Max Mosley, President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), is at the center of scandal that makes ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer look like a junior leaguer. In the video shown below, Mosley is reportedly engaged in a five hour orgy with five prostitutes dressed as Nazi guards — a particularly embarrassing performance given the fact that Mosley’s father, Oswald, was the pre-war leader of Britain’s fascist “blackshirts” and even invited Adolf Hitler to his wedding. Update: Mosley prevailed in a court action in showing that the party did not have a Nazi theme and that his privacy was violated.

According to the English papers, Mosley enjoyed re-enacted scenes from a concentration camp with the prostitutes and the video shows the orgy ending with the prostitutes drinking wine while Mr Mosley, 67, “recovering” with a cup of tea.

In the video, Mosley allegedly speaks German as he uses a whip to beat the women and also being mistreated himself — including a lice inspection at the pretend camp. Click here

While he hired fewer prostitutes, Mosley has surpassed the former head of the Iranian morals police, here. Of course, the United States has its own steady stream of dominatrix related cases, such as the recent dominatrix who was renting her facility from a rabbinical school, click here and the professor in New York who was put into a coma after such a “session,” click here.

Mosley insists that he will not resign, click here

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, was a true piece of work. A fascist, he founded the British Union of Fascists and was interned during World War II. Click here.

Notably, Formula One Management and Formula One Administration president and CEO Bernie Ecclestone has said that, “Assuming it’s all true, what people do privately is up to them. I don’t honestly believe [it] affects the sport in any way.” That is a reasonable position. It is entirely his private life. The Nazi history in his family, however, does raise a legitimate concern over his personal views.

What is interesting is how this would be handled in the United States. There is a tort protecting people from the public disclosure of embarrassing private facts. While there is an exception for publications in the public interest, it would make for an interesting challenge. Mosley is clearly an important international figure, but this is a private matter. Yet, his Nazi fantasies would appear of public interest given his position and his rather infamous father.

It now appears that one of the prostitutes was the wife of a MI5 agent, who was forced to resign, click here.

For the alleged video, click here.

For the full story, click here.