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Speaking at the news conference, the former Harrods employee told how working for Fayed was like walking "into a lion's den - a lair of cover-ups, deceit, lies, manipulation, humiliation and gross sexual misconduct".

They literally accused her of staying artificially young by sacrificing children in a secret lair beneath a pizza parlor.

In addition to the record-setting sale, he also put another home on the market: a stone monolith of sorts in Beverly Hills that resembles a supervillain’s lair more than a house.

The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from their long journey south and the musk oxen wade north.

Technicians drill holes into the infested wood to reach the termite "gallery" or lair, then inject poison into the hole to inundate the bugs.