Max Mosley launches more lawsuits against newspapers
Unwilling to recognize when genug is enough, Max Mosley is forging ahead with more lawsuits. After being awarded a £60,000 judgment (plus an additional estimated £1 million in expenses) against News of the World, the tabloid that broke the story of the FIA president's alleged sexual activities, Mosley is now launching a second lawsuit against the publishers. Whereas the previous lawsuit was on the grounds of invasion of privacy, the second action is for libel.
In addition to the follow-up suit against News of the World, Mosley will also be pursuing compensatory damages from German newspaper Bild, which Mosley claims repeated the story unchecked. The suit against Bild petitions for one million euros, plus an addition half-million from its online edition. The prostitute, known only as Woman E, who originally claimed the episode had a Nazi theme, has since recanted and revised her statement to the exclusion of any such connection.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Sam 7:03PM (7/29/2008)
Total douchebag.
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nil8r73 7:09PM (7/29/2008)
It's in his blood
Majarvis 7:48PM (7/29/2008)
Yeah, how dare he sue a tabloid paper for publishing a story with an un-true twist on it that caused damaging reprecussions and caused calls for him to resign his FIA Presidency! What a douchebag, indeed!
Torqued 9:36PM (7/29/2008)
Untrue? Or unprovable? To some it means the same thing. To me, even if he has a legitimate case in court, I can't really feel sorry for the scumbag.
azzo45 11:57PM (7/29/2008)
Majarvis: Did the BILD tab plant the concept of video taping the kink-fest right into Max's head? Mosley was fully aware of the camera!!!
Since he is a man of wealth & power... he & his "people" was able to strong arm one of the call girls to drop her claim of the N*zi theme.
If Maxxie want to get his rocks off with five hookers... & VIDEO TAPE it.... man up & don't be surprised when the tape gets leaked or a dupe is made.
This guy has the b*lls to say its the media's fault because up until this scandal his wife of 40+ years had no clue he was a kink freak. PLEASE!
Das Boese 8:05PM (7/29/2008)
BILD has a known sad history of bad journalism, including violating personal rights, repeating other media unchecked, twisting facts and outright lying in order to beef up their stories.
Independent of what anyone thinks of Mosley, he does have the right to be treated like a human being.
I see nothing wrong with that lawsuit. The sum of money for which he sues may seem high, but though he's likely to win, chances are slim he'll actually get that much. German courts are, sadly, usually much too soft on the media in these cases.
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Cary 2:32AM (7/30/2008)
He has the right to be treated like a human being? What about the millions [holocaust deniers go to hell] of people that were mudered that his little fantasy is built upon? Deserves anything less than a swift boot to the head, I think not.
Geeky1 8:57PM (7/29/2008)
Good for him. I hope he wins this one too. Regardless of what people think of his character, this assault on it was uncalled for and simply ridiculous.
The only people with a right to know about his-or anybody else's-sex life (so long as all participants are consenting adults) are the people involved in it. Period. If he wants to discuss what he does in the bedroom, on the kitchen table, on the couch, on the floor, in the car, in a prostitute's dungeon or anywhere else with people, that's up to him. But if he doesn't want to discuss it, nobody else has the right to expose it, PARTICULARLY when the only reason for doing so is to shame the man. The whole thing-what's been done to him, that is, not what he did-disgusts me.
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azzo45 12:30AM (7/30/2008)
Don't video tape your kink then. Simple.
Geeky1 2:04AM (7/30/2008)
azzo: Practically speaking, I agree with you completely. He should have realized that something like this could (would) happen. However, that doesn't make what the press did right. Inevitable, yes. Right? No.
Pat NCN 5:20AM (7/30/2008)
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You do know it was taped secretly by "Woman E", without Mosley's knowledge, right?
azzo45 8:40AM (7/30/2008)
Pat... even in footage that has made it onto the news he can be seen playing to the camera. The video that was floating around the net shows the same.
Sure his lawyers say the hooker "secretly" recorded everything. The same lawyers who got the hooker to drop her claim that it was a N*zi-Themed kink fest & just a standard S&M kink fest.
$$$ buys you out of a lotta $hit. Most middle-management types at the FIA would have been fired on the spot for the same thing Max did & would have had to pray their scandal wouldn't effect their getting a new job
garth 10:43PM (7/29/2008)
go get them Mad Max...
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steveo391 11:09PM (7/29/2008)
I wonder how much money it's costs to get a prostitute to change her story?
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Blixem 5:23AM (7/30/2008)
Roflmao
RSR 1:24AM (7/30/2008)
Is it just me that these stories are terribly uninteresting...?
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guy 2:08AM (7/30/2008)
DROP DEAD.
It's cool for him to sue them, they invaded his privacy, but this needs to burn in hell. I don't want to watch F1 and actually be watching CNN. Seriously sport needs no politics.
Sit in the damn car and go.
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guy 2:09AM (7/30/2008)
DROP DEAD.
It's cool for him to sue them, they invaded his privacy, but this man needs to burn in hell. I don't want to watch F1 and actually be watching CNN.
Seriously sport needs no politics. Sit in the damn car and go.
Giuseppe 3:13AM (7/30/2008)
Imagine what his wife and kids must be going through?
Personally i think Sir Jackie Stewart set him up to embarrass him
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azzo45 12:13PM (7/30/2008)
PLEASE! Max called Sir Jackie a "half wit" (& Max looked like a total gas-bag fool doing so...) Mr Stewart's back was covered by the public.
Brian is correct IMO. Ron Dennis got 100 MILLION pulled out of his a$$ by Max. It was later reduced to 50 MILLION... but losing $$$ is more of a motive to set someone up in a sex scandal.