Scandal at the Savoy: Marguerite Alibert & Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
A tumultuous marriage between an Egyptian “prince” and a French courtesan with ties to the British Royal Family ends in murder at The Savoy in 1920’s London.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jesse, last time featured a committed narcissist. |
| 0:04.0 | What do you have for us this week? |
| 0:05.7 | A tumultuous marriage between an Egyptian prince and a French cortisone with ties to the British royal family |
| 0:12.2 | ends in murder at the Savoy in 1920s London. |
| 0:16.4 | Ooh, I'm Andy Cassette. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about cheap thrills, |
| 0:53.1 | unpaid bills, and love gone fatally wrong. |
| 0:57.1 | Even in the 1920s. |
| 0:58.8 | Even in the... She found a way to pay those bills, babe. |
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| 1:40.4 | O. Welcome, everyone. And thank as always, for tuning in every Wednesday. |
| 1:47.1 | I just appreciate you all so much. She does. It's very true. Wait, okay, so is this |
| 1:53.8 | Croix-Zone? Is she going to be using the equivalent form of only fans in the 1920s to pay her bills? |
| 2:01.3 | I think she would have, if she could have. Maybe. I don't know. She's pretty high end over here. |
| 2:07.4 | So it would have been for a very exclusive VIP clientele. |
| 2:11.9 | I was to say, there's some high end on only fans, you know? |
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