Millionaire UK media figure convicted of attempting to rape Brit woman at chalet after victim gives harrowing account
MILLIONAIRE UK journalist Taki Theodoracopulos has been convicted of attempting to rape a British woman and given a 12 month suspended prison sentence.
The victim gave a harrowing account of the incident that happened in a multi-million pound chalet in the Swiss Alps saying she felt like a “piece of meat”.
The media man, known for his Spectator columns, was given the sentence, that’s been suspended for two years by a Swiss judge for the filthy crime he committed in 2009 but still strongly denies.
The married 87-year-old was found guilty of attacking the British woman, who can’t be named, on a ski weekend in Gstaad.
During the long nine hour hearing on Thursday, the multimillionaire shipping mogul said the woman’s claims were “monstrous” and that she was trying to destroy his career.
The heartbroken victim cried in court as she spoke about the assault.
She said: “I felt like a piece of meat.
“I didn’t feel that he saw me as a person at all.
“I tried very hard to put the incident behind me but it really shook my confidence professionally and it has had ongoing emotional consequences.”
Theodoracopulos, invited two friends and the victim to his Gstaad home where he was “very charming and talkative” according to the original police statement.
The woman started to feel uneasy by his attempts to kiss her and him popping up into the guest room as the poor victim was having a shower.
She said, holding back tears: “I tried to brush him off as discreetly as possible.
“It was embarrassing, but I didn’t feel threatened or frightened at all.
“He stared at us while we were naked and made unpleasant remarks, but at the time we just thought he was being ridiculous.”
But when the karate black belt followed her into her room at the end of the night the victim got scared by the then 73-year-olds aggressive attitude after she rejected another unwanted kiss and asked him to leave.
She said: “He came towards the bed and started kissing me again.
“I just thought he was being silly, and then he pushed me down on the bed and he was saying to me ‘I want to fuck you.
“Come on, I want to fuck you’.
The victim felt helpless because of the much bigger man and his clear intentions.
She carried on: “It was very physical.
“I was really frightened because he was a very strong man, and I thought it would be easy if I just let him do it so he didn’t hurt me.
“But I kept on pushing him away from me and eventually he stopped and I told him in a quiet voice to leave the room.”
The brave woman explained that she waited a decade to finally report the attack to the Met police because she didn’t want people thinking she was making it all up.
She told the court: “I didn’t think anyone would believe me.
“The accused was, is, a wealthy and powerful man.
“I thought everyone would think I was lying and I was trying to make my way in.
“I thought I shouldn’t have accepted the invitation, I shouldn’t have gone, and that if I tried to say something everyone would say it was my own fault.”
In his sentencing remarks, the judge said her courage to speak up was “stringent and credible” and that she had no motive to make a false accusation.
The Greek-born writer was also ordered to pay court costs and compensation to the victim.
His lawyer indicated that they would appeal against the verdict.
His controversial “High Life” column he’s been writing since 1977 is expected to be axed from the famous British paper.
He is a well-known figure in the glitzy resort of Gstaad, living in a 250 metre-square property called Chalet Palataki, which translates to Chalet Palace.
Theodoracopulos was first questioned by Swiss police in February last year.
He and his wife went to a hearing with a Swiss prosecutor in July followed by the alleged victim.
Last month, he told a Swiss journalist: “All my life I’ve never been accused of anything like this but now, with #MeToo, suddenly we’re all guilty.”
Theodoracopulos a close friend of disgraced US film producer Harvey Weinstein defended his buddy when multiple women came forward to make complaints of sexual abuse.
He once said that “everyone comes crawling out of the woodwork” when Weinstein started to get accused, even by “an ugly waitress” as he put it.
When asked if he had any final words Theodoracopulos said: “It’s a great travesty of justice and I shouldn’t be here.
“I’m a Christian and I don’t hold grudges but I might make an exception in this case.”
The journalist has been in hot water before when he claimed black people had lower IQs than other people.
And was also arrested for having cocaine in 1984 after trying to get on a plane at Heathrow.
The nonsense act got him three months in prison at HMP Pentonville.