Want Internet exposure? Small ad budget? Visit www.adultcybermart.com/Home.html
from www.rgj.com – The woman who claimed in a lawsuit that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her and Harrah’s Lake Tahoe management covered it up allegedly bragged about having consensual sex with him to a co-worker, according to court documents filed late Friday.
In a sworn statement attached to a motion to move the case to Douglas County, Angela Antonetti said that Andrea McNulty [pictured], the woman who made the rape claim, “did not appear to be upset, stressed-out or nervous” about having “been with” Roethlisberger during the 2008 American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament.
Instead, McNulty “appeared happy and boastful” about it, and later said she thought she might be pregnant from the encounter, the affidavit said.
“Rather than indicating that she was afraid or apprehensive about this, Andrea expressed to me that she was hoping for a ‘little Roethlisberger,'” said Antonetti, who worked with McNulty at Harrah’s between 2006 and 2009.
Reached late Friday, McNulty’s lawyer, Cal Dunlap, said he had not seen the documents and declined to comment.
McNulty filed the lawsuit in Washoe District Court on July 17, claiming that she was working as a VIP hostess during the tournament when Roethlisberger asked her to come to his room to fix his television. She said he raped her and then told her to leave.
She said she reported it to Harrah’s security chief Guy Hyder the next day, but nothing was done. Her lawsuit claims eight members of Harrah’s management, including casino president John Koster, conspired to cover up the alleged attack.
Her lawsuit said that she went into a deep depression after the alleged attack, and spent months in and out of hospitals.
But the motion, filed by Roethlisberger’s Nevada lawyer, John Echeverria, said that her claims were an attempt to exploit his celebrity status, in the hope of “securing an extortionate payday.”
Antonetti said McNulty’s emotional collapse had nothing to do with a rape but resulted from a failed relationship with a married man and then a long-distance relationship that turned out to be a hoax.
Antonetti said that allegedly eight months before the golf tournament, McNulty allegedly told her she was having an affair with a married man named Fritz but that she had to end it after his wife found out, which left her “quite upset.”
Soon after, Antonetti said, McNulty spoke of having an online romance with a soldier named Ben who was stationed in Iraq. She said McNulty told people at Harrah’s that she was in love with him, and that he was coming to South Lake Tahoe in September 2008.
But after the tournament, Antonetti said, McNulty received an e-mail from his account that said “Gotcha” and said the soldier never existed. She said McNulty believed the hoax was orchestrated by Fritz’s wife.
Antonetti said McNulty became “very emotionally distraught” afterward, and took a leave of absence from Harrah’s. She said McNulty later said she planned to sue Harrah’s, and Antonetti said that when she heard about the claims against Roethlisberger, she wanted “to set the story straight.”