‘Fast Eddie’ hosts sex party days after bouncer’s murder
JUST four days after a murder at a sex party he has been linked to, it was business as usual yesterday for ‘Lord’ Eddie Davenport.
The fraudster’s central London mansion was hosting a party advertising the ‘best girls’ and sexual services.
On New Year’s Day, Tudor Simionov, a 33-year-old bouncer, was knifed to death by a gang who tried to gatecrash a similar event in Park Lane. Witnesses said Davenport, aged 53 and known as ‘Fast Eddie’, was collecting money at the party – a claim dismissed by his lawyers.
Yesterday guests started arriving at 11.30am at his four- storey property in Portland Place for the ‘ London Adult Party Club’.
An online advert detailed what was on offer – and left little to the imagination. First to arrive was a group of young women, followed by burly security guards. The advert said the event would ‘feature only our very best girls’ before adding, in urban slang, what sexual services they would provide.
Three girls were available for the afternoon session – Alice, Iris, Brenda – followed by Malu, Rose and Pink in the evening. A ‘contribution of £100 for single men and £20 for couples and single girls’ was requested.
Organisers promised ‘regular, unadvertised audition girls’ who would be ‘ partying for the very first time’. The LAPC website said it had established ‘a reputation as one of the best places in London to have fun, and not just among guys, but among girls who love to party – unlike many similar events, we always have invitations available for single men’. The self-styled Lord Davenport originally owned another Portland Place address but sold it to settle a court order to pay £14million to the Serious Fraud Office.
He moved across the road to a venue he has since used to host numerous sex parties, including events involving a group called Killing Kittens, a firm set up by Emma Sayle, a schoolfriend of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Davenport made his name running schools. ‘Gatecrasher’ However he balls was for given public an eight-year jail term in September 2011 for a £4.5million fraud. CCTV footage of the New Year’s Day murder showed Mr Simionov scuffling with a group of men who tried to gatecrash the Park Lane event at 5.30am. He died from a stab wound to the chest. Two other security staff aged 37 and 29 – and a 29-year-old woman who was greeting guests – were also knifed. Mr Simionov’s girlfriend plans to take his body back to his native Romania for burial. The son of hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza has been questioned over the murder. Imran Mostafa Kamel, 26, whose father is serving time in a highsecurity US jail, was charged with unconnected firearms offences. Davenport’s lawyer was asked if his client wished to make any comment on the sex party being held in his home but failed to respond.