Max Mosley has described how the
News of the World's shocking revelations about his private sexual life have ‘destroyed everything', admitting that there is ‘nothing I can say that can ever repair' the damage done to his family.
The embattled
FIA President – who has doggedly clung onto his position in the most powerful role in international motorsport in the wake of the Sunday tabloid's front page exposé back in March, after winning a vote of confidence held on his future in the FIA Senate – is this week taking on News Group Newspapers in the High Court, seeking ‘exemplary punitive damages' on the grounds of defamation and breach of privacy as he boldly opens up his sexual life to public scrutiny in a bid to clear his name.
The newspaper published a story – and video on its website – of a five-hour, £2,500 sado-masochistic orgy in which it claimed he had played the part of both a concentration camp commandant and death camp inmate. Mosley categorically denies gaining any sexual gratification from the history of the Third Reich.
“In one weekend they have destroyed everything,” Mosley told the court, admitting that his wife Jean had never had any inkling of his secret predilection for sado-masochistic sex. “It is difficult to describe how public this humiliation has been.
“I've been doing that for 45 years and there's never been the slightest hint of that coming out and, if it hadn't been for bribery and illegal acts, this wouldn't have come out.
“My wife and I have been married for 48 years...together for more than 50. We met as teenagers. There is nothing that I can say that can ever repair [the damage done].
“Also, for my two sons, I don't think there is anything worse for a son than to see in a newspaper, particularly one like the
News of the World, pictures of the kind they printed.”
