Al Fayed, who died last year aged 94, was accused by more than 20 women of sexual assault in a BBC documentary and podcast in September.
Since then, more women have come forward with allegations of assault, harassment and rape over a period of more than thirty years when they were his employees.
Harrods previously told the BBC that it was in the process of settling more than 250 claims for compensation brought by victims of Al Fayed. The luxury department store has a compensation scheme for ex-employees who say they were attacked by Al Fayed, which is separate from the legal case against it.
On Thursday, the Justice for Harrods Survivors group, who represent some of the accusers of the former Harrods boss, said its first letter of claim had been sent to the department store, calling it the “beginning of the formal legal process”.
The group said that most of the 421 claims were connected to Harrods, but others related to incidents at Fulham FC and the Ritz Paris hotel, which Al Fayed also owned at the time of the alleged attacks.
The survivors involved come from the UK, America, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia, the lawyers said.
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