Max Mosley's son found dead from suspected overdose

The elder son of F1 chief Max Mosley has been found dead from a suspected drugs overdose.
Alexander Mosley, 39, was confirmed dead after police were called to his home in Notting Hill, West London, yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesman said that the body of a male in his late thirties had been discovered by officers. Police were called by a relative who discovered Dr Mosley, a respected economist, collapsed in a room. Paramedics were called but could not revive him and he was declared dead at the scene.
Steve Abrams, 70, a retired psychologist who lives opposite the house, told ­thelondonpaper: “I saw two men go into the flat and about an hour later there were rows of police outside and an ambulance. They stayed for a couple of hours and I wasn’t sure what was going on.”
Mr Mosley, a former pupil at ­Westminster School and an Oxford graduate, co-founded the Hereford Road restaurant in Westbourne Grove two years ago with school friend and chef Tom Pemberton.
Friend Alexia Collen said: “He was a beautiful person and that’s all I can say.”
Others described him as a “maths genius” but said he had previously battled drug problems.
The death is not being treated as suspicious but police are not formally identifying the victim as not all next of kin have been informed.
Scotland Yard said: "We were called at 16.20pm on Tuesday to reports of a male found dead at a property in W11. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The man is in his late thirties.
"We believe we know the identity of the deceased. The Coroner's office has been informed."
As the president of the world governing body of motorsport, the Fédération Internationale de l’Auto-mobile (FIA), Max Mosley is one of the most powerful men in world motor racing.
He faced a stream of lurid headlines last year when The News of the World reported how the 69-year-old spent five hours with five prostitutes in an underground “torture chamber” in Chelsea indulging in sado-masochistic sex.
The son of the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley he married a policeman's daughter Joan Taylor at the age of 20 and was called to the bar in 1964. A career in law did not appeal and a life in politics proved impossible because of his ancestry.
His wife introduced him to motor racing by taking him to see the British driver Stirling Moss and and he worked his way up the hierarchy throughout the 1970s and 80s. The couple had two sons - Alexander and Patrick, who was born in 1972. His wife and sons were said to have been devastated by the revelations about Mr Mosley's sexual activities.
He was elected president of FIA in 1993 and, after four successive terms in office, he resisted calls to resign after the and has vowed to stay until October 2009.
A spokesman for London Ambulance confirmed they were called just after 4pm to a domestic address and sent an ambulance and a fast response car "but sadly the patient was dead".
Source:The times