For the past week the spotlight in the Mohamed Al Fayed scandal has been on the women who claim they were assaulted and raped by him while employed in ­London. Now, the focus is turning to Paris.

Kristina Svensson, who worked at the tycoon’s ­prestigious hotel the Ritz, will be the first ­victim to file a complaint in France. She was hired to be Al Fayed’s ­Executive Assistant at the Paris Ritz in June 1998 – only nine months after Princess Diana died, alongside her lover Al Fayed’s son Dodi, in a car crash. The couple had spent their last hours dining together at the Ritz.

Yet, telling her full story for the first time, Kristina reveals how although Al Fayed was devastated by the loss of his son, his grief didn’t stop his ‘violent’ and ­‘perverted’ attacks.

‘He was raping and assaulting young women and girls even in his darkest hour. All he could think about was sex,’ Kristina tells me today. ‘He was an absolute pervert, committing criminal acts against women on a regular basis.’

Now a French lawyer is calling for victims abused by Al Fayed at the Paris Ritz, his Paris house, at his property in St Tropez, as well as on his yacht, to come forward.
Anne-Claire Le Jeune is ­preparing to ask the Paris prosecution service to open a preliminary investigation into Al Fayed’s activities in France along with possible co-conspirators, enablers and other perpetrators who are still alive.

‘We need to know if there were people working with Al Fayed in France who knew about the abuses and kept silent,’ she told the Mail. ‘It is important to have a full investigation.’

More than 150 victims have so far come forward in the UK, ­telling shocking stories of abuse and rape – and Kristina’s story has chilling similarities.

Of Swedish-American heritage, she was 30, blonde and blue-eyed, when hired to work at the Paris Ritz by the President of the hotel.

For the first few weeks she did not meet Al Fayed himself – but a large part of her job involved processing information related to Diana and Dodi’s death, fielding calls from investigators, lawyers, journalists and even psychics.

Living across from Pont de l’Alma, where the tragic accident took place, she remembers hearing the crash and subsequent police sirens in August 1997.

(Armani)

Sam Taylor-Johnson cuddled up to her chiseled husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, in a new photo of the pair on vacation together.

Aaron, 34, shared the image in an Instagram carousel on Tuesday, which showed him and Sam, 57, smiling on a cliff in front of the ocean. His wife of 12 years proudly held onto him as he smiled shirtless next to her with his washboard abs on full display.

The “Fall Guy” actor — who seemingly began growing his beard back after shaving it off this summer — wore nothing but black swim trunks, while Sam rocked a brown and white bikini top and cut-off shorts paired with brown sandals.
Completing the picturesque photo was a faint rainbow to their left.

Aaron also shamelessly showed off his rock-hard abs in another snapshot of himself in which he stood wearing printed shorts while smoking a cigarette. The couple flaunted their athleticism in other pictures, as one depicted Aaron hopping high into the air, while another showed Sam doing a cartwheel.

(Armani)

The View host Whoopi Goldberg has defended Taylor Swift and ordered Kansas City Chief fans to ‘shut up’ after they blamed the singer for her boyfriend’s sluggish start to the NFL season.

Kelce played a peripheral role again on Sunday night as the Kansas City Chiefs extended their perfect start to the season to 3-0 with a 22-17 win over the Atlanta Falcons.

The 34-year-old, whose girlfriend missed a game for the first time this season, was caught by TV cameras looking particularly miserable on the sideline in a clip which went viral.

Some football fans have been quick to accuse Swift of ‘taking his mind off the game,’ but Goldberg, 68, was having none of it and fumed during Tuesday’s episode of the daytime show: ‘Grow up, y’all! Grow up! Stop putting this on her. Your team is fine, your team is doing well. Shut up!’

The Sister Act star continued: ‘It’s insane. Listen, this is a guy whose doing movies now, he’s doing television commercials, he’s doing all kinds of stuff. He might have been a little busy, and maybe he’s not 12 anymore, okay? He’s still a viable player….’
Goldberg also claimed it was Donald Trump supporters who are most annoyed and added: ‘I’m blaming MAGA. I think it’s them because they’re mad she is not supporting you-know-who. They’re putting all of this on her!’ referring to the singer’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election.

Sunny Hostin was quick to agree and said: ‘I love your point, though. It’s probably the crazy MAGA people that are upset about this,’ as Goldberg fired back: ‘Yeah, because why else would this suddenly be an issue?’

Defending the Cruel Summer hitmaker, she then claimed: ‘And she’s also busy! Sorry y’all, she’s not thinking about him!’ before Alyssa Farah Griffin shared her thoughts.

Griffin, 35, said: ‘If I may put on my sports analyst hat… as I understand it, football is a team sport, so just because he’s not making touchdowns doesn’t mean he’s not contributing to the success of the team. They’re currently undefeated this season and once again just the classic blaming a woman for a man….

‘She can’t magically affect his game, and the thing I do love about this relationship and why I root for it, they support each other. He went to more than half a dozen of her international shows.

‘She showed up, she flew back from the Tokyo “Eras” tour, took a 12-hour flight to be at the Super Bowl, one of the best signs of love is showing up for the other person,’ Griffin added.

Joy Behar chimed in and commented: ‘Remember when Bill Clinton had his scandal after Hillary, they blamed her. This goes back to the Garden of Eden, but it’s like as old as the hills, it’s biblical to blame the woman and here we go again.’

She then turned to Goldberg and added: ‘But I think you’re right, I think it’s that group.’
Goldberg was referring to Swift’s decision to endorse Harris, and not Trump, in the upcoming US presidential election, which will take place on November 5.

On September 10, the popstar took to Instagram and shared a photo of herself cuddling her pet and referred to herself as a ‘childless cat lady’ in a clear dig to comments made by JD Vance.

Swift said in her lengthy post that that she was disturbed by false reports she had endorsed Trump.
‘I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,’ she wrote.

(Armani)