Al Fayed owned by Al Fayed has ‘drip roofs and noisy lifts’, BBC revealed

The BBC has found an eight-year legal battle with companies owned by the late Mohammad Al Fayed, the owner of a multi-silver pound penthouse at the park lane in Central London,, the BBC.

The dispute began as a legal agreement on a legal agreement related to the establishment of a new lift over 20 years ago.

Since then, it has increased in a row, with a noisy lift “malicious” at night to disturb the sleeping roofs, bottled renewal and claim that the penthouse owner was “malicious” at night.

Lawyers from both sides refused to comment.

Row on the exclusive mefare address – Documents in the High Court filing – the way Mohammad Al Fayed’s empire was treated with some commercial behavior shines on it, which was in years before dying.

Throughout his life, he was known for his combative approach, often resorting to legal action to resolve disagreements.

The center of the dispute is owned by luxury penthouse Alan and Roslen Hodson. It is a property developer whose company has built thousands of houses in South-East England.

It is on the top floor of the 55 park lane, known as the “Hyde Park Niwas”, a major apartment building in a prominent place – right next to the exclusive Dorchester Hotel.

The building’s website “promises the atmosphere of warm and calm with London’s best. A four -bedroom apartment is currently on sale for £ 8.5m.

In 2003, on Sunday, Mail described the address as a “sensational” scene and “marble entrance finger” in the Hyde Park. [that] to be supposed “.

However, walking behind the building provides a different impression. Some such premium spaces may consider it slightly shabby, with paint paint and a missing sign above the door.

Hyde Park Niwas is owned by the Faid family since the 1980s, through the company Prests Properties (PP), located in Lechenstein.

According to the accounts of a subsidiary filed in the UK, it has been organized for “Mohammad Al Fayed’s property and family’s benefits” for the property and family gains of “Mohammad Al Fayed”. Al Fayed’s widow Henny Wathane-Fiyed is a director of this subsidiary, called Hyde Park Residence Limited, who manages some apartments.

Al Fayed’s son Dodi, who was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana in 1997, was allegedly a flat there.

When Mohammad Al Fayed had ownership of Harrods, they sometimes allowed managers and directors to stay in the block, and the neighboring building, 60 park lanes, which they also had.

In 2024, BBC spoke to 13 women Who said that he sexually assaulted him in 60 park lanes. Four of them said that he was raped.

According to the court documents viewed by the BBC, Mr. Hodson emerged the first issue soon after purchasing the penthouse in 2004.

Mr. Hodson made a widespread improvement in the apartment when he went in – modifying the kitchen, upgrading the roofs of the roofs, and putting it in a new lift so that they would not have to use the stairs flight to reach the property.

Mr. Hodson claimed that he was not honored by PP in Lichenstein by updating his lease.

Like many large buildings, the ownership of the Hyde Park Niwas is complex.

The building is the freeholder Grosvenner Estate, which has broader land in Central London. The Al Fayed family company PP has the right to use it for the next 110 years.

This leasehold system, although time-limit, is considered a form of ownership.

Grosvenner should have been asked to allow before starting these reforms. But permission was not requested – although it agreed to allow the payment of £ 100,000 in 2006, which was paid by reputation properties.

Then, in 2014, Mr. Hodson began to disturb the noise from two lifts of buildings. Despite his complaints, the noise deteriorated, arguing, in 2015, the building managers agreed to suspend the use of one of the night -long lifts.

And in 2016, both sides fell forward. PP demanded that Mr. Hodson contributed £ 80,000 for the money paid to Groswner Estate a few years ago.

Next year, Hodson took PP and two other fed-controlled companies to the High Court, which asks for a list of complaints and is a matter of losses paid.

Amid issues, Mr. Hodson said he wanted to expand the flat connecting a floor. He had spent £ 180,000 to develop a plan, but PP denied permission to make it, initially despite encouraging the plan – his lawyers claimed.

PP lawyers argued that the company had not allowed Mr. Hodson to expand its assets. He said that, as a property developer, they should know that they would not get permission without paying PP, as a landlord, millions of pounds.

Mr. Hodson said that as a result of the dispute, PP allowed people to start using a noise lift again, harassing his sleep, which he thought was a “malicious and intentional” response to a letter of complaint. He said that one night the lift was used 23 times between midnight and 02:00.

He also complained of poor repair work, which he said that he left him with a drip roof and damaged his roof roofs.

The dispute is still not resolved. In March this year, another court was filed from Mr. Hodson, claiming that “the roof is still leaking. The lift is still making excessive noise … the corridors and the lobby have never ended after renewal.”

The lawyers for PP argue in response that the noise from the lift is on the “acceptable levels” and denies that it was resumed in a malicious manner. They leak water, but say their customers have taken all the appropriate steps to stop it.

PP is competing with £ 344,000 in ground rent, as well as another £ 286,000 interest and cost.

Yoga is trivial compared to Mohammad Al Fayed’s wealth, estimated at £ 1.7bn at the time of his death. And it is notable that such a dispute should have been dragged for so long.

But Al Fayed was known for giving inches to those with whom he fell out – and this approach continues even after his death.

Alan Hodson, Henie Wathane-Fiyed, PP, and Grosvenner Estate refused to comment.