How Max Mosley helped tame the tabloids The privacy campaigner, who has died at the age of 81, succeeded in changing the media landscape. Goodbye Max Mosley, the motorsport executive who helped bring Rupert Murdoch to his knees and had a huge impact on the tabloid media. Mosley, who has died at the age of 81, was a relatively obscure figure to most until his sexual proclivities were exposed by the News of the World in 2008. At the time, the paper thought the story was an absolute slam dunk and it appeared under the headline: “F1 boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers”.