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Daily Mail
03-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Real Madrid sex scandal: Lawyers for minor involved in beach club sex video call for FOUR YEARS in prison for star defender Raul Asencio
The lawyers of the girl at the heart of Real Madrid 's sex scandal case are reportedly seeking a four-year prison sentence for defender Raul Asencio. Asencio is accused of sharing a video involving the girl, who was 16 at the time it was filmed, and doing so knowing she did not give her permission for it to be taken. He insists he is innocent. The centre-back has a rising status in the game and started both Champions League semi-final legs against Arsenal after becoming a first-team regular this season. The video was allegedly filmed by former youth team-mates Ferran Ruiz, 22, Andres Garcia, 22, and Juan Rodriguez, 23, in June 2023, involving the girl and another who was 18 at the time. Those three are accused of 'disclosure of secrets without consent, and violation of privacy, distributing and sending videos to third parties without consent, capturing and using minors for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography'. Asencio and the three other players were arrested at Real Madrid's training centre in September 2023 following a complaint lodged by the mother of the 16-year-old girl who appears in the video. Now AS reports that Asensio - who is charged with 'revealing secrets in conjunction with another of child pornography' - could face four years behind bars if he is found guilty. Cadena Cope add that the alleged victim's lawyers want £48,900 in compensation for her and a £16.86 fine per day for 10 months -a request the 18-year-old will also make, the outlet adds. At the time, Spanish media reported that one of the footballers had recorded a consensual sexual encounter with the young girl before sending the video to the other players without her consent. Asencio has established himself as a first-team regular in his breakthrough season at Madrid. In a statement, he said that documents from a Gran Canaria court indicated his possible involvement was limited 'to the possible momentary viewing of some images by a third party, without attributing any involvement to me in the recording or dissemination'. Fans at various stadiums around Spain have jeered Asencio, with some Barcelona fans chanting 'Asencio, to jail' during the Clasico. Real Madrid's Copa del Rey semi-final win at Real Sociedad in February was briefly paused by the referee after home fans chanted 'Asencio die'. According to the court ruling, both women show symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder, Spanish sports outlet AS reported. The judge at the Gran Canaria High Court said there was enough evidence to support allegations of violation of privacy, distribution of videos to third parties without the victims' knowledge or consent, solicitation of a minor for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography. Article 197 of Spain's Criminal Code states that any individual convicted of recording and sharing an explicit video of a minor will face between three-and-a-half and five years in prison. This would drop to a two-and-a-half to four-year prison sentence if found guilty of non-consensual recording. If Asencio is culpable of only sharing the video the sentence would be expected to be less severe. The authorities confirmed charges were filed by the mother of the 16-year-old girl over the alleged non-consensual filming of her daughter. The complainant has stated that the sexual activity was consensual, but the recording of it was not. Following his arrest in 2023, Asencio tried to have his part in the case dismissed in February by appealing to end the investigation into his alleged role, however the judge decided to uphold the decision to move ahead with the inquiry. Asencio has had his breakthrough campaign at Real this season and spoke about the allegations after being called up to the Spain national team for the first time. Last month he told RTVE: 'I think everyone is aware of what they are doing. For that reason, I am very calm. 'So, well, live day by day. In the end, it's a matter of deadlines. I have noticed this change of pressure on the pitches. 'It's logical, with the change of category (after Spain call-up). I'm a person who likes and is motivated by feeling that pressure. Since I was a kid, I'm used to feeling that pressure at Real Madrid. It makes me even more motivated.' He has played 22 games for Carlo Ancelotti's side this season in a disappointing campaign for Los Blancos that looks set to finish without silverware. In February, Asencio went public on his relationship with Spanish influencer Selenia Suarez, who regularly attends the Bernabeu to watch him and is unrelated to the criminal case.
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Meet the Virginia Giuffre of the 1950s who was involved in a sex scandal that foreshadowed Epstein's sinister ring
Jerry Oppenheimer is a bestselling biographer whose subjects include dynasties such as the Kennedys, Hiltons, Kardashians, and icons like Martha Stewart and Anna Wintour. Long before underage Virginia Giuffre – who served as a 'sex slave' to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends there was glamorous teen Pat Ward. Like Giuffre, who tragically took her own life late last month at the age of 41, Ward was another teenage party girl. She attempted suicide three times after being coerced at 19 to be a high-priced call-girl to help financially support the playboy lifestyle of her do-nothing socialite boyfriend in a scandal that would rock New York City 's louche Café Society in the early 1950s, and make headlines around the world. Ward's boyfriend-turned procurer of beautiful young girls for the wealthy and famous from the Big Apple to Hollywood was Minot Jelke, known to one and all as Mickey. In his early twenties, he was a pudgy five-foot, five-inch heir to a margarine fortune, whose life revolved around drinking and womanizing through the night – every night – at such ritzy Manhattan haunts as El Morocco, the Stork Club and the 21 Club, where he was sure to find pretty young girls trawling for sugar daddies that he could cash-in on. In many sordid and tragic ways, the long lost to history Jelke sex scandal closely foreshadowed the vile sexual proclivities of Epstein, and his female recruits like Virginia Giuffre some seven decades later. Born Virginia Roberts in Sacramento, California, Giuffre came from a troubled home, had been molested by a close family friend beginning at age seven, and later became a teenage runaway, living on the streets. The dirty blonde, dark-eyed, and slender Lolita-type got a job in 2000, working as a teen locker-room assistant at Donald Trump 's Mar-a-Lago resort. It was there that she met Epstein's female sidekick and talent scout for young girls, the British socialite, Ghislaine Maxwell, and was offered the job as Epstein's personal massage therapist, with room and board and worldwide travel. She would claim she was then 'passed around like a platter of fruit' to the multimillionaire financier's friends, among them Prince Andrew with whom she famously alleged to have had sex three times. The younger brother of King Charles III, he consistently denied knowing her, let alone sleeping with her, but was pictured at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse with his arm around pretty Virginia's bare midriff, and with Maxwell gloatingly smiling in the background, in a now infamous photo. And to end a lawsuit, he settled with her to the tune of almost $4million. Meanwhile Epstein agreed to pay her $500,000 to drop her lawsuit against him. The married mother of three and advocate for sex trafficking survivors and sexual abuse victims died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia on April 25. As her family declared: 'She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and trafficking.' Seventy years earlier, Pat Ward also come from humble, impoverished roots. Born Sandra Wisotsky, she was brought up in New York's poverty-riddled Lower East Side – in a tenement on Avenue D – by her Polish-Jewish mother. The gorgeous teen appeared much older than her age – even drawing comparisons to Elizabeth Taylor. She dropped out of school and soon became a café society regular, and she and Jelke became an item. Ward's story was told in the 1995 Showtime movie, naturally called Café Society, in which Lara Flynn Boyle played her, Frank Whaley was Jelke, and Peter Gallagher starred as a fictional vice cop who goes undercover to probe the play-for-pay scandal. Jelke's grandfather, John Paris Jelke, founded the lucrative Wonder Margarine company that was later sold to Lever Brothers for a fortune. His remarried mother, Mrs. John Teal, of Park Avenue, was in the New York Social Register. Jelke was a spoiled scion living the high-life beginning at the age of 19 on borrowed family money while awaiting a $3million inheritance at age 25. He had a ritzy Manhattan apartment on East 48th Street, drove around town in a sky-blue Cadillac convertible, carried a revolver, and spent more money on booze, fancy dinners, and nightclubbing every night than the weekly take-home pay of the average American family was back in the early 1950s. It was a lifestyle that attracted hordes of pretty young girls like bees to honey, especially Pat Ward who moved in with him and wanted and was promised marriage. But Jelke kept putting a wedding off claiming he had to wait until he got his inheritance so they could live like millionaires. He saw a better way to generate income for himself: he coerced Ward to date and have sex with the rich and powerful men – from Manhattan to Hollywood – who partook in the café society party scene. Giuffre was hailed as a 'fierce warrior' for exposing the sex crimes of the rich and famous against underage girls Like teenage Virginia Giuffre who was under the spell of Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with prominent men in his social circle for his influence purposes and prestige, Pat Ward was doing the same for Mickey Jelke – but for money. She became part of a stable of young girls he had working for him, and with her model looks and 5'8' shapely body, Ward became quite an earner. According to an April 1955 report in Time magazine, which covered the café society scandal seemingly on a virtual weekly basis as did newspapers across the U.S., Europe and Australia: 'In five months, by her own reckoning, she made between $10,000 and $15,000 by renting herself, at $50 to $100 a date, to Mickey's well-heeled acquaintances,' Time reported. '[Twenty-five percent of her take was said to have gone to Jelke.] She could not remember exactly how many men she had accommodated, but there was always plenty of wolves at the door.' Jelke handled the money and arranged the dates, and even when he was out of town, he made sure she was doing her job, farming her out to a sometime madam, and telling her to 'keep Pat busy.' In his apartment authorities would find a bulging file of X-rated photos of girls, many in his stable, including Ward. The names of celebrities surfaced in connection with the scandal, among them screen stars like Mickey Rooney and George Raft, the sports writer Bill Stern, and others. Pat Ward appeared troubled when she arrived at court in New York to give evidence against her sugar daddy Mickey Jelke in 1953 Ward posed in her lawyer's office after the jury found Jelke guilty. He could have served up to 40 years in prison but was given a much more lenient sentence Most denied ever knowing her, with Rooney, stating: 'I met her five years ago at a party. What's wrong with that?' One Manhattanite was quoted as saying he knew her and told a reporter: 'As far as I know, nothing has been invented to replace sex for an unmarried man.' As with the suicidal Virginia Giuffre, Pat Ward's forced sexual lifestyle also came at an emotional cost. On three separate occasions, she unsuccessfully attempted to take her life, once with an overdose of sleeping pills in the Manhattan apartment of the comic actress Martha Raye for whom she was said to have briefly worked as an assistant after Jelke dumped her and Pat at the time was described as 'desperate and destitute.' She left a note that she wanted to end her life because of 'frustrated love.' Like Jeffrey Epstein who hanged himself in August 2019 in his jail cell at New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, Mickey Jelke also served time, 21 months of a two-to- three-year sentence, convicted of procuring and gun charges, with Pat Ward as the prosecution's key witness against him. The charges alleged that he lured Ward into a life of vice, set her up 'in a house of ill repute and sent customers to her.' He had previously served eight months at Rikers Island for illegal possession of two pistols. He married a slinky blonde who was with him in the nude in his apartment bedroom on the night he was first arrested. Jelke, 60, died in North Miami in May 1990. Unlike Virginia Giuffre, Pat Ward never threatened a lawsuit, or cashed in big-time from her abuse. She did, however, keep a little red book with the names of men, some of whom had been customers. She made some money selling her story to the New York Journal American newspaper, and scandal rags like Confidential and True Confessions. At one point she had a quickie marriage and divorce with a wealthy Miami osteopath, and then seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, and is presumed dead.
