
This is deja vu all over again!
The hotel maid allegedly groped by an Egyptian businessman, immediately reported it to a supervisor but was told to wait a day to speak to security, sources said Tuesday. The supervisor’s decision explains why Sunday night’s alleged assault was not reported to police until Monday morning.
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, 74, the former head of the Bank of Alexandria and now chairman of a leading Middle Eastern salt company, is accused of locking the 44-year-old maid inside his $900-a-night room at The Pierre on Sunday. Channeling his inner Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Omar called for room service requesting tissues and answered the door in his pajamas, police sources said.
When the maid – whom he had not specifically asked for – arrived at his 10th-floor room, he asked her to put the box of tissues on a table, sources said. As she moved toward the table, he locked the door.