{{Short description|Environmentalist and publisher}} {{for|the Egyptian footballer|Omar Fayed (footballer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Omar Fayed | native_name = {{nobold|عُمَر الْفَايِد}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = | birth_name = Omar Alexander Mohamed Al-Fayed | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987|10}} | birth_place = London, England | education = ACS International Schools | occupation = Environmentalist, publisher | citizenship = Finnish<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.seiska.fi/ulkomaat/puolisuomalaiset-miljardiperijat-tallaisia-ovat-prinsessa-dianan-kanssa-kuolleen-dodi-al-fayedin-sisarukset/1202987 |title=Puolisuomalaiset miljardiperijät! Tällaisia ovat prinsessa Dianan kanssa kuolleen Dodi al-Fayedin sisarukset |last=Aaltonen |first=Juha |date=28 November 2023 |website=Seiska |language=fi |access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref> | father = Mohamed Al-Fayed | mother = Heini Wathén | relatives = 5 siblings, including Dodi Fayed (half-brother) }}
'''Omar Alexander Mohamed Al-Fayed''' ({{langx|arz|عمر الكسندر محمد الفايد}}; born October 1987)<ref name="Robinson">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/nov/19/theobserver.observerbusiness3|title=Omar, 19, joins Harrods board|last=Robinson|first=James|date=19 November 2006|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Omar Alexander Mohamed Al-Fayed personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK|website=Companies House|access-date=8 June 2024|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/-4Whl-c-rywVEemSB0_8tBe21OY/appointments}}</ref> is a British-born Finnish-Egyptian environmentalist and publisher.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/dec/03/theobserver.observerbusiness12 |title=Fayed and Harrods: keep it in the family? |website=The Guardian |date=3 December 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://camdennewjournal.com/article/untold-stories-in-the-death-of-a-princess |title=Untold stories in the death of a princess |website=camdennewjournal.com |publisher=Camden New Journal |date=31 August 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/connect/small-business/omar-fayed-environmental-impact-as-important-as-business-bottom-line/ |title=Omar Fayed: Environmental impact as important as the bottom line |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=3 April 2017 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |last1=Isaac |first1=Anna }}</ref> He is CEO of ESTEE (Earth Space Technical Ecosystem Enterprises), based in Switzerland and Britain, that advocates human space exploration, space colonization, and sustainable human development within the biosphere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://est2e.com/about/|title=ABOUT – ESTEE|website=est2e.com|language=en-US|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=2 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902073317/https://est2e.com/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is co-founder and CEO of EarthX,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://earthx.com/team.html|title=Team|website=earthx.com|language=|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=2 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902073300/https://www.earthx.com/team.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> a data visualization and mapping company based on NASA’s World Wind Project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://earthx.com/our-history.html|title=Our-History|website=earthx.com|language=|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708032529/https://earthx.com/our-history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is chairman of Synergetic Press based in New Mexico, and a fellow of the Institute of Ecotechnics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.synergeticpress.com/our-team/|title=Our Team - Synergetic Press {{!}} Regenerating People and the Planet|work=Synergetic Press {{!}} Regenerating People and the Planet|access-date=5 November 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
Fayed was ranked 75 in ''Arabian Business'' magazine's "Power 100" list in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.arabianbusiness.com/power-100-2009/list?itemid=155865|title=Power 100 - Omar Al Fayed|work=ArabianBusiness.com|access-date=5 November 2018|language=en}}</ref>
== Early life == Omar Fayed was born in London, England, to Finnish model Heini Wathén and Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3233740/meet-mohamed-al-fayeds-environmentalist-son-omar-fayed-he-admires-elon-musk-and-king-charles |title=Meet Mohamed Al-Fayed’s environmentalist son, Omar Fayed: he admires Elon Musk and King Charles, remembers Princes William and Harry as 'delightful' – and 'never wanted to be Mr. Harrods' |last=Bradley |first=Faye |date=8 September 2023 |website=South China Morning Post |access-date=9 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907211544/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3233740/meet-mohamed-al-fayeds-environmentalist-son-omar-fayed-he-admires-elon-musk-and-king-charles |archive-date=7 September 2023}}</ref>{{r|is-1}} Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed was his half-brother, who died in a car crash in Paris at the end of August 1997.<ref name="is-1">{{Cite web |url=https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000009195055.html |title=Suomalainen Heini päätyi keskelle uskomattoman rikkaan egyptiläissuvun elämää – tällaista salaperäisen Al-Fayedin perheen luksusarki on |last=Kuuskoski |first=Kaisla |date=13 November 2022 |website=Ilta-Sanomat |language=fi |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>
== Career == Fayed started in business as a teenager trading commodities. In 2006, aged 19, he was appointed to the Harrods board and in ten subsidiary companies including Fulham F.C. and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, all companies owned by his father.<ref name="Robinson"/> Fayed was expected to take over as chairman of Harrods,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.arabianbusiness.com/30-under-30-151844.html?itemid=151851|title=30 Under 30 - Omar Al Fayed|work=ArabianBusiness.com|access-date=5 November 2018|language=en}}</ref> however he resigned in 2009 to pursue his studies for an MBA.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/5664705/Omar-Fayed-leaves-Harrods.html|title=Omar Fayed leaves Harrods|last=Sibun|first=Jonathan|date=27 June 2009|access-date=9 November 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> He expressed a desire to focus on environmental entrepreneurship instead, commenting in an interview, "that consumerist culture wasn’t doing anything positive for the future of humanity."<ref name="Isaac 2018" /> His father Mohamed Al-Fayed, subsequently sold Harrods in 2010,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/c2961a26-bd36-11df-954b-00144feab49a|title=Farewell Fayed|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|access-date=9 November 2018}}</ref> to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Qatar, for £1.5 billion ($2.3 billion).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8669657.stm|title=Al Fayed sells off Harrods store|date=8 May 2010|access-date=9 November 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref>
Fayed is chairman of Biotecture, a provider of modular green wall systems,<ref name="Isaac 2018">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/connect/small-business/omar-fayed-environmental-impact-as-important-as-business-bottom-line/|title=Omar Fayed: 'I didn't want to become Mr Harrods'|last=Isaac|first=Anna|date=3 April 2017|work=The Telegraph|access-date=5 November 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> that built large-scale living walls for the Walkie Talkie skyscraper in the City of London, and the Veolia recycling and energy recovery facility in Leeds. In 2014, he founded Living City, an initiative to connect and consult green enterprises and government projects.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hortweek.com/biotecture-reports-huge-expansion-middle-east/landscape/article/1336780|title=Biotecture reports "huge" expansion in the Middle East|access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref> He was a director of the Ritz Hotel Paris.
Fayed was executive producer for the 2015 documentary film ''The Sunshine Makers'', about the manufacture of the psychedelic compound LSD in the 1960s.<ref>{{IMDb name|8696715|Omar Fayed}}</ref>
== Family feud == Omar Fayed was fifth in line of succession in inheriting his father Mohamed Al-Fayed's £1.7 billion ($2 billion) fortune, who died 30 August 2023. His mother, a Finnish model, Heini Wathén, and two elder sisters and one older brother preceded him in the succession order.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Miguel |first=Rafa de |date=2023-09-26 |title=The battle for Mohamed Al-Fayed’s inheritance begins |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-25/the-battle-for-mohamed-al-fayeds-inheritance-begins.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=EL PAÍS English |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Maxine |title=Mohamed al-Fayed’s warring kids to battle it out over his billions |url=https://www.news24.com/you/news/international/mohamed-al-fayeds-warring-kids-to-battle-it-out-over-his-billions-20230904 |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=You |language=en-US}}</ref> However, at the time of his father's death he was engulfed in a high profile power struggle against his mother and siblings, in an attempt to take control of his deceased father's estate.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Strick |first=Katie |date=2023-09-06 |title=Inside the ‘Succession-style’ bitter battle for Mohamed Al-Fayed’s billions |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/mohamed-al-fayed-family-children-billions-fortune-war-succession-b1104581.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Keogh |first=Robert Watts, Glen |date=2024-06-16 |title=What will happen to Mohamed Al Fayed’s £1.7bn fortune? |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/what-will-happen-to-mohamed-al-fayeds-1-7bn-fortune-mkdjq06jm |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=The Times|language=en}}</ref>
A couple of years prior to his father's death, Omar Fayed brought charges against his elder sister Camilla Al-Fayed and her husband, Mohamad Esreb, in Guildford Crown Court on 3 May 2021. Omar claimed his elder sister, brother-in-law and two of their bodyguards, including Matthew Littlewood, a decorated Afghanistan war veteran, stole his mobile phone and assaulted him at his father's country mansion in Oxted, Surrey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mohamed al Fayed's daughter pleads not guilty to robbing her brother's phone at family home gym |url=https://news.sky.com/story/mohamed-al-fayeds-daughter-pleads-not-guilty-to-robbing-her-brothers-phone-at-family-home-gym-13128130 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref>
Camilla Al-Fayed and all others accused pleaded not guilty to the charges.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-03 |title=Late Harrods owner's daughter pleads not guilty to robbery charge |url=https://www.bbc.com/articles/c51ng00llw3o |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC Website |language=en-GB}}</ref> In the high profile court case, Omar had claimed that he was physically attacked by his brother-in-law in the incident, while Camilla denying charges told the court Omar was intoxicated at the time and a "heavy drug user". Omar Fayed had claimed £100,000 in damages from his sister for the incident,<ref name=":1" /> however in August 2021, the case was adjourned by the judge, who instructed Omar Fayed to instead solve the dispute privately, in order to avoid an expensive and embarrassing High Court battle.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kirk |first=Tristan |date=2021-08-04 |title=Sort your family row out privately, judge tells feuding Fayeds |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mohamed-fayed-children-omar-camilla-fued-judge-harrods-b947341.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>
In a 2022 interview in Tatler, re-published concurrently following his father's death, Omar had commented that "It’s sad and super silly what is going on with Camilla. A classic trustafarian tragedy,"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lawler |first=Danielle |date=2022-11-14 |title=When Omar Fayed – son of the late Mohamed Al Fayed – spoke to Tatler about royalty, family and his stratospheric ambitions |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/dodi-fayeds-half-brother-omar-talks-royalty-family-and-his-stratospheric-ambitions |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref> in regards to the incident in court and had further believed himself to be a victim of "a struggle of power between brothers."<ref name=":0" />
Omar Fayed had listed his home in London for sale in July 2022 for an asking price of £5 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jessel |first=Ella |date=2022-07-27 |title=Omar Fayed selling £5m Primrose Hill home with secret entrance to famous square |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/celebrity-homes/omar-fayed-selling-ps5-million-primrose-hill-home-on-mews-where-tina-turner-and-david-bowie-recorded-b1014981.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://est2e.com Earth Space Technical Ecosystem Enterprises Website] *[http://www.livinggreencity.com Living City Website] *[https://twitter.com/mromarfayed?lang=en Omar Fayed on Twitter] *{{IMDb name|8696715|Omar Fayed}} *[https://twitter.com/punchcartoons?lang=en Punch magazine on Twitter]
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