Motor racing boss Mosley wins pvt lawsuit

Mosley8217;s legal costs are estimated at about 900,000.

Mosley, 68, admits the encounter with sex workers, but says it was private and there were no Nazi overtones.

8220;The ruling exposed the Nazi lie upon which the News of the World sought to justify their disgraceful intrusion into my private life,8221; Mosley said in a statement. 8220;I hope my case will help deter newspapers in the UK from pursuing this type of invasive and salacious journalism.8221;

The 8220;Nazi8221; issue was especially sensitive because Mosley is the son of the late Oswald Mosley, Britain8217;s best-known fascist politician in the 1930s and a friend of Adolf Hitler.

The payout is large for a British privacy lawsuit, where damages awards are usually modest. But the judge did not award the 8220;punitive and exemplary8221; damages Mosley had sought to deter other newspapers from running similar stories. The judge ruled that Mosley 8220;had a reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to sexual activities albeit unconventional carried on between consenting adults on private property8221;.

He said he had found no evidence the orgy 8220;was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes.8221;