Fast Eddie’s back ... with his £80 latex and leather sex parties
HE WAS once a stalwart on the London social scene, hosting A-list stars until he was jailed over a multi-million-pound fraud.
Now ‘Fast’ Eddie Davenport, 55, is back, and far from keeping a low profile he is hosting exclusive sex parties at his mansion in Marylebone. He has relaunched his London revels and this month hosted a 300guest sex party called Passing Fancies. Clients had to be nominated by someone who had previously been to one of Davenport’s nights.
‘Only beautiful people come, only beautiful people are allowed in. Money is no object to these people,’ he says of his events. Although the parties seem hardly exclusive, with entry costing £80.
The party’s private Instagram account doesn’t make it clear that Davenport is behind it, and one guest told me she was shocked to see him at the most recent party, where attendees were encouraged to explore their ‘hedonistic impulses’.
The invitation to next week’s party, which runs from 11pm until 6am, says: ‘Costumes strictly necessary… latex, leather and fur always welcome.’ There will also be a dungeon and dominatrix.
Davenport, a self-styled lord, tells me that during the pandemic, he ran events in Thailand, but now that restrictions have been eased in London his parties are ‘booming again’.
He left for Thailand in 2019, weeks after a bouncer was stabbed to death outside a Park Lane event he had hosted on New Year’s Day.
Davenport, a property developer who started his nightlife career in 1986 by founding the raucous Gatecrashers Ball for posh teenagers when he was just 20, was sentenced in 2011 to more than seven years in jail for running a finance firm called Gresham. It conned clients out of fees as large as £285,000 for sorting out huge loans they never received. The judge described him as a ‘very, very dishonest man’ over the £4.5 million fraud.
However, Davenport served only three years because he fell ill and had to undergo two kidney transplants.
In 2001, the government of Sierra Leone said that while the country was locked in a civil war, it had been tricked into selling him its high commission in Portland Place for £50,000 – when it was actually worth £5 million.