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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Husband of Russian model who accused Putin of trying to kill her with rat poison at Salibsury Prezzo is an old business partner of playboy conman 'Fast Eddie'

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:53 EDT, 19 September 2018 | Updated: 19:16 EDT, 19 September 2018



The latest poison plot in Salisbury may not be quite all it seems.

A Russian model and her British husband became violently ill at the weekend after dining in the city’s Prezzo restaurant and claimed they were the victims of a Russian terror attack, just like ex-spy Sergei Skripal.

However, the couple — Anna Shapiro and Alex King — have a very colourful background. For I can reveal King, 42, is an old business partner of notorious fraudster Eddie Davenport, the playboy conman known as ‘Fast Eddie’.

Davenport was given an eight-year jail sentence in 2011 for a £4.5 million fraud. Alex King and Lord Edward Davenport are old business partners. Davenport - also known as 'Fast Eddie' was given an eight-year jail sentence in 2011 for a £4.5 million fraud Russian model Anna Shapiro claimed that Vladimir Putin tried to kill her and husband Alex King with rat poison at a Salisbury Prezzo restaurant Model Shapiro is business partners with her husband and claims to be the daughter of a former Russian general




Among his 51 victims was Princess Diana’s wedding dress designer Elizabeth Emanuel.

Davenport, who made his name running the Gatecrasher Balls for public school teens, was released from Wandsworth after three years.

Before Fast Eddie was sent to prison, King lived with him at his 24-bedroom, £14 million home in London, 33 Portland Place, used as a location for the film The King’s Speech.

It was also the setting for fashion shoots and riotous parties. Russian model Anna Shapiro with husband Alex King. She reportedly moved to London in 2008 and met Alex soon after 33, Portland Place, London, the former £14 million home of Eddie Davenport, which he was said to have used as a venue for sex parties and lived with King before he was jailed A police officer stands guard outside the Prezzo restaurant in Salisbury where a major incident was declared after the pair were taken ill

King, who ran a modelling agency, was exposed by a newspaper as ‘an ambassador of perversion’ for hosting orgies at the house and hiring out Russian girls for sex at £500 a day.

Shapiro, 30, his business partner who claims to be the daughter of a former Russian general, reportedly moved to London in 2008 and met Alex soon after.

They are said to have married only last month.

King apparently won a £100,000 bet for gatecrashing the royal film premiere of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, where he introduced himself to Prince Charles.

Born Alex Ainley, son of Irish businessman Shaun Ainley, he changed his name to King when he found out his biological father was a German baron, Freddie von Nidda.

‘He races around after this Davenport fellow trying to emulate him,’ said von Nidda in 2006. ‘He wants an easy life and easy money.’ Anna Shapiro was with husband Alex King when the pair claimed to be ill at a Salisbury Prezzo restaurant - just like ex-spy Sergei Skripal



Husband of Russian model who said she was poisoned at Salibsury Prezzo linked to conman 'Fast Eddie'
