Sports Agent Jonathan Barnet, accused of rape in US court case

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Adam Fudglie - AMA/West Bromwich Albion FC through Getty Images Barnett with thin white hair, dressed in darkened glasses, dark overalls, white shirt and blue tie, stands in front of a microphone in 2018. Adam Fradglie – AMA/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images

Barnet denies the woman’s allegations that he kept her as a “sexual slave”

British high -profile sports agent Jonathan Barnet has been accused of raping a woman more than 39 times in American case.

In a civil complaint filed with the US District Court in Los Angeles, an unnamed woman, called “Jane Doe,” says G -n Barnet, “transferred her” from Australia to the United Kingdom in 2017, “tortured” and kept it a “sexual slave” for a period of six years.

She says that Barnett has made “repeated threats to his life and the lives of her minor children.”

The 75-year-old, known for being leading football players, including Gareth Bale and Jack you are you argued, says the accusations “have no basis for reality and are not incorrect.”

“We will vigorously defend this case through the right legal process. I look forward to being completely avenged and blamed,” a statement from his lawyers said.

Barnet was ranked as the most powerful sports agent in the world in 2019 by Forbes magazine.

The civil case was brought on Wednesday.

According to court documents, the couple first met in the 1990s through a professional athlete in London and re -connects online and then personally in 2017.

Within a few weeks, she moved to the United Kingdom with her teenage children – with a CAA Stellar sports agency, headed by Barnett, covering moving costs.

The submission says that after her arrival, he told her that he had “owned her” and raped her in a hotel room.

Barnet continued to impose strict rules to obey him at any time, calling him “my master” and “I never say it hurts,” according to the trial.

The complaint continues to describe suspected humiliating actions that include drinking urine or a federation of admission.

The supposed torture also included the woman “tied overnight without food or water.”

She says she was “trafficking, threatened, tortured and detained” in slavery in various places around the world, including Los Angeles, from 2017 to 2023.

“Realizing that she is powerless against a dangerous predator, Da -Dow introduced to Barnet so that she would not be very lifestyle or even killed,” the lawsuit said.

Jane Doe also sues the Hollywood Talents Creative Agency and CAA Stellar Sports Agency, where Barnett was the executive chairman until his retirement last year.

The court documents state that CAA Stellar’s Country, Talent Agencies ICM and CAA companies have failed to find and intentionally or recklessly do not comply with significant payments between 2017 and 2023, although the woman is not an athlete or agent.

Barnet is said to call her “slave” in emails sent by his work account.

The court documents say that G -n Barnet used his “money and power to maintain forced control” over the woman who was “fear of the life and life of her children.”

Jane Dow’s attorneys say the case is “institutional abuse at the highest level”.

They are looking for compensation on her behalf.

According to the La Times, CAA said he first heard about the woman’s allegations last year when her lawyers made demands for settlement – and the press was interested.

“Although the complaint tries to link these allegations to CAA’s business, D -Ja Doe has never been an employee, consultant or CAA, ICM or Stellar contractor, nor has ever had a business connection to CAA, ICM or Stellar,” the statement said.

“CAA seriously accepts all statements of this nature and, through a lawyer, immediately called on Da DOE to contact the United Kingdom law enforcement authorities.”

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