Mosley, 68, sued the tabloid for invasion of privacy after it posted video footage of him involved in what it frothily described as a "depraved Nazi-style orgy in a torture dungeon. Colin Myler, the tabloid's editor, defended the story as being of "legitimate public interest" given Mosley's role as head of the International Automobile Association FIA. He also defended the paper's "fair and reasonable interpretation of Nazi-style role-play. High Court judge David Eady dismissed that interpretation. The News of the World's defense crumbled when Woman E, a prostitute married to an agent of MI5, Britain's domestic investigation service, failed to show up in court.
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The tabloid's lurid account, complete with grainy photographs and graphic video footage, alleged Mr Mosley played the part of a concentration camp commander during the orgy. It was shot secretly by one of the female players and made headlines - and elicited millions of internet hits - around the world. Mr Mosley, the son of the notorious s British fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, did not sue the paper for defamation but for gross invasion of privacy and made the surprising decision to endure weeks of mortifying court appearances in which his predilection for beatings and domination - to the point of drawing blood - were aired. Mr Mosley told the court his wife had found the revelations "totally devastating". However, in his final statement to the court, Justice Eady, said it was not unreasonable for Mr Mosley to have expected a level of privacy about his sexual activities - even if they were "unconventional" - because they were between consenting adults and on private property. But there was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting inform-ation and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on the News of the World website - all of this on a massive scale and in a private house," he said.
By Daily Mail Reporter. He took the Sunday newspaper to court in and won a landmark privacy case. He successfully sued the News of the World for claiming his five-hour bottom-spanking, whipping and fantasy session with women in striped prison pyjamas had a 'Nazi theme'. The fifth dominatrix had secretly filmed the orgy for the News of the World, and did not appear in court.
Max Mosley: Looked confident outside the High Court yesterday despite revelations of spanking sessions. One said the kinky sex games with the year-old son of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley gave her 'the best feeling in the world'. Another revealed it brought her 'release from the day-to-day pressures of life' as she studied for a PhD. And the motorsport supremo himself admitted his obsession with the 'perfectly harmless' practices saw him speaking German or with a mock German accent as he played out bizarre roles in the playlets he devised with five young prostitutes. But in court yesterday four of the women - known as A to D to protect their identities - all robustly rebutted a Sunday newspaper claim that their 'private parties' had a Nazi or concentration camp theme.