WALKING out through the gates of Wandsworth jail, Eddie Davenport gets into a waiting car – and is driven straight to an orgy.
An infamous club promoter, he has just served three years in the South London prison and is dying to get back to his wicked ways with women.
Grinning, he recalls later: “A friend laid on a sex party for me as a welcome home. There were dozens and dozens of beautiful girls and I could have as many as I liked. It was like being a virgin all over again.”
Since he was a teenager, flamboyant Eddie has delighted in organising parties where anything goes, including group sex, swinging and just about any sexual deviancy you could name.
At 20 he founded a company which staged country house parties known as “Gatecrasher Balls”, which became notorious for their posh young guests having drunken sex.
For years the showman has claimed to be part of the British aristocracy but is in fact the son of a Dublin restaurateur, and bought himself a title and started referring to himself as Lord Edward Davenport.
But after being convicted of a multi-million-pound loans swindle in 2011, he became known as Lord Fraud. Just over two years ago he was released from jail early on health grounds after becoming one of the few prisoners in the UK to receive a kidney transplant.
Now 49, he is busy making a comeback on the sex party scene, boasting: “I want to do what I love — organise great parties, meet beautiful women, celebrities and fun people. Everyone doing what they enjoy — having sex. What could be better than that?”
In a new documentary, Wolf of the West End, Eddie talks about his debauched lifestyle, his fall from grace and his determination to get right back on top.
In the programme, made by arts website Vice, he is shown hosting an orgy at his former home — a 110-room mansion in Portland Place, central London, which was formerly the Sierra Leonean embassy.
During the orgy a couple have sex on a billiard table in the library where a scene from the film The King’s Speech was shot, while two girls in nothing but masks pleasure each other on an antique sofa nearby.
But to Eddie the scenes are far from extreme, and he says: “Tame, tame, tame. We had to keep it quite low-key because it was being filmed.”
He has since had to sell the embassy to meet a £10.9million court confiscation order — reduced on appeal from a mindboggling £44million — but the largest orgy he ever hosted there was for 300 people.
He recalls: “We made this massive bed which covered a whole floor of the house. There were masses of people writhing on it, doing all sorts. Body parts all over the place.
“You couldn’t work out who was doing what to who. You just had to jump in and enjoy it.”
At another party a 1,000-gallon lake of cocktails was created in the basement for revellers to row across.
Since giving up the Portland Place mansion Eddie has been living in a £5million-plus penthouse apartment bang opposite the Ritz Hotel in central London.
Dressed in an exquisitely-cut suit and designer brogues, he shows me round his lavish home — which he says belongs to a “wealthy Chinese lady who is backing me” — and proudly points out the “party room” complete with tables laden with champagne buckets, all ready for his next orgy.
He says modestly: “It’s just a small affair, about 100 people. I don’t think the lift could cope with any more.”
He is confident his sex parties will soon have him rolling in it again and says: “They’ve become really popular while I’ve been inside, especially with young, professional, educated women.
“My parties were always full of gorgeous women but there are even more now. Social media has helped. They’ve read about Killing Kittens (the women’s online sex club) and they think, ‘I want a bit of that’.
“They’ve read 50 Shades, they want to experiment, they want fulfilment, they want everything. They don’t wait around for a bloke to take them to an orgy any more, they’re right there at the front of the queue.”
The only problem Eddie can see is that while there are lots of women clamouring for new sexual experiences, there are few men available to help them out. He says: “Men are always full of bravado, saying they want to go to a sex party, but when it comes to it they wimp out.
“The trouble is, I suppose it’s harder — excuse the pun — for men to perform than women. They have to be seen to be putting the effort in, while women can just lie back and enjoy it.
“If you know any good-looking, fit men, can you steer them my way?” Eddie is now organising parties with a friend called Chris, shown in the documentary getting ready for an orgy by putting out condoms, sex toys and mattresses.
The exclusive parties are invitation-only and, according to Eddie, guests include celebrities, lawyers, billionaires and supermodels. He adds: “There were probably a couple of judges too, but I think I’ll ban them from now on.”
In the Nineties he rubbed shoulders with celebs such as Tamara Beckwith and at Portland Place he partied with the likes of Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse, but he is quick to stress that it was only after they had finished shooting music videos. He adds: “It involved absolutely no sex.”
He admits he feared that jail would make him a social pariah but says: “A lot of friends wrote to me and visited, which was good.
“Then I started getting loads of fan mail from women, which was even better. I got them to visit and it was like having a series of blind dates.
“Some didn’t wear knickers so we could have a snog and a fumble.”
On arriving in jail he was given the opportunity to be on the protected wing but he refused and says: “I worried I’d be sharing a cell with a paedophile. Anyway, I thought the other prisoners would be more fun.”
Even so, he also worried that being a “Lord” — genuine or not — might mark him out for trouble from other prisoners, but instead he became something of a hero.
He says: “They just wanted to hear my stories. Quite a few want to come to my parties when they get out.”
His spell in prison was fine, and he tells how he passed his time playing badminton and occasionally managing to enjoy lobster for dinner.
Eddie says: “Don’t ask me how, I don’t want to get any staff into trouble. They were very good to me. I was in there so long it was like being in a hotel in the end.”
Eddie insists he was innocent of the crime he was jailed for — although the judge branded him the “ring- master” of the conspiracy to defraud, with some victims losing millions.
In the documentary one man claims he lost his company, his house and his car as a result of the crime. But Eddie, who is appealing his conviction, says: “I haven’t personally met any of the victims.
“I just invested money in a company but I didn’t know what the person running it was up to. I hate the title Lord Fraud, I much prefer Tycoon of Lust.
“I don’t feel like a criminal because it was a white-collar crime.”
Eddie says he regards the judge as an idiot and claims the jury did not understand the case. He adds: “I think my fame and what I do for a living definitely counted against me. They just saw me as this Fast Eddie character who has fun for a living.”
If his victims believe he was not punished enough for his crimes, they might feel better to learn that with a £44million confiscation order hanging over his head, he was treated as “high risk” in prison.
His health problems — a genetic kidney condition — meant he had to be taken to hospital three times a week for dialysis.
He says: “I was considered at risk of escape because of the money I’d been ordered to pay.
“So when I was in hospital I had one arm with the tube for dialysis in it and the other was handcuffed to a prison warder. Even when I had the kidney transplant I was handcuffed to a guard for 28 days straight. I think everyone in the hospital thought I was a mass murderer.”
Although he has managed to protect much of his property development empire while inside — “There are ways and means”, he says smugly — Eddie is still keen to resurrect his sex party career.
He says: “I don’t know why sex fascinates but it always has. I loved the Gatecrasher days. Even now I get people coming up to me, saying, ‘I lost my virginity at a Gatecrasher ball’. I love that.
“I can’t see myself ever giving up the scene. To me it’s the perfect mix — glamour, gorgeous women and sex. Nothing beats that.”
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