Max Mosley

Max Mosley
Born	Max Rufus Mosley 13 April 1940 London, England, United Kingdom
Died	23 May 2021 (Age 81)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Millfield School, Christ Church (Oxford)
Parents	• Sir Oswald Mosley • Diana Mitford
Children	• Alexander • Patrick
Spouse	Jean Taylor
Victim of	sexual blackmail
Youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford. President of the governing body for Formula One, and target of deep state sexual blackmail in 2008.  President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile In office 23 October 1993 - 23 October 2009

Max Mosley was president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide from 1993 until 2009. The FIA is also the governing body for Formula One and other international motorsports.

Max Mosley is the youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists, and Diana Mitford. He was the target of sexual blackmail in 2008.

Lawyer

Mosley is the youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists, and Diana Mitford. He was educated in France, Germany, and Britain before going on to attend university at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in physics. He then changed to law and was called to the bar in 1964. In his teens and early twenties, Mosley was involved with his father's post-war political party, the Union Movement (UM). He has said that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the Conservative Party in the early 1980s.

Labour donor

in February 2017, Mosley donated £300,000 to Tom Watson deputy leader of the Labour Party (five times the amount Watson received from the GMB union). The £300,000 donation followed a £200,000 donation by Mr Mosley registered in June 2016 and £40,000 in August 2015. In the House of Commons register of members' interests, Tom Watson said the two biggest donations from Mr Mosley were donated via the Labour Party to support his office. The smallest one was to help fund his campaign to be Labour deputy leader.

Sexual blackmail

In 2008, a MI5 officer was forced to resign after it emerged that his wife was one of five prostitutes who took part in what the News of the World called "a Nazi-style sado-masochistic orgy". Mosley, while apologizing for any embarrassment caused to the sport of motor racing, strongly denied any Nazi connotation to the affair and said he was the victim of a "covert investigation." He asserted after the scandal broke that he had been targeted "by a group specializing in such things, for reasons and clients unknown." The affair raises many questions, not least how MI5 could have failed to know that the wife of one of its own operatives was working as a prostitute. The MI5 denied any knowledge of the affair. Mosley stood down as FIA President at the end of his term in 2009.

Car crash interview

On 27 February 2018, in a compelling interview on Channel 4/News, a blustering Max Mosley admitted that a bombshell 1961 election pamphlet uncovered by the Daily Mail was racist:

Cathy Newman: "Mr Mosley you said in the News of the World trial in 2008 that the claim that leaflets were put out alleging immigrants brought disease to the UK was absolute nonsense. Did you get it wrong or did you lie under oath?"

Max Mosley: "I wouldn’t dream of lying under oath – that’s a very offensive suggestion which you shouldn’t make. Absolutely shouldn’t make. The truth is that I was asked about that leaflet and I said to the barrister if that leaflet existed, if you had it you’d produce it. And of course they should have produced it if it existed. I never ... no, no listen to the answer."

CN: "Well, you actually said you didn’t recall it."

MM: "I’ve never seen that leaflet, the original, and I’d like to see it. That’s a photocopy, I’d like to see the original."

CN: "This is a photocopy of the original, which you saw in Michael Crick’s report. I’m happy for you to have a look at that just to look through it but I’m also happy to quote from it. Walter Hesketh’s by-election leaflet says coloured immigration threatens your children’s health."

MM: "We’ve already had that …"

CN: "All those terrible suggestions. Well why did you publish it? Your name is on ..."

MM: "They asked me in the trial, no they asked me in the trial whether that leaflet existed and I said it was absolutely true, that it was complete nonsense and that was my recollection, it still is my recollection. I’m not even sure if it’s genuine, but if it is genuine it doesn’t reflect my views today and this entirely red herring put out by the Daily Mail and I’m astonished, I am astonished. 'Yeah … I think that probably is racist, I'll concede that'."

Death

Mosley died on 23 May 2021 after developing cancer, with the news being confirmed by Bernie Ecclestone. He was 81.

On 29 March 2022, an inquest into his death confirmed that Mosley was found with a fatal gunshot wound to his head. Mosley had been told that he had just "weeks" to live and told his personal assistant of 20 years that he was going to take his own life the day before he did so.

References

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