Part 2: A.K.A || Tracking Down The Fake (Dodi) Fayed
How One Imposter Managed to Fool Duran Duran, Jodie Foster, And My Friend Pete B.
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Lying Low In The Yukon
In May 1996, after The Toronto Sun ran a story detailing the impersonations, Yehia Sead fled Toronto in a Cadillac rented by a travel agent he had been dating.
The article wasn’t flattering:
“The fake Fayed has offered film parts to Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields, dated stars of The Phantom of the Opera and broken off relationships with singers. ... He faces new charges of fraud across America after failing to pay hotel bills and return hire cars.”
“Sead boasted that he had sex with several film stars and could have any woman he wanted. He told Layla Jazrawy, one of the women he was trying to seduce: "You're no Princess Diana. How could you not want me? You don't know what you're missing".
Next, I tracked Yehia in the Yukon. Yehia left behind his day planner, and I scoured and called all the numbers. Anyone familiar with my work knows I am thorough and like timelines.
Keeping a low profile, Yehia Sead claimed to be a doctor, telling an 18-year-old waitress in a Whitehorse lounge that he had given up medicine for photography.
"He said he knew all the right people in Hollywood," the waitress told me.
Yehia persuaded the young woman to pose, sometimes in the nude, for photographs and cried about his manipulative and neglectful father. From Whitehorse, Yehia returned east to Montreal and, once again, found a friend who could give him legitimacy. Enter Peter B.
Channels Of Discovery
Dodi al-Fayed finally got a good look at Yehia in a Toronto courtroom in 1997. A few months away from his doomed romance with Princess Diana, Dodi al-Fayed was the star prosecution witness at Yehia Sead's trial.
“By impersonating me, Sead has caused immeasurable damage to my good name, my reputation, my family, and Harrods, as well as potential commercial damage to my business interests,” Dodi Fayed said on the stand.
Although I had moved to Los Angeles by then, I was doing an internship at Discovery Channel in Toronto for three months. On my birthday of that year — Jan 15th,1997 — Diana, Princess of Wales would call for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK. I would track down Dr. Ian Wilmut, who created the genetically engineered lamb named Dolly. And as fate would have it, I would cover the trial of Dodi Vs. Dodi, which set a precedent for impersonation in Canada.
I conducted so much research on Yehia that the RCMP and the imposter’s lawyer asked me for my help. I had minored in psychology and, after consulting the DMS4, advised the attorney he was exhibiting characteristics of histrionic and borderline personality disorder. I also shared all my research with the RCMP.
It was a great moment when the real Dodi Fayed walked into the court.