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We weren’t called News of the Screws for nothing.” “Something on Prince Andrew would have made Maz salivate-especially if it had any kind of kinky sex, which was super for circulation. “The royals were such a lucrative source of salacious stories, always shagging various people who weren’t husbands or wives and getting divorced in that period,” says Paul McMullan.

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In late November or December 2010, the tip that would rock the House of Windsor is believed to have come directly to Mahmood: Prince Andrew, Duke of York-known in the tabloids as “Randy Andy” and “the Royal Lout-About Town,” thanks to his serial dating and practical joking-was in America, embarking upon an unofficial four-day trip to New York City. Mahmood would go on to be sentenced to 15 months in prison for tampering with police evidence in his drug sting of a British pop star. By then, the News of the World had crashed and closed. “During my career at the paper I was responsible for over 250 criminal prosecutions, including of pedophiles, people traffickers, drug dealers, pimps and even a doctor who took me on as a hitman to murder his former mistress and was jailed for attempted murder,” he would later tell the 2011 public inquiry occasioned by the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. Best known as the Fake Sheik, he costumed himself in Arabic robes and an array of other disguises and guises to entrap the rich, royal, and reprehensible into doing naughty things on his hidden cameras. Photograph by Jae Donnelly.Ī sex, sin, and scandal machine the likes of which the world had never known, the fiery London-based tabloid had 5 million readers, 30 hotly competitive bloodhound reporters, and one true superstar: Mazher “Maz” Mahmood. Soderbergh shot the film himself, as he has often done, and his cinematography draws ravishingly beautiful distinctions between total darkness and a palette of brooding colors that represent the participants’ plights.Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, photographed together in Central Park by Jae Donnelly on December 5, 2010. Whenever it shows or streams in years to come, I know I’ll be happily in its thrall.Īt its simplest the story concerns someone looking for someone to do some reliable work, meaning a shadowy piece of business-extracting an unspecified document from an office safe-commissioned by a shadowy middleman, Brendan Fraser’s Jones, on behalf of an anonymous employer. Yet it’s another Soderbergh film whose allure is sure to endure. An exceedingly convoluted crime thriller set in 1954, and streaming on HBO Max, this is pitch-black noir with so many betrayals that the characters can’t fathom the various plots they’re caught up in. The director’s latest, “No Sudden Move,” takes place entirely in Detroit, though romance is hardly the mode. Whatever I’m doing must stop while I watch at least a few minutes of Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 comedy of interstate criminal behavior, with a peerlessly romantic encounter between Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney that plays out in a Detroit hotel lounge on a snowy winter night.

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Every time “Out of Sight” turns up on TV I’m hooked once again.

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