A Paris court has deferred for two weeks its verdict in former world motorsport chief Max Mosley's suit against a British tabloid that accused him of taking part in a Nazi-themed orgy.
The court had been due to rule today in Mosley's defamation action against Rupert Murdoch's News Group, publisher of the now-defunct News of the World, but says it's deferring its decision for technical reasons.
Mosley, 71, already won a case in a British court against News Group, after the News of the World published a front-page story in March 2008 entitled "F1 boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers".
Mosley, whose father led the British fascist party in the 1930s, has acknowledged paying five women for sex, but said the event depicted in the paper was a prison fantasy and challenged the claim that the episode was Nazi-themed.
The British court awarded him $NZ 120,000 in damages.
Mosley subsequently filed suit against News Group in France, which has more strict privacy laws, on charges of defamation and violating his private life. He had been asking for $NZ 350,000 in damages.
