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24/07/2008
F1 Boss Wins Privacy Case Over 'Nazi Sex' Orgy
Formula One boss Max Mosley has won his High Court privacy action against a Sunday newspaper over an alleged "Nazi orgy".
Mr Justice Eady has awarded Mr Mosley £60,000 in damages against News Group Newspapers in a 'breach of privacy' ruling.
Mr Justice Eady said "he found there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes".
Mr Mosley, 68, admitted a "consensual sadomasochistic sex session" with five prostitutes at a Chelsea basement flat in March but had strongly denied that it had a Nazi undertone.
Mr Mosley, the President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) had asked for the paper to be ordered to pay a fee "high enough to teach tabloids a lesson".
It is understood that the tabloid story was based on a secret video from one of the women involved.
The paper also put secretly filmed footage of the event on its website and said it was "truly grotesque and depraved".
At the High Court, the judge did not make the unprecedented award of punitive exemplary damages that Mr Mosley had sought.
Mr Mosley was in court for the ruling and reportedly showed no emotion as the damages were awarded.
He said that his life was "devastated" by the tabloid report.
The world motorsport boss is the son of the 1930s Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
See: Mosley 'Sex Video' To Go Online
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Mr Justice Eady has awarded Mr Mosley £60,000 in damages against News Group Newspapers in a 'breach of privacy' ruling.
Mr Justice Eady said "he found there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes".
Mr Mosley, 68, admitted a "consensual sadomasochistic sex session" with five prostitutes at a Chelsea basement flat in March but had strongly denied that it had a Nazi undertone.
Mr Mosley, the President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) had asked for the paper to be ordered to pay a fee "high enough to teach tabloids a lesson".
It is understood that the tabloid story was based on a secret video from one of the women involved.
The paper also put secretly filmed footage of the event on its website and said it was "truly grotesque and depraved".
At the High Court, the judge did not make the unprecedented award of punitive exemplary damages that Mr Mosley had sought.
Mr Mosley was in court for the ruling and reportedly showed no emotion as the damages were awarded.
He said that his life was "devastated" by the tabloid report.
The world motorsport boss is the son of the 1930s Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
See: Mosley 'Sex Video' To Go Online
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