Emil Savundra

Insurance Company Failure - Actuaries He lived a lavish high-profile lifestyle before FAM eventually collapsed due to failure of cash flow and subsequent exposure by the Sunday Times Insight Team of the lack of proper securities. This lavish lifestyle had included racing powerboats including in the Daily Express Cowes-to-Torquay powerboat race where he mixed with rich and powerful figures of the time, who were unsure what to make of Savundra - a character from the Far East. There are many photographs of him posing with such figures. In his first race he fractured his spine and was referred by one of his high society friends to an osteopath called Stephen Ward. This is when he became involved with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies and Savundra is referred to at Stephen Ward's trial as 'the Indian doctor'. Scandal (1989) Because the scandal centered around the Minister of War, women-escorts, the Russian defence attache, a famous actress, a senior member of the House of Lords and so many other society figures, Savundra did not come to great attention although Keeler and Rice-Davies have published their accounts including Savundra in their autobiographies and this may be when Private Eye began to notice Savundra's activities in London, which arguably was the beginning of his downfall. It is perhaps notable that Savundra's eventual nemesis, the renowned interviewer David Frost, posed in a photograph in the classic Christine Keeler shot for the BBC's That Was The Week That Was, both photographs having been taken by Lewis Morley. Read Less