The managing director of Harrods says the London department store is “deeply sorry” for failing employees who say they were sexually assaulted by late owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

Multiple former employees told the BBC they had been raped or sexually assaulted by the billionaire businessman, who died last year.

The legal team representing the alleged victims of the former owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed, say the late billionaire was a “monster” whose crimes were “enabled” by the high-end department store.

Harrods "failed" its staff by not dealing with Mohamed Al Fayed's "toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct" the department store's managing director has said.

Ward is asking current and former Harrods colleagues to report further incidents of sexual abuse as the store conducts an independent review of multiple allegations against the late Mohamed Al Fayed.

The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. At a press briefing in London on Friday-- in the wake of a BBC documentary "Al-Fayed: Predator At Harrods,"-- lawyers representing some of the women said they were victims of "systematic abuse" over 25 years "within the knowledge of Harrods,

More than 20 former Harrods employees accused Al Fayed—who died last year at age 94—of sexual assault, rape and violence between the late 1980s and 2000s in interviews with the BBC, which documented the allegations in a new documentary, “Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods.”

Harrods apologized to its employees on Thursday over the late owner Mohamed Al Fayed's alleged sexual abuse. The London department store was bought by Al Fayed, an Egypt-born businessman, in the mid-1980s.

Victims told to make contact with detectives as Harrods' current chief defends knowing about Al-Fayed's industrial depravity.