Unfortunately, the love story between Dodi and Diana was cut short by the tragic 1997 car accident that took both their lives.
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But what exactly happened between Fayed and his former fiancée, and where is she in 2023?
Kelly Fisher’s background
As per Time, Fisher is originally from Kentucky and moved to Canada at the age of eight with her father, a company VP. She started modelling at 16 in Toronto and was featured in magazines like Elle, Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Fisher also collaborated with top fashion brands like Armani, Victoria’s Secret and Calvin Klein.
How did Kelly Fisher meet Dodi Fayed?
A then-30-year-old Fisher was reportedly holidaying in Paris when she met Fayed, who was 11 years her senior, as per the New York Post. They apparently hit it off instantly, and Fisher mentioned that the Egyptian billionaire proposed to her with a sparkling sapphire and diamond engagement ring merely eight months into their relationship, according to the same source.
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When did Princess Diana come into the picture?
According to the New York Post, Fisher claimed that she and Fayed planned to get married on August 9, 1997. However, one month before their scheduled wedding, Fayed’s father Mohamed invited Princess Diana and her two sons, young Prince William and Prince Harry, aboard his yacht, the Jonikal. Soon after, British media published photos of Fayed and Diana kissing on the yacht.
The lawsuit
When Fisher discovered the apparent affair between her then-fiancé and “the most beautiful woman in the world”, as her character describes Diana in the Netflix show, she understandably felt upset.
According to Time, she held a press conference in Beverly Hills, California, during which her lawyer Gloria Allred announced a lawsuit against Fayed for breach of marital contract. Allred claimed that Fayed persuaded Fisher to reduce her modelling commitments and spend more time with him, supposedly offering US$500,000 as an incentive. Fisher stated she received only US$60,000, and the US$200,000 check she received bounced. At that time, Fayed denied the engagement but admitted to knowing Fisher.
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Dropping the charges
After receiving news of Dodi and Diana’s death, Fisher dropped the charges. She said she didn’t regret filing the original complaint, but “voluntarily chose” to let it go “out of respect for the tragedy, and tremendous loss the Fayed family has suffered”, per Time.
Is Kelly Fisher married?
Fisher found love again with Mikhail Movshina, a pilot she met in the Central African Republic in 2007, per British media. The couple lived together in Paris and the French Alps, before moving to Aiken, South California, where they currently live. They welcomed daughter Alexandra Grace together in 2011.
She now works as a property developer and has remained under the radar and away from the spotlight for years. In an interview with Hilton Head Monthly, she said she took inspiration from Thailand to design her family home on Hilton Head Island. “It reminded me of a little place I stayed at in Thailand for a month,” she told the publication in 2017. “The windows were amazing and I saw the possibilities.”
What has Kelly Fisher said in recent years?
The former model previously opened up about the impact everything had on her, per British media, stating, “You go in the course of three weeks from being engaged to Dodi to being left for the most famous, gorgeous woman in the world, to them all dying.
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“In three weeks. That was just terrible. I was pretty young. It was pretty bad,” she shared. She said that when Mohamed (who died in September) denied that his son had ever been engaged to her, and accused her of being a “gold-digger”, it only made her pain worse, per the same source. “He was talking about the lawsuit but I had stopped working – I put my life on hold,” she added.
Fisher reportedly revealed that she has kept Fayed’s engagement ring as a keepsake of their time together. She also expressed empathy for Prince William and Prince Harry, acknowledging the loss of their mother at a young age. “I have a daughter now and cannot imagine what would have happened if I was suddenly gone. I can’t imagine what those boys must have felt,” she is quoted as saying.
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