Ah, well sounds like maybe they should've stuck with covering News Corp.'s misdeeds closer to home then. Thanks for the clarification, I'd never even heard of Max Mosley (or Nazi-themed fetish models for that matter, though I'm not surprised they exist...).
Max Mosley is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (Formula One governing body) and son of Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists and Hitler's biggest fan in Britain during the 1930s. Part of what made the story so juicy was this family connection. The NOTW seem to have put 2 and 2 together and made 5.
In fact, the court fully accepted Mosley's argument that the party, or sex session, or whatever we are going to call it, was
not Nazi-themed (though even if it was, personally, I'd argue that if they're consenting adults, which they clearly were, what they got up to was no business of the general public.) Also, they weren't Nazi-themed fetish models as such, they were spanking afficionados that did some modelling work or private sessions for payment on the side, as I understand it. One was apparently a highly qualified research scientist, for example. Another was seemingly the wife of an M15 spy.
A number of ordinary law-abiding middle class people had their reputations over nothing, and had to appear in court when I'm sure they would rather have stayed well out of the public eye. However the fetish community is protective of its own, so they agreed to Max Mosley's request to testify, but I'm sure the whole episode was extremely embarassing for them and for Mosley even though he won the case.
By the way, Max Mosley's gifted son committed suicide about a year after his father's contretemps with the NOTW. I'm not suggesting this tragedy was anything to do with his father's travails, as he apparently had issues with drugs, but you never know.
Now the tables are truly turned. This is what I meant when I said earlier that revenge is a dish best served cold.
