ORGY kingpin “Fast Eddie” Davenport has stopped cops from shutting down his £15million mansion where he throws raucous sex parties.
The self-styled lord, 58, was slapped with a closure notice at the lavish Mayfair home police were called to the debauched bashes 63 times.
Olivia West – The SunOrgy king “Fast Eddie” Davenport has won his case against the Met Police[/caption]
The Playboy hosts notorious sex parties at his mansion
There were also two reported rapes at the property that do not involve Davenport.
One is currently under investigation, while the other was dropped due to a lack of evidence.
The home has also been linked to murders – including the death of a bouncer stabbed while trying to stop gatecrashers.
Davenport jetted back from Thailand to successfully fight the order at City of London Magistrates’ Court.
As a young entrepreneur, Davenport staged the infamous Gatecrasher parties in the 1980s.
His bashes became the stuff of legend with punters enjoying anything from group sex to bondage and swinging in one night.
Davenport once bragged of one orgy that featured 300 people and he boasted about always having “gorgeous” women at his home.
In 2015, he sold the 24-bedroom mansion to pay the Serious Fraud Office £14million after being jailed for a sophisticated scam.
He owns the freehold across the road and used this property to continue his partying.
Neighbours complained about the all-night parties and claim they are subjected to extremely loud music, revellers taking drugs and vomiting in the street.
But in court, Davenport said he actually throws art events each month for 100 people that rarely finish late.
He added: “I have got quite a high social profile, I like going out and people would come back to the property with me.”
The court was told a man was allegedly murdered in Lewisham after leaving one of the parties.
He had tried to protect other guests from being robbed after they were followed when he was bottled in the neck.
PC Hannah Fordham, a Neighbourhood officer with the Metropolitan Police, also explained how the property was also linked to the two rapes.
This includes one in July this year that is currently being investigated after a woman claimed she blacked out in one of the bathrooms.
In 2020, three men were jailed for killing Romanian bouncer Tudor Simionov, 33, outside the mansion.
YUPPIE YOUNGSTER TO SEEDY SHOWMAN: FAST EDDIE’S RISE TO THE TOP
For years ‘Lord’ Edward Davenport has claimed to be part of the British aristocracy – but the closest he has ever got to being a member of the landed gentry is a picture with Fergie.
Davenport was raised the son of a Chelsea restauranteurs and gained a ‘Lord’ title when he bought a country pile.
Like his high-class mates, he went to posh private schools but made his own fortune thanks to a ruthless eye for a deal and an obsession with cash.
A fresh-faced 20-year-old Davenport burst onto the scene of London’s elite by throwing the infamous Gatecrasher balls in the 1980s.
The young entrepreneur would hold debauched toff-filled club nights where the teenage sons and daughters of tycoons, Lords and lawyers would dance, drink and romp the night away.
Young yuppie Fast Eddie quickly found himself the toast of the Sloane set and on his way to making his first millions.
However, it wouldn’t be too long until he found himself in trouble with the taxman.
In 1990, he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to nine months in jail.
But once out of prison he was back to doing what he knew best: making money.
Soon he would be boasting a vast property empire with multiple pubs on the exclusive King’s Road, a club in Derby and pawn-broking business in Mayfair.
At his financial height he was rumoured to be worth around £100M.
But one building would change his image forever– a 110-room mansion in Portland Place, central London.
Davenport bought a 58-year lease on the property for an outrageously cheap £50K from the cash-strapped Sierra Leonean government in 1999.
Explaining the deal, he told The Times: “The diplomats were so poor they were working as minicab drivers.
“I started to pay their bills, fix the roof, that kind of thing. No one else would touch it.”
But while he made out like he was doing the Sierra Leonean’s a favour – in fact this was just another sign of Fast Eddie’s trademark eye for a deal.
As civil war ravaged the West African country, six years later he snapped it up for a meagre £3.75million – its current worth is believed to be around ten times that.
Davenport then transformed the building into a den of deviancy.
But couples in bondage gear were not the only roles played in the sprawling Georgian mansion – Fast Eddie also made buck or two from hiring out to film directors, musicians and models.
His old mate Kate Moss posed for Agent Provocateur in one of its reception rooms and the Oscar-winning King’s Speech was also filmed in its billiard room.
But despite the orgies, mansions, and Ferraris – life has not been all champagne and supermodels for Fast Eddie.
He was convicted of a multi-million-pound loans swindle in 2011 and became known as ‘Lord Fraud’.
It was reported that he promised to lend clients millions and charged vast securities fees, but loans were never paid out and he kept £4million.
Davenport was sentenced to seven years but served three after getting early release on health grounds – becoming one of the few prisoners in the UK to receive a kidney transplant.
But typically, Fast Eddie claimed he even found a way to cheat the prison system – gorging on smuggled lobster dinners from his cell and passing the time by playing badminton.
On release he was forced to sell his beloved Portland Place to meet a £10.9million court confiscation order.
He has now gone back to throwing sex parties across London’s poshest enclaves.
Gatecrashers had turned violent after being denied entry to the £2,000-a-table champagne party on New Year’s Day.
Davenport said he would have spoken to neighbours if they had approached him to complain.
He added: “I am absolutely certain there is no illegal activity (at the parties).”
In his ruling, the judge said he was not satisfied the case for closure had been proved.
HandoutDavenport sold his mansion after a fraud conviction but still uses a property opposite[/caption]
Central NewsPolice were called 63 times to parties at the home[/caption]
Central NewsDavenport claims he hosts art parties[/caption]
Olivia West – The SunThe Playboy’s bashes are notorious[/caption]
Lord Davenport at the Box in Soho for a Halloween party