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| Press stole my dignity - Mosley | Press stole my dignity - Mosley |
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| Motor racing boss Max Mosley has told MPs that a newspaper article showing pictures of him at an orgy had a "terrible, terrible" effect. | Motor racing boss Max Mosley has told MPs that a newspaper article showing pictures of him at an orgy had a "terrible, terrible" effect. |
| He told the Commons culture, media and sport committee the News of the World story had taken his "dignity". | He told the Commons culture, media and sport committee the News of the World story had taken his "dignity". |
| Mr Mosley, president of the International Automobile Federation, said the situation was "appalling". | Mr Mosley, president of the International Automobile Federation, said the situation was "appalling". |
| Mr Mosley successfully sued the News of the World over claims that an orgy he took part in had a Nazi theme. | Mr Mosley successfully sued the News of the World over claims that an orgy he took part in had a Nazi theme. |
| The court found no evidence of this and ruled that his privacy had been breached. He was awarded £60,000 in damages. | |
| 'They all know' | |
| He is now taking his challenge to privacy laws to the European Court of Human Rights. | He is now taking his challenge to privacy laws to the European Court of Human Rights. |
| Asked about the day the article had been published last July, Mr Mosley told the MPs: "It's very difficult to describe if something like that happens completely out of the blue... I had been doing this for 45 years and there had never been a hint and nobody knew." | |
| He added that he had been "outraged", saying: "If someone takes your goods you have got some chance of replacing them. If someone takes your dignity, you have got no chance of replacing it." | |
| Mr Mosley also said: "You know that they know and no-one would ever be rude enough to make an unpleasant joke. You go into a restaurant and nobody says anything, but you know they all know... | |
| "That's not very nice for me. What's really appalling is for my family." | |
| 'Public interest' | |
| Mr Mosley added: "Can you imagine seeing pictures like that of your father? It's just appalling. | |
| "If there was a huge, genuine public interest then of course they should do it. It has to be a very good public interest." | |
| Mr Mosley was awarded a record £60,000 in privacy damages against the News of the World over the story. | |
| The paper was also ordered to pay £420,000 of his legal costs but his total bill came to over £500,000. | |
| Mr Mosley, 68, told the committee he ended up having to pay £30,000 in the case. | |
| He said: "To me it was worth it, but an awful lot of people would say 'if in addition to getting everything repeated again, I'm going to have a big bill, I'm not going to do it'." | |
| Mr Mosley said he had not ruled out bringing a separate libel action against the News of the World but did not want to appear "money-grabbing or vindictive". |