Orgy kingpin ‘Fast Eddie’ Davenport STOPS cops shutting down £15m Mayfair mansion notorious for raucous sex parties

For years ‘Lord’ Edward Davenport has claimed to be part of the British aristocracy – but the closest he has ever got to being a member of the landed gentry is a picture with Fergie.

Davenport was raised the son of a Chelsea restauranteurs and gained a ‘Lord’ title when he bought a country pile.

Like his high-class mates, he went to posh private schools but made his own fortune thanks to a ruthless eye for a deal and an obsession with cash.

A fresh-faced 20-year-old Davenport burst onto the scene of London’s elite by throwing the infamous Gatecrasher balls in the 1980s.

The young entrepreneur would hold debauched toff-filled club nights where the teenage sons and daughters of tycoons, Lords and lawyers would dance, drink and romp the night away.

Young yuppie Fast Eddie quickly found himself the toast of the Sloane set and on his way to making his first millions.

However, it wouldn’t be too long until he found himself in trouble with the taxman.

In 1990, he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to nine months in jail.

But once out of prison he was back to doing what he knew best: making money.

Soon he would be boasting a vast property empire with multiple pubs on the exclusive King’s Road, a club in Derby and pawn-broking business in Mayfair.

At his financial height he was rumoured to be worth around £100M.

But one building would change his image forever– a 110-room mansion in Portland Place, central London.

Davenport bought a 58-year lease on the property for an outrageously cheap £50K from the cash-strapped Sierra Leonean government in 1999.

Explaining the deal, he told The Times: “The diplomats were so poor they were working as minicab drivers.

“I started to pay their bills, fix the roof, that kind of thing. No one else would touch it.”

But while he made out like he was doing the Sierra Leonean’s a favour – in fact  this was just another sign of Fast Eddie’s trademark eye for a deal.

As civil war ravaged the West African country, six years later he snapped it up for a meagre £3.75million – its current worth is believed to be around ten times that.

Davenport then transformed the building into a den of deviancy.

But couples in bondage gear were not the only roles played in the sprawling Georgian mansion – Fast Eddie also made buck or two from hiring out to film directors, musicians and models.

His old mate Kate Moss posed for Agent Provocateur in one of its reception rooms and the Oscar-winning King’s Speech was also filmed in its billiard room.

But despite the orgies, mansions, and Ferraris - life has not been all champagne and supermodels for Fast Eddie.

He was convicted of a multi-million-pound loans swindle in 2011 and became known as ‘Lord Fraud’.

It was reported that he promised to lend clients millions and charged vast securities fees, but loans were never paid out and he kept £4million.

Davenport was sentenced to seven years but served three after getting early release on health grounds - becoming one of the few prisoners in the UK to receive a kidney transplant.

But typically, Fast Eddie claimed he even found a way to cheat the prison system – gorging on smuggled lobster dinners from his cell and passing the time by playing badminton.

On release he was forced to sell his beloved Portland Place to meet a £10.9million court confiscation order.

He has now gone back to throwing sex parties across London’s poshest enclaves.