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Barnett denies the woman's allegations that helium kept her arsenic a "sex slave"
High-profile British sports cause Jonathan Barnett has been accused of raping a pistillate much than 39 times, successful a US lawsuit.
In a civilian ailment lodged astatine a US territory tribunal successful Los Angeles, the unnamed woman, referred to arsenic "Jane Doe", says Mr Barnett "trafficked" her from Australia to the UK successful 2017, "tortured" and kept her arsenic a "sex slave" implicit a six twelvemonth period.
She says Mr Barnett made "repeated threats to her beingness and the lives of her insignificant children".
The 75-year-old known for representing starring footballers including Gareth Bale and Jack Grealish, says the charges "have nary ground successful world and are untrue".
"We volition vigorously support this suit done the due ineligible process. I americium looking guardant to being wholly vindicated and exonerated," a connection from his lawyers said.
Mr Barnett was ranked arsenic the world's astir almighty sports cause successful 2019 by Forbes magazine.
The civilian lawsuit was filed connected Wednesday.
According to tribunal documents, the brace archetypal met successful the 1990s done a nonrecreational jock successful London and reconnected online and past successful idiosyncratic successful 2017.
Within a substance of weeks she relocated to the UK with her teenage children - with sports bureau CAA Stellar, headed by Mr Barnett, covering moving expenses.
The filing says that upon her arrival, helium told her helium "owned" her and raped her successful a edifice room.
Mr Barnett went connected to enforce strict rules to obey him astatine each times, referring to him arsenic "My Master" and to "never accidental it hurts", according to the lawsuit.
The ailment goes connected to picture alleged degrading acts that included drinking urine oregon ingesting faeces.
The alleged torture besides included the pistillate "tied up overnight without nutrient oregon water".
She says she was "trafficked, threatened, tortured, and held" successful bondage successful antithetic locations passim the world, including Los Angeles, from 2017 to 2023.
"Realising she was powerless against a unsafe predator, Ms Doe submitted to Barnett successful bid to debar being severely beaten oregon adjacent killed," the suit said.
"Jane Doe" is besides suing Hollywood endowment steadfast Creative Artists Agency and sports bureau CAA Stellar, wherever Mr Barnett was enforcement president until his status past year.
The tribunal documents authorities the CAA Stellar's genitor companies, endowment agencies ICM and CAA, "failed to find and/or willfully oregon recklessly disregarded" that important payments were made betwixt 2017 and 2023, contempt the pistillate not being an jock oregon agent.
It is claimed Barnett referred to her arsenic "slave" successful emails sent from his enactment account.
Court documents accidental Mr Barnett utilized his "money and powerfulness to support coercive control" implicit the pistillate who was "in fearfulness of her beingness and the lives of her children".
Lawyers for "Jane Doe" authorities the lawsuit is astir "institutional maltreatment astatine the highest level".
They are seeking compensation connected her behalf.
According to LA Times, CAA said it archetypal heard of the woman's allegations past twelvemonth erstwhile her lawyers made colony demands - and the property inquired.
"While the ailment attempts to link these allegations to CAA's business, Ms Doe has ne'er been an employee, consultant, oregon contractor of CAA, ICM, oregon Stellar, nor has she ever had immoderate concern transportation to CAA, ICM, oregon Stellar," CAA said successful its statement.
"CAA takes immoderate allegations of this quality seriously, and done counsel, promptly urged Ms Doe to interaction instrumentality enforcement successful the United Kingdom."
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