You thought Conrad Black was bad? Meet the real degenerates of Britain's ruling class

THIS LITTLE PIGGY Convicted felon Lord Conrad Black shows his embezzling hand to reporters. He's got nothing on Britain's sex-crazed, drug-addled, degenerate, criminal aristocrats

Following Conrad Black's conviction on Friday for criminal fraud and obstruction of justice, politicians across the pond are now threatening to revoke the British lordship given him by Queen Elizabeth in 2001.

Black, who coveted the title so much he sued the prime minister of Canada for blocking his path to English nobility (and ultimately renounced his Canadian citizenship in order to obtain it), is clearly a rogue and a criminal who stole millions of dollars from innocent shareholders. He may spend the rest of his life in jail, but do his crimes warrant an expulsion from England's elite fraternity of aristocrats? A quick glance at a colorful carousel of British lords who dignified their titles with leather pants, porn stars, grenade launchers, and a colony of prostitutes suggests maybe not.

'SEX MACHINE TO ALL THE CHICKS' The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury and the Tunisian hooker who had him iced

The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) 1938-2004
This descendant of a great 18th century philosopher had a philosophy of his own—enlightenment through booze and hookers. The Earl of Shaftesbury frequently abandoned his palatial estate in England for drunken, Viagra-fueled sprees through the brothels and bars of France. He was known to embark on such journeys clad in leather pants, pink shirts, and large red-and-black designer eyeglasses, brandishing large wads of cash and cheekily pronouncing to all: "I am the Earl of Shaftesbury. I am a millionaire."

He dated many women, including a Penthouse pet, and had three marriages that, of course, ended badly. It was his third, to a Tunisian prostitute, that did him in. The woman, who claims George Clooney and Bruce Willis among her conquests, responded to his desire to leave her for a Moroccan nightclub hostess he had allegedly impregnated by having him killed in 2004. The Earl of Shaftesbury's body was found in a ditch in the French Riviera.

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