Formula One Boss Mosley Under Pressure to Resign

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A British tabloid claims to have obtained a video showing the president of Formula One's governing body, Max Mosley, engaging in an orgy involving Nazi role-playing. Jewish leaders are calling on Mosley, the son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, to resign.

FIA president Max Mosley is under pressure over sex allegations.
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FIA president Max Mosley is under pressure over sex allegations.
The president of Formula One's governing body FIA is under pressure to resign over sex allegations made by a British tabloid newspaper.

The News of the World reported Sunday that Max Mosley, 67, had taken part in a "sick Nazi orgy" with five prostitutes involving Nazi role-playing. The allegations are based on a five-hour video obtained by the newspaper, which shows a man identified as Max Mosley acting out various sadomasochistic role-plays in a London apartment.

One prostitute inspects the man's genitals and searches his hair for lice in an obscene parody of the treatment of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The man is whipped by one dominatrix before himself whipping two prostitutes wearing concentration camp-style striped uniforms.

The man also addresses the prostitutes in German during the role-plays, although one girl reportedly confesses in the video to not understanding what he is saying. The man also reportedly engages in sex acts with the prostitutes before finishing off the sex session with a cup of tea.

Jewish leaders in the UK have condemned the video. ?This is sick and depraved,? Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told the London Times. ?I am absolutely appalled.?

"This is an insult to millions of victims, survivors and their families," Stephen Smith, director of the Holocaust Centre, also told the newspaper. "He should apologize. He should resign from the sport.?

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who is a personal friend of Mosley, defended the reputation of the FIA president. "I find it difficult to believe. It's his business but it sounds to me like a set up," he told the Daily Mail. "Knowing Max it might be all a bit of a joke rather than anything against Jewish people."

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Dennis denies involvement in Mosley affair

By Alan Baldwin    Thursday, May 1st 2008, 11:02 GMT

Ron DennisMcLaren boss Ron Dennis has denied any involvement in bringing to light a sex scandal that threatens Max Mosley's position as head of Formula One's governing body.

"As I have consistently said whenever I have been asked about this, I categorically deny that I have anything to do with the News of the World investigation into Mr Mosley," Dennis said in a statement on Thursday.

"Neither does anyone connected with the McLaren Group or the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. And neither does any agent or any other party acting on my behalf or anyone connected with the McLaren Group or the... team."

Britain's News of the World Sunday tabloid published details and photographs last month of Mosley's participation in what it said was a Nazi-style orgy with prostitutes.

Mosley, who is suing the newspaper for unlimited damages for breach of privacy while also fighting to keep his position as International Automobile Federation (FIA) President, suggested he was the victim of a deliberate attempt to discredit him.

"From information provided to me by an impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and security services, I understand that over the last two weeks or so, a covert investigation of my private life and background has been undertaken by a group specialising in such things, for reasons and clients unknown," Mosley wrote to FIA members this month.

"I have had similar and less well-sourced information from France."

Mosley has since hired the Quest private investigations company, run by former London Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens, to try and find out how the newspaper obtained their story.

Dennis's response came after Radovan Novak, the general secretary of the Czech Automobile Association and a long-standing ally of Mosley, appeared to suggest in a Prague radio interview that the revelations might be linked to last year's Formula One spying controversy.

The FIA fined McLaren a record $100 million and stripped them of all their constructors' points for having Ferrari technical information in their possession.

Dennis, who has clashed many times with Mosley in his decades in Formula One, said McLaren would be seeking clarification from Novak.

"We are writing to Mr Novak and are currently considering the appropriate route via which the remarks that have been attributed to him may be withdrawn or corrected," he said.

Mosley, in office since 1993, has ignored calls for him to resign over the scandal but faces a confidence vote by secret ballot of the FIA's general assembly in Paris next month.