Dominatrix Regrets Taking Cash to Secretly Film Mosley Sex Romp

LONDON – A dominatrix who secretly filmed the president of Formula One's governing body in a sadomasochistic orgy said Friday she regretted her actions, which she said led to her husband's resignation from MI5, Britain's domestic spy agency.

The mother of two — known only as Woman E — said she also was sorry for causing pain to Max Mosley's wife, who was apparently unaware of the activities.

"No money is worth the sort of trouble and anguish it's caused everybody," the woman told Britain's Sky News, saying she was paid $40,000 by the News of the World to film the sex session. "I have been stupid, naive, and I wish I'd never done it."

She said her actions had prompted her husband to resign from MI5 where he had worked as a surveillance officer.

"He actually resigned to save any embarrassment for the service. He decided that the best thing to do was just be right and resign and save them any embarrassment," she said.

A British judge ruled Thursday that the tabloid breached the motorsport chief's privacy with a story claiming that the orgy he took part in had a Nazi theme. The newspaper now faces a legal bill of almost $2 million after Judge David Eady ordered it to pay damages and Mosley's legal costs, as well as its own.

Eady said he found no evidence that Mosley's role playing encounter with five women was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behavior.

The blonde middle-aged woman told Sky there had been no Nazi overtones, though Mosley took part in a German prison scenario where other women wore German uniforms and spoke German. Mosley is the son of the late Oswald Mosley, Britain's leading fascist politician in the 1930s and a friend of Adolf Hitler.

"I know for a fact, that it was spoken about, that Max actually found it quite a turn-on to speak to them in German. He liked the German language. It was prison uniforms because we were doing a German prison scene. But it wasn't Nazi," said the woman.

She said she saw the filming for the News of the World as an "opportunity."

"I spoke to my husband. It was going to be more of a joke situation than anything. I didn't know how big it was going to be. And I certainly didn't know how big the response would be over Max Mosley and the importance of him."

She said she knew her actions had caused great damage to Mosley's family.

"I feel really sorry for Mrs. Mosley and her family. It's devastating for her. She didn't ask for this and I'm very sorry that it came out as it did. I don't think enough sorries could make up for this. I do feel responsible."

The News of the World said Friday that it had believed the orgy had Nazi overtones when it published its story.

"Woman E's signed witness statement said not only was she told to expect a German theme to the party with Mr. Mosley, but also that she was told that Mr. Mosley had asked for a German Nazi style scene," News of the World spokesman Hayley Barlow said in a statement.

"This is what the News of the World believed was the position."

She said the News of the World now accepted the court ruling that there was no Nazi theme in the sex games.

The video of the scene involved bondage, beating and domination.

The footage has been viewed millions of times on the Internet, and extracts were played during Mosley's weeklong court hearing against the newspaper.

Some of the participants wore striped prison-style uniforms and one dominatrix wore a German Luftwaffe jacket.

Mosley told the court he had an interest in sadomasochism going back 45 years, but said he found the idea of Nazi sex fantasies abhorrent. He said he and the women acted out a German prison scenario, with no Nazi overtones.

Mosley, 68, said the ruling exposed "the Nazi lie upon which the News of the World sought to justify their disgraceful intrusion into my private life."