Football agent Jonathan Barnett accused of trafficking, torture and rape | Football

Jonathan Barnett, the leading football agent, is sued in an American court for allegations of trafficking, torture and rape.

In a civilian complaint filed in a California Regional Court, Barnett allegedly “tortured” from Australia to England in England in 2017, “tortured” by keeping it as a “sex slave for six years, and rape was attacked for more than 39 times and the“ life and the life of their young children ..

Barnett’s former employer Hollywood Talent Group Creative Artists Agency faces the same complaint with the allegations that he used his employees and ambassadors to help Barnett to keep it as a “sex slave”.

Barnett and Caa reject all claims. “Claims [the] The complaint against me really has no basis and wrong, ”Barnett said in a statement through his lawyers.“ We will strongly defend this case through the appropriate legal process. I am looking forward to being completely right and cleaned. “

Barnett was a leading sports agency for more than forty years before retiring last year. 75 -year -old Gareth Bale in 2013, Tottenham’dan Real Madrid, known for the transfer of 85.3 million pounds, but also represents a number of other best players, including Jack Grealish and Ivan Toney.

In the complaint, an anonymous woman, called Jane Doe, claims that Barnett is “having” as a “sex slave” for six years and subjected to violent and abusive behaviors discussed by its employers.

“This is a situation about corporate abuse at the highest level,” the complaint says. “This case is about how one of the most powerful men in the world in the world holds a sex slave with the help of their employees, accountants, ambassadors and family members to maintain their money and power to protect the compelling control over it and to keep their life and their children in fear for their lives.”

The complaint says Caa should know or know that “holding a sex slave”. Caa said that he first learned the allegations in January 2024 and that Barnett left the company the following month. The company strongly rejects information about its complaints against it.

“The complaint was trying to connect these allegations to CAA’s business, Mrs. Doe was never a employee, consultant or contractor of CAA, ICM or Stellar, but there was no business connection with CAA, ICM or star,” he said.

In the complaint, Doe said that Barnett first met a friend through a friend through a friend when he sent a special message to LinkedIn in 2017 by saying “Nice Pic ‘in 2017, in the mid -1990s. While visiting the UK from his home in Australia, he claimed that they arranged the meeting soon and offered him to move him with his young children to London’s work and pay for his two children to pay accommodation and school fees.

After moving to London, Doe said that Barnett raped him at his first meeting at Central London and that he would “have” and kill him if he told him. The complaint continues to elaborate more alleged malicious behaviors, including Barnett’s punishment and tie it overnight without food or water.

The complaint also claims that CAA made important payments to Doe several times between 2017-2023 and helped Barnett to its employees. “Considering that Mrs. Doe is not a CAA star athlete or a sports agency, it should have raised many red flags to ask the defendants’ nature of these payments and the relationship between the company to help the company,” he says.

In 1992, Barnett founded the Star Group in 1992, together with his first customers, former West Indies Cricket Brian Lara, before selling the Hollywood Talent Agency to the ICM partners in 2020. In an agreement completed in 2022, ICM was swallowed by the larger rival CAA, which brought together two of the world’s largest agencies.

Barnett and Caa have 20 days to respond to the allegations by applying to the court.