Tycoon Behind Bid For SPL Club Exposed As Pimp

Jan 20 2008 By Raymond Hainey, Grace Macaskill And Derek Alexander

Businessman Behind Football Buyout Exposed As A Pimp

A TYCOON trying to buy an SPL football club can today be exposed as a sleazy pimp luring women into prostitution.

Neil MacGregor, 35, claims to be a wealthy ex-SAS officer with a bodyguard firm protecting Hollywood stars.

Last week he launched a multi-million pound bid for Inverness Caledonian Thistle after a similar approach to Third Division Elgin City flopped.

But we can reveal that MacGregor operates an internet escort agency hiring Scots girls to sell sex in the US porn industry.

He was snared after trying to groom a Sunday Mail reporter, posing as a recruit, for a life of vice.

Our investigator, who provided a fake CV and photo, agreed to meet MacGregor at Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire but he fled after being confronted.

Before the meeting, he bombarded our girl with sleazy phone calls and asked if she would perform sex acts with clients.

MacGregor also claims to have bedded porn star Jenna Jameson.

He said: "We're bodyguards and we got into this because I used to protect Jenna Jameson. She's the most famous porn actress in the world. I worked with her and we had an affair."

He boasted that "his girls" drove Porsche Carreras and Ferraris and that many were "heading to be millionaires".

MacGregor said: "Do you want to be more than an escort? Do you want to run a department in charge of the girls?

"I'm very upfront. Instead of sleeping with guys to earn some money, because basically you are just a prostitute, would you like to be in charge?

"I will show you how you can become a young lady with no financial problems at all. If you come with me you can be a millionaire in five years. How do you fancy s250,000 a year? If you earn that, you will then double it every year.

"At one point we had 1000 girls on our books. We now have about 200 but we are looking for about 1000.

"I used to be a bodyguard and I said to Jenna when we were in bed together that she could be more. Now she is one of the best porn stars in the world."

Rangers fan MacGregor - using the title of doctor - last year approached Elgin City with a s400,000 takeover bid, s5million investment and a promise to take them to the SPL.

He said: "I want to be the David Murray of Elgin and do what he did for Rangers."

Within days, director Graham Tatters said: "I now believe we have been the victims of a hoax."

Despite claiming to be a millionaire, MacGregor was traced to a modest block of flats in Crieff.

And one of his websites is registered at another rundown flat in Pollokshaws, Glasgow.

On Tuesday, it emerged MacGregor had approached Caley Thistle and offered to build a s10million training facility and 20,000-seater stadium.

Last week he criticised Caley chiefs in a local paper and said he could make the club a top-six side in the SPL.

He said: "They do not want to lose control but they have no money to do anything with it. Either do something with the club or step aside and let someone else do something." MacGregor agreed to meet our investigator on Friday afternoon at Crieff Hydro after supposedly flying in from America.

After being confronted he gave a fake name before threatening to call police, refusing to answer questions then fleeing on foot.

MacGregor said: "You can't do this. This is harassment."

He said later: "I'm not telling you what I'm worth. What I am doing is not illegal."

A senior military source dismissed MacGregor as a fantasist and said there was no record of his army career.

He said: "There is nothing on that name or age group. He's nothing to do with the army or the SAS and that includes the Territorials."

MacGregor only communicated with Elgin - who play in front of around 500 fans - through email and walked away after the club tried to involve lawyers.

Director Tatters, an ex-RAF NCO, said: "The man is a figment of his own imagination.

"Each time we tried to tie him down to a formal offer, he wouldn't do it. If it hadn't been so serious, it would have made a great comedy sketch."

Tatters was also suspicious of MacGregor's army claims.

He said: "He's now removed reference to his army career from the security firm website although it makes a vague reference to special forces."

"It didn't take much investigation to raise lots of red flags about him."

'I can make you a young lady with no financial problems at all' NEIL MACGREGOR TO REPORTER

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