A son of world auto racing boss Max Mosley has been found dead in his London home, police and the racing federation said on Wednesday.
The body of 39-year-old Alexander Mosley was found in his west London apartment on Tuesday afternoon.
He died of a suspected drug overdose, a London police official said on condition of anonymity because the force was not authorized to disclose details.
Former Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan described Alexander Mosley as a “hugely clever and talented computer expert.”
“It’s totally tragic, he was such a bright boy,” Jordan said. “I’m devastated for them.”
Max Mosley has been the president of the FIA, the international automobile federation which governs Formula One racing, since 1993. He called off plans to travel to this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.
Max Mosley and his wife, Jean, have another son, 37-year-old Patrick.
Max Mosley, the son of former British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, was at the center of a media frenzy last year when a tabloid newspaper reported he took part in a Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes in London. A video of the incident was circulated on the Internet.
Mosley successfully sued the News of the World for invasion of privacy, and Britain’s High Court ruled there had been no Nazi connection to the sex session.
Mosley told the court last year that the story had devastated his family.
“I don’t think there is anything worse for a son than to see in a newspaper, particularly one like the News of the World, pictures of the kind they printed,” he told last year’s court case.
“I can think of nothing more undignified or humiliating than that. If I put myself in their position — to see my father in that position, I would find it devastating,” he said.
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