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Brooklyn Nets Player, Friends Partied At Strip Club Before Alleged Sexual Assault In Hotel
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 9, 2013
Modified Jan 9, 2013
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Yesterday, Brooklyn Nets forward Andray Blatche was questioned about a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in a hotel suite he reserved in Philadelphia. While the Philadelphia Police Commissioner told the NY Times yesterday that Blatche "was not personally involved in any kind of assault or anything like that" and characterized the accuser as "so intoxicated," Philly cops are now keeping quiet about its investigation.
The NY Daily News inquired about the investigation and received this email, "The Philadelphia Police Department will not release any detailed information regarding the investigation, nor will we release names of any person or person(s) potentially involved (victims, suspects, witness, etc). The information given yesterday was very preliminary and early in this investigation." Yet Police Commissioner Charles Ramsay was comfortable enough to chat with the Times about the accuser yesterday, declaring, "She is not going to be a very good witness... She is being formally interviewed right now."
The accuser, 21, may be a stripper at the gentlemen's club Delilah's—the Post reports, "Sources said the woman, a stripper at a Philly club where Blatche, 26, and a handful of friends were celebrating his contract being guaranteed through the end of the season, followed the group back to the Four Seasons hotel suite along with two other exotic dancers." The accuser apparently told the police that she had consensual sex with one man and non-consensual sex with another.
Sources tell ABC Philadelphia says, "investigators found Blatche’s cell phone with what they described as compromising pictures of the alleged victim."
Yesterday, before the Nets beat the Philadelphia 76ers, Blatche told reporters, "I had nothing to do with nothing" and "couldn't even tell [reporters] why" a woman went to the hospital, adding, "Maybe she was sick, I don't know."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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