Motor racing tycoon Max Mosley, whose death at 81 was announced last night, lived much of his early life in the long shadow of his Fascist parents before securing his legacy as a multi-millionaire.
Max Mosley and his Ministry of Truth
The late Formula 1 supremo, and son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, spent millions trying to stop stories appearing in the press
24 May 2021 • 8:50pm
There was a revealing moment in an interview Max Mosley gave to Channel 4 a little over two years ago when, confronted with a racist leaflet published by him, and whose very existence he had previously denied under oath, he was asked whether he had perjured himself.
“That’s a very offensive suggestion which you shouldn’t make,” he shot back. The premise for the question was itself “stupid”.
This was the Mosley modus operandi: ignore the unpleasant facts staring you in the face; challenge instead the basis on which those facts might be relayed. It was the tactic deployed when in 2008 he sued
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15:38, 24 MAY 2021
Former Formula 1 chief and privacy campaigner Max Mosley had died aged 81 (Image: PA)
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Max Mosley s legal action against the Daily Mail s publisher for sending prosecutors a dossier questioning whether he lied on oath was today thrown out by a High Court judge.
The former Formula 1 boss had claimed Associated Newspapers reported bogus concerns to the Crown Prosecution Service to be able to publish damaging stories about him in order to counter his own campaign for fairer regulation of the press .
The claims were that Mr Mosley may have committed perjury at the trial of his privacy claim against the now-defunct News Of The World more than a decade ago.
Mr Mosley, 80, said the Daily Mail set the law in motion against him to further its own regulatory and commercial objectives and not to achieve any proper purpose and was suing for damages for malicious prosecution.