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ITALY legend Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillachi’s daughter revealed he apologised to her on his death bed.
The Italia ’90 World Cup hero passed away aged 59 on Wednesday following a battle with colon cancer.
Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillachi apologised to his daughter on his deathbed[/caption]
The Italy legend passed away on Wednesday[/caption]
Thousands of fans gathered in Palermo for his funeral and his coffin was draped in scarves and football shirts.
Schillachi’s daughter Jessica described him as a “hero” and recalled the last few months they spent together, with the former striker diagnosed in 2022.
She told Tuttosport: “Three days ago, as my brother Mattia and I were at his bedside, we told him that TV operators were already outside of the hospital”, she said.
“He told us: ‘I only care about you’. And he said he was sorry for not being present all the times he would’ve wished, and we would’ve wished.”
Jessica also discussed the best memories she shared with her father and a trip she took with him in the summer.
She continued: “We talked, we also joked until it was possible. We recalled the best moments in our lives, the ones you’ll never forget, that even death won’t be able to take away from me.
“He was a hero in his own way, but he was just a father to me.
“I took some days off in July to stay with my dad. We went to Isola delle Femmine; he would’ve wanted to take me on a boat trip, but he was already very tired.
“We settled for a bath in the sea and a fish lunch; it was wonderful. You could see he was struggling when he took me back to the airport.
“The situation got worse in the last days: my dad started to play a game he knew he would lose.
“But he played it until the end, not thinking about him but about all the people he loved, and he’ll keep loving wherever he is now.”
Schillaci represented Italian giants Juventus and Inter Milan throughout his career, but saw his most memorable moments happen in the famous blue of the Italian national team.
His six goals saw him beat footballing legend Diego Maradona to the trophy as Italy finished third in their home tournament.
Schillaci, who was virtually unknown outside of Italy prior to the tournament, soon became a household name after netting against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Uruguay, the Republic of Ireland and Argentina.
While he also denied England a third-place finish after helping Italy beat the Three Lions in the tournament’s third-place playoff match in Bari.
Schillaci retired in 1997, hanging up his boots at Japanese club Jubilo Iwata.
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Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of raping five women and sexually assaulting others[/caption]
The Egyptian billionaire passed away last year aged 94[/caption]
Gemma, who worked as one of Fayed’s personal assistants, spoke out in the investigation[/caption]
The women, who worked at Harrods from the late 1980s to 2000s, claim assaults were carried out at the company’s offices, in Fayed’s London apartment, or on foreign trips often in Paris at the Ritz hotel.
The new documentary – called Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods – hears claims that the store not only failed to intervene but also helped cover up allegations against Al Fayed.
Here we take a look at the seven biggest bombshells….
Royal warning
The Queen was reportedly warned about Al Fayed[/caption]
The late Queen was warned Mohamed Al Fayed was a “dirty old man” with a reputation as a “salacious attacker of women”, a former royal protection head has claimed.
Her Majesty was reportedly told about Al Fayed by Scotland Yard’s Dai Davies, before the majority of his allegations surfaced this week.
Davies said he had warned Queen Elizabeth about Mr Al Fayed’s reputation in the 1990s, due to his association with the late Princess Diana.
He told the Daily Mail: “He had a salacious reputation. There were concerns about his persona as a dirty old man.
“There were allegations I was aware of that Al Fayed had sexually assaulted women then paid them off. I had no compunction in warning the Queen about this individual.
“I advised the Queen, through Lord Fellowes [her private secretary], not to let the boys [Prince William and Prince Harry] go away on holiday with him because of the allegations I was aware of – that he was a salacious attacker of women.
“[Fellowes] said to me: ‘The Palace is aware, Mr Davies.’”
Cops ‘wiped evidence’
More than 20 former workers have accused Al Fayed, whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside girlfriend Princess Diana, of sex abuse.
The new BBC documentary claims Al Fayed deployed an army of aides to silence his alleged victims and used his power and wealth to evade justice.
He allegedly deployed Harrods staff, a former senior Met Police officer, lawyers and PR agents to threaten his victims who he spied on using hidden cameras and bugging equipment.
One woman named Ellie was 15 when she told police in 2008 Al Fayed groped and tried to kiss her in Harrods.
She claims the case was dropped after details were leaked by the Met Police who allegedly wiped evidence from her phone.
Al Fayed allegedly used head of security John Macnamara to threaten women who made sex claims.
The former Met Police chief superintendent was described as a “nasty piece of work” by an ex-Harrods colleague who said “He would use his power as an ex-copper. I know Macnamara knocked on someone’s door and threatened a girl.”
It is understood three women came forward to the Met in 2018, 2021 and 2023, but the CPS was never asked to consider charges.
Paris ‘sex abuse’ mansion
Al Fayed was a former resident of the Villa Windsor in Bois de Boulogne near Paris, France[/caption]
Al Fayed has also been accused of using a royal mansion featured in The Crown to rape and sexually assault victims.
The lavish 14-room mansion was the home of post-abdication King Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson and recently featured on The Crown’s third season.
One woman named Gemma – who worked as one of his personal assistants between 2007 and 2009 – has claimed Al Fayed raped her at the historic Parisian villa.
Gemma described waking up to find him attempting to get into bed with her, adding: “I told him, ‘No, I don’t want you to'”.
She added: “I was kind of face down on the bed and he just pressed himself on me.”
Speaking to the BBC, Sophia, who worked as his personal assistant from 1988 to 1991, said “vile” Al Fayed tried to rape her more than once with one of those attempts taking place at the Villa Windsor.
‘Forced’ health checks
Sophia also worked as Al Fayed’s assistant and claims he tried to rape her more than once[/caption]
Al Fayed also allegedly forced staff to take sexual health tests before he sexually assaulted them.
Women recruited in their teens and early twenties to work as personal assistants in Al Fayed’s private office claimed that they were required by Wendy Snell, Harrods’s corporate GP, to undertake medicals that included intimate examinations.
Former staff claimed that the medical checkups were advertised as “an extra perk of the job” and because Al Fayed’s son Dodi “had a low immune system”.
However, they later made the harrowing discovery that it was preparing them for sexual abuse by Al Fayed, who was obsessed with hygiene.
One woman claimed she had a smear test and a doctor checked her ovaries.
“My results were sent directly to the chairman so quickly that by the time I had got back to my desk, he knew the results,” she alleged.
Harrods ‘cover up’
The Harrods department store in central London[/caption]
The new BBC documentary heard claims that the store not only failed to intervene but also helped cover up allegations against the Egyptian billionaire.
Bruce Drummond, a barrister from a legal team representing a number of the women, said: “The spider’s web of corruption and abuse in this company was unbelievable and very dark.”
However, Harrods’ current owners said they were “utterly appalled” by the allegations, stressing the company today is “very different”.
A Harrods human resources manager between 1990 and 1994 said she was ordered by Al Fayed’s senior assistant to find attractive young sales assistants he had seen in the store and send them to his office.
Tony Leeming, a department manager, admitted: “It was well known and everyone knew about it and it was a joke.”
Of the 13 women the BBC spoke to, four say Al Fayed raped them, and all said they felt intimidated by a culture of fear at Harrods.
Over 100 victims
Mohamed Al Fayed’s alleged abuse of women “combined the worst of Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein“, a lawyer has said.