TV executive accused of 'sadistic beatings' of young female presenter

A tv executive down a drawstring of household favourite shows is warring a concealed High Court conflict implicit claims helium violently bushed a young pistillate TV presenter and forced her into “extreme intersexual activities”.

The retired producer, who is present successful his 70s, is accused of dishing retired “sadistic beatings” to the pistillate for his “own intersexual pleasure” successful the 1990s, erstwhile helium was successful a elder relation and she was attempting to kick-start her career.

The woman, who was successful her mid-20s astatine the time, claims she had to prosecute with the intersexual enactment to unafraid presenting roles, and says she was “dropped from TV” erstwhile she yet refused.

The enforcement “strenuously denies” the allegations, the tribunal heard, and helium alleges it was the pistillate herself who instigated “light” sado-masochistic intersexual activity.

The pistillate was granted anonymity soon aft launching the High Court civilian assertion past October. On Monday, the TV enforcement palmy applied for his sanction to besides beryllium covered by reporting restrictions arsenic the ineligible conflict plays out.

His lawyer argued the allegations being made person already had a “serious idiosyncratic adverse impact” connected his health.

“Being candid astir it, I earnestly uncertainty whether determination is going to beryllium capable clip to repair that reputation”, helium said. “The harm is perchance irreparable, and highly significant.

“This is not conscionable astir embarrassing conduct. It’s implied criminal, successful the circumstances wherever determination has been nary constabulary probe oregon prosecution.”

Bringing the High Court claim, the pistillate applied for damages “as a effect of the sexual, carnal and affectional abuse to which (she) was subjected.”

She is accusing him of an “inappropriate intersexual relationship” successful which helium “forced her to prosecute successful utmost intersexual activities to unafraid presenting roles.

“Numerous incidents of convulsive intersexual maltreatment occurred betwixt 1992 and 1994.

“The intersexual encounters would impact beatings and were purely for the defendant's ain sadistic pleasure.”

She says she was near with bruising and swelling, and is present seeking damages for alleged carnal and intelligence injuries arsenic good arsenic fiscal losses.

The TV executive, who is present married, worked with prima names during his career, and was the brains down a drawstring of deed amusement shows which broadcast to millions of viewers connected primetime television.

The High Court was told helium “strenuously denies” the allegations against him and intends to combat the civilian assertion for damages.

He says intersexual interaction was consensual, alleges the pistillate was the instigator of “light sado-masochistic overtones”, and disputes her characterisation of the stalling of her career.

“She came crossed to him and others arsenic a precise confident, forthright, and mature idiosyncratic who knew what she liked and that was wherefore helium was attracted to her”, his lawyer wrote, successful effect to the archetypal claim.

“At nary clip did she ever archer him she felt uncomfortable oregon intimidated successful his presence, specified that some parties had adjacent power of their actions, not lone generally, but besides specifically during intersexual activity, with airy sado-masochistic overtones instigated by your client, experienced arsenic she was and with an involvement successful that area.”

He added that earlier being accused, the TV enforcement “has worked wrong the tv manufacture for implicit 50 years without 1 azygous ailment astir his intersexual behaviour ever being made.”

He is present retired and “completely astatine a loss, confused and upset, arsenic to wherefore (she) would privation to marque specified hurtful, fabricated allegations”.

Agreeing to the exertion for an anonymity order, Master Sullivan said the civilian assertion involves allegations which “go to the halfway of his backstage life”, and she accepted that quality of the allegations person already caused “distress” and the request to question aesculapian treatment.

“This is simply a lawsuit wherever determination has been nary constabulary probe and nary denotation of a imaginable of a prosecution”, she ruled.

“That is simply a applicable origin to measurement successful the balance.”

She said the lawsuit centres connected an “attack connected the defendant’s estimation of specified severity that it would inevitably origin superior idiosyncratic impact”.