Mohamed Al Fayed’s daughter has been charged after allegedly asking her bodyguards to steal her brother’s £1,900 iPhone at the former Harrod’s owner’s home counties estate.
Camilla Fayed, 39, her Syrian businessman husband, Mohamed Esreb, 43, and their bodyguards, Matthew Littlewood, 34, and Andrew Bott, 51, are accused of conspiring to steal the phone from Omar Fayed, 36.
The theft allegedly happened in the gym at Barrow Green Court, the family’s estate in Oxted, Surrey, in May 2020.
All four defendants were charged with robbery in December last year after a long police investigation. All have been released on bail.
After she sold her fashion label to House of Fraser in 2017, Camilla Fayed opened Farmacy, a vegan restaurant in Notting Hill visited by Madonna and Stella McCartney.
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The family moved from a multimillion-dollar flat on Park Lane to a large farm in Kent, near her late father’s estate, according to the Evening Standard.
A judge previously urged the siblings to settle their feud rather than taking it through the courts. She told them: “It would serve the relationships between the individuals to resolve matters privately.”
Omar Fayed has previously claimed the confrontation over the iPhone was driven by a desire to access messages relating to other disputes. Fayed’s husband said that he had been wrongly dubbed a “spy” by Omar.
Mohamed Al-Fayed died at the age of 94 last August after a heart attack. He was interred next to his son, Dodi, in a mausoleum on the Oxted estate’s grounds.
His second wife Heini Wathén is in the process of splitting an inherited property empire that includes apartments in Hyde Park, a Scottish castle, and buildings in New York between his four children.
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The Paris Ritz alone may be worth £500 million, and the Oxted estate, complete with a pool, stables and 200 acres of land, could fetch up to £100 million.