Harrods Checking Report Its Perfume Girls Sold Sex, Too

Harrods, the fashionable London department store, launched an investigation today into a report that some girls working at its perfume counters sold sex to customers.

The Daily Mirror tabloid alleged in a front-page story headlined “Sex for Sale in Harrods” that free-lance salesgirls earned up to $1,800 a day in cash and gold jewelry to take part in champagne, sex and drugs parties.

“They are serious allegations, and therefore we are holding a full inquiry into the matter,” a spokesman for Harrods said.

The Mirror said some of the girls, working for agencies and not directly employed by Harrods, took four-hour lunch breaks for sex sessions.

It quoted one, who claimed to have earned more than $182,000 in cash and gifts in two years, as saying: “That includes bonking (having sex) in the back of limos--all very naughty.”