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F1 BOSS MOSLEY WINS MASSIVE DAMAGES IN PRIVACY CASE

VICTORY: Mosley leaving court today

Thursday July 24,2008

By Penny Stretton for Express.co.uk

Formula One boss Max Mosley has won a massive £60,000 pay-out in a controversial privacy case against tabloid paper the News of the World.

The newspaper accused the 68-year-old of indulging in a "Sick nazi orgy" with five prostitutes and has now been
ordered by the court to pay him a record sum of compensation.

Though Mosley said the invasion of privacy case had devastated his life he did not deny taking part in the sadomasochistic roleplay session in a flat in Chelsea.

The FIA President speaks to the press

However Mosley - the son of 1930's fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley - stressed that the sex session was "consensual and private with no nazi overtones."

The newspaper ran the story on Mosley's secret sex life in March this year.

Footage of the act was also shown on its website- attracting 3.5 million viewers.

James Price QC told London’s High Court that the “gross and indefensible intrusion” by the tabloid in its role as a titilating Peeping Tom was made substantially worse by the false suggestion that Mr Mosley was playing a concentration camp commandant and a cowering death camp inmate.

The newspaper’s editor, Colin Myler, said he believed the story was one of “legitimate public interest and one that I believe was legitimately published” and that it was “absolutely not true” that the newspaper had fabricated the Nazi aspect.

In a statement after the ruling Max Mosley said:“This judgment has nailed the Nazi lie upon which the News of the World sought to justify their disgraceful intrusion into my private life.

“By law we are all entitled to have our privacy respected.

"As I promised at the outset, the damages will go to the FIA Foundation to further their work for road safety and the environment.

“Finally, I would like to thank all those who have supported me during this difficult period.”