Jul.7 (GMM) Max Mosley's privacy and defamation case against the British tabloid newspaper News of the World began in the London High Court on Monday.
Mosley, the 68-year-old Briton who won his other battle to keep his role as FIA president amid the controversy, was photographed arriving at the court with two lawyers.His lawyers admitted that their client took part in a sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes in a Chelsea flat he rents, but vehemently deny any suggestions of Nazi role-play elements.Lawyer James Price told the judge, who will rule on the two-week hearings without a jury, that News of the World fabricated the Nazi claims only because Mosley's father was the notorious British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley."If it had been a story about Bernie Ecclestone, it would not have been a 'sick Nazi orgy'," he charged.Mosley is seeking compensatory as well as unlimited punitive damages, and has vowed to donate all proceeds to the FIA Foundation.