Early Life

Dodi was born on 15 April 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt. His real name was Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Maneim Fayed. It means column or pillar, as in “Pillar of Faith”. When he was little he couldn’t say his name properly. It came out as Dodi. And so, Dodi it stayed.

Although his parents divorced and he lived with his father, he remained close to his mother, and her untimely death from cancer at a comparatively young age was a great blow to Dodi.  

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