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60 MINUTES SPECIAL REPORT
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, AT 8.45PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
HORROR AT HARRODS
The crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein are well known. The two rich and powerful men inflicted horrendous abuse on young and vulnerable women who had had the misfortune of entering their orbits, both voluntarily and not. Now however a new name can be added to this roll call of despicable abusers. Mohamed Al Fayed. Until now he’s been better known as the father of Dodi, who died alongside Princess Diana in 1997. At the time, Al Fayed senior revelled in baseless conspiracy theories that Dodi and Diana were murdered at the behest of the Royal Family. What wasn’t known back then though was that Al Fayed, the formidable billionaire owner of department store Harrods, was a serial sexual predator. And as Tara Brown reports in a special edition of 60 MINUTES, among the hundreds of women he preyed on there were at least 14 Australians.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Anne Worthington
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THIS WEEK ON 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY, MARCH 16, AT 8.40PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
BUILDING WORSE
Eight months ago, in a series of award-winning stories, 60 MINUTES, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, exposed endemic corruption and criminality at Australia’s most powerful construction union, the CFMEU. Nick McKenzie’s reports, “Building Bad”, so horrified federal and state governments that immediate action was promised. Police investigations were launched, an administrator was appointed to take over the running over the union, and influential union figures, including bikies who’d wheedled their way into the organisation, were sacked. It looked like the rot was finally over. However, as McKenzie now discovers, that’s far from the case. In fact it’s business as usual for many of thugs associated with the CFMEU as they continue bullying and ripping off anyone who stands in their way.
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
Producers: Amelia Ballinger, Hannah Bowers
WHY I KILLED MY MOTHER
You’re unlikely to encounter anyone sweeter than Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. She really is charming. But she’s also a convicted murderer. With help from a so-called boyfriend she met online, she killed her own mother. The brutal crime – Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard was stabbed 17 times – happened ten years ago, and Gypsy-Rose was imprisoned. But now she’s free. On 60 MINUTES, Amelia Adams meets a controversial young woman very determined to let the world know why she did what she did.
Reporter: Amelia Adams
Producers: Nichola Younger, Sheree Gibson
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