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Sick Nazi Orgy With 5 Hookers
This is beyond hilarous:
"I'm a sadomasochist who rents five hookers at a time. Just don't call me a Nazi."
Formula 1 chief airs raunchy sex life to prove he's no Nazi
DOUG SAUNDERS
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July 10, 2008
LONDON -- If it were possible to craft the perfect tabloid headline, the editors of London's News of the World accomplished it a few Sundays ago, uniting the favourite topics of its readers - sex, crime, celebrity, motor sports and the Second World War - in the page-filling Formula 1 Boss Has Sick Nazi Orgy With 5 Hookers.
In a London courtroom this week, that Formula 1 boss is throwing his entire sex life before the public eye in a battle to have part of that headline retracted, to be specific, exactly one of its 10 explosive words.
Max Mosley, 68, who since 1993 has been the president of motor racing's top governing body, does not deny that he met five hookers in a Chelsea flat, or that he engaged in a sadomasochistic orgy with them for five hours in exchange for several thousand dollars, or that he wore a prison outfit and the women German-style military uniforms, shouting at him in German while shaving him, inspecting his head for lice, humiliating him and sexually abusing him. In fact, he told the court that he has had a lifelong "unfortunate interest" in such activities.
The word in question is "Nazi." It is a sore point for the racing chief, who is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the head of the British Union of Fascists, Britain's main Nazi party in the 1930s and 40s. Max was born to Oswald Mosley's second wife, Diana Mitford, after the two were married in Germany by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, with Hitler among the guests of honour. For much of his childhood, his parents were in British prisons.
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But in his battle to persuade the court that there were no Nazi connotations in the Germanic prison-themed humiliation session, which was videotaped by a prostitute paid by the tabloid and then posted on the paper's website, Mr. Mosley may have plunged himself into a deeper scandal, one that calls into question the judgment and politics of the wealthy community involved in international auto racing.
Last month, Formula 1's leading teams gave Mr. Mosley an overwhelming vote of confidence, 105 votes to 55, at an emergency meeting in Paris as the scandal was at its peak. That vote outraged German racing teams Mercedes and BMW, Japanese teams Toyota and Honda, the government of Israel and numerous racing celebrities such as Stirling Moss.
Yesterday, the racing boss's lawyers argued that there was no Nazi content in the role-playing session, and that Mr. Mosley had been pretending to be an English prisoner being moved into a British institution that just happened to have a German-speaking guard. The uniforms, they said, had been purchased for the occasion at Marks & Spencer. His lawyers said there was "nothing unmistakably Nazi" in the scenes.
Mr. Mosley is suing the newspaper for damages, claiming it invaded his privacy without cause, eavesdropping on a strictly private sex act in contravention of Britain's press codes, and caused him considerable damage. He has argued that his penchant for theatrical whipping and spanking scenarios is well within the conventional range of upper-class British sexual practices.
The News of the World is countering that Mr. Mosley's alleged covert politics are of considerable public interest and that laws may have been broken, so the reporters were justified in invading his privacy.
And in the best tradition of British libel trials, the paper's editors have used the occasion to bring forth even more embarrassing details about Mr. Mosley - and on this occasion, the humiliation does not appear to provide him pleasure.
"I know blood was drawn," News of the World editor Colin Myler told the court yesterday with evident relish, "because he had a plaster [bandage] on his pink bottom."
One of Mr. Mosley's lawyers argued that a crime could not have been committed since everything was self-inflicted. On Tuesday he called several of the prostitutes as witnesses, and they testified that the Third Reich played no part in their role-playing games. He conceded that the fantasies were conducted with one of the women wearing a Luftwaffe jacket and all of them speaking "cod German," but that this was normal.
"Had I wanted a Nazi scene, I would have said I wanted one and [the women] would have got some of the inexpensive Nazi stuff from the joke shops that provide uniforms and would not have gone to Marks & Spencer and got quite expensive uniforms," he said.
As for the head-lice checking, which the paper argued was a clear reference to the treatment of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, he said it was "the kind of thing these people do all the time."
Reporter Neville Thurlbeck, who organized the sting operation, yesterday ridiculed Mr. Mosley's defence.
"Why should he order German dominatrices to beat him with sticks? You might argue it was a German theme; it certainly wasn't Hansel and Gretel. ... There was an overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming Nazi theme.
"I was completely surprised by the level of the nazism, as we saw it."
The civil trial continues.
"I'm a sadomasochist who rents five hookers at a time. Just don't call me a Nazi."
Formula 1 chief airs raunchy sex life to prove he's no Nazi
DOUG SAUNDERS
E-mail Doug Saunders | Read Bio | Latest Columns
July 10, 2008
LONDON -- If it were possible to craft the perfect tabloid headline, the editors of London's News of the World accomplished it a few Sundays ago, uniting the favourite topics of its readers - sex, crime, celebrity, motor sports and the Second World War - in the page-filling Formula 1 Boss Has Sick Nazi Orgy With 5 Hookers.
In a London courtroom this week, that Formula 1 boss is throwing his entire sex life before the public eye in a battle to have part of that headline retracted, to be specific, exactly one of its 10 explosive words.
Max Mosley, 68, who since 1993 has been the president of motor racing's top governing body, does not deny that he met five hookers in a Chelsea flat, or that he engaged in a sadomasochistic orgy with them for five hours in exchange for several thousand dollars, or that he wore a prison outfit and the women German-style military uniforms, shouting at him in German while shaving him, inspecting his head for lice, humiliating him and sexually abusing him. In fact, he told the court that he has had a lifelong "unfortunate interest" in such activities.
The word in question is "Nazi." It is a sore point for the racing chief, who is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the head of the British Union of Fascists, Britain's main Nazi party in the 1930s and 40s. Max was born to Oswald Mosley's second wife, Diana Mitford, after the two were married in Germany by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, with Hitler among the guests of honour. For much of his childhood, his parents were in British prisons.
Print Edition - Section Front
Enlarge Image
But in his battle to persuade the court that there were no Nazi connotations in the Germanic prison-themed humiliation session, which was videotaped by a prostitute paid by the tabloid and then posted on the paper's website, Mr. Mosley may have plunged himself into a deeper scandal, one that calls into question the judgment and politics of the wealthy community involved in international auto racing.
Last month, Formula 1's leading teams gave Mr. Mosley an overwhelming vote of confidence, 105 votes to 55, at an emergency meeting in Paris as the scandal was at its peak. That vote outraged German racing teams Mercedes and BMW, Japanese teams Toyota and Honda, the government of Israel and numerous racing celebrities such as Stirling Moss.
Yesterday, the racing boss's lawyers argued that there was no Nazi content in the role-playing session, and that Mr. Mosley had been pretending to be an English prisoner being moved into a British institution that just happened to have a German-speaking guard. The uniforms, they said, had been purchased for the occasion at Marks & Spencer. His lawyers said there was "nothing unmistakably Nazi" in the scenes.
Mr. Mosley is suing the newspaper for damages, claiming it invaded his privacy without cause, eavesdropping on a strictly private sex act in contravention of Britain's press codes, and caused him considerable damage. He has argued that his penchant for theatrical whipping and spanking scenarios is well within the conventional range of upper-class British sexual practices.
The News of the World is countering that Mr. Mosley's alleged covert politics are of considerable public interest and that laws may have been broken, so the reporters were justified in invading his privacy.
And in the best tradition of British libel trials, the paper's editors have used the occasion to bring forth even more embarrassing details about Mr. Mosley - and on this occasion, the humiliation does not appear to provide him pleasure.
"I know blood was drawn," News of the World editor Colin Myler told the court yesterday with evident relish, "because he had a plaster [bandage] on his pink bottom."
One of Mr. Mosley's lawyers argued that a crime could not have been committed since everything was self-inflicted. On Tuesday he called several of the prostitutes as witnesses, and they testified that the Third Reich played no part in their role-playing games. He conceded that the fantasies were conducted with one of the women wearing a Luftwaffe jacket and all of them speaking "cod German," but that this was normal.
"Had I wanted a Nazi scene, I would have said I wanted one and [the women] would have got some of the inexpensive Nazi stuff from the joke shops that provide uniforms and would not have gone to Marks & Spencer and got quite expensive uniforms," he said.
As for the head-lice checking, which the paper argued was a clear reference to the treatment of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, he said it was "the kind of thing these people do all the time."
Reporter Neville Thurlbeck, who organized the sting operation, yesterday ridiculed Mr. Mosley's defence.
"Why should he order German dominatrices to beat him with sticks? You might argue it was a German theme; it certainly wasn't Hansel and Gretel. ... There was an overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming Nazi theme.
"I was completely surprised by the level of the nazism, as we saw it."
The civil trial continues.
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