UK- [Gambling911.com]- Soccer boss David Sullivan admitted he had been "sexually touching" a woman who pressed charges against him for sexual assault. Sullivan was arrested on Tuesday afternoon. A 25-year-old claimed she had been molested at his house the previous evening.
Mr Sullivan voluntarily attended a police station close to his home in Theydon Bois, Essex, with his solicitor, according to the London Sun Newspaper.
He said: “I refute all the allegations. The allegation is that I touched somebody. The question is, ‘Did you touch with consent or without?’
“My argument is that it was with consent.”
He further added:
Mr Sullivan added: “I’m a rich person so I’m a target for this sort of thing. That is the world we live in.”
Three months ago he was questioned by police in connection with the soccer “bungs” probe.
He denied any wrongdoing then too.
In 1993, Sullivan bought into Birmingham City F.C. with David Gold and Ralph Gold. However, in 2007 Sullivan expressed his desire to sell his share in the club. Gold stated he had three reasons for why he wanted to leave. "One, the geographical distance. I've said for years the journey to Birmingham is killing me. Two, I think deep down the public have had enough of us. They think we should have mortgaged our houses to buy more players to compete with Chelsea and Arsenal. The honeymoon is long over and we're at the divorce stage now, unfortunately. And I also feel we've had no support from Birmingham council."
In April 2008, Sullivan and Birmingham City F.C. managing director Karren Brady were released on bail after being arrested by City of London Police and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting in connection with an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption in English football.
Sullivan may be better known as a "porn baron". By the mid-1970s Sullivan was in control of half of the adult magazine market.[1] In the late 1970s he produced several low-budget British sex movies including Come Play with Me (1977) (directed by Harrison Marks), The Playbirds (1978), Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) and Queen of the Blues (1979), all starring his then-girlfriend Mary Millington. After Mary's suicide in August 1979 he went on to produce Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions (1980) and Emmanuelle in Soho (1981).
