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PARIS -- FIA president Max Mosley won't be on duty at the official dinner and prize-giving ceremony for the Monaco Grand Prix next week.
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He will attend the Formula One race, his first since a British tabloid reported last month that he engaged in sex acts with five prostitutes that involved Nazi role-playing. But FIA deputy president Marco Piccinini will be his organization's representative at the ceremonial functions.
"At the request of the FIA president, the FIA was represented by Mr. Marco Piccinini ... during this year's Monte Carlo Rally at the prize giving and gala dinner," the Automobile Club of Monaco said in a statement Friday.
"The ACM was informed some time ago that it was agreed between Mr. Mosley and Mr. Piccinini that the same procedure would be adopted for the Monaco Grand Prix."
Mosley, who is suing the News of the World newspaper, admits visiting the prostitutes but denies there was any Nazi connotation. The FIA will hold a secret general assembly vote on his future in Paris on June 3.
Mosley stayed away from last month's Spanish GP.
Britain's Daily Mail reported Friday that members of the Monaco royal family told Mosley he is not welcome at the race, and that they will refuse to even shake his hand.
A spokesman for the Monaco Royal Palace dismissed the report, saying no one in the royal family has spoken out directly about the matter. The spokesman asked not to be named because of palace policy.
Member federations from the United States and South Africa have publicly called on Mosley to step down. Two-hundred-and twenty-two national motoring member organizations from 130 countries will get a chance to decide at the extraordinary meeting on June 3.
Mosley is the son of British Union of Fascists party founder Oswald Mosley, a former British politician who served in Parliament for the Labour and Conservative parties. Oswald Mosley, who had Adolf Hitler as a guest at his wedding, died in 1980.
