Allegations of on-line intercourse with a 19-year-old Dutch feminine contributed to David Ellefson getting thrown out of the thrash steel band Megadeth. The founding bass participant’s Could 14 ousting stems from alleged footage of him masturbating – in symphony with the fan he met at a signing – in a video that landed on-line.
Ellefson has filed a grievance with the Scottsdale police division, the Arizona Republic reported this week, alleging illegal distribution of photographs. He acknowledged 4 or 5 “consensual digital intercourse encounter[s]” and claims within the grievance that there had been no real-world sexual experiences with the girl. Ellefson is pursuing fees towards the one that leaked the video on-line, not towards the girl.
The Instagram poster stays unknown, in keeping with the Republic, and it’s unclear how the video was obtained. However Ellefson’s legal professionals shall be submitting a defamation swimsuit towards that individual in one more high-profile revenge porn lawsuit.
In a press release to the newspaper, Ellefson stated, “Lately, a really non-public video was illegally posted on the web and false allegations had been made towards me.
“The actions within the video had been between two consenting adults and had been recorded with out my information. I’m working with Scottsdale Police Division of their investigation into fees relating to revenge pornography to be filed towards the one that posted this video.”
Whoever launched the raunchy footage additionally claimed that Ellefson was “grooming” a minor — a time period that now has specific energy within the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. However Ellefson denied the allegation, saying that each one interactions had been consensual and the girl was 19.
Ellefson, 56, who lives in Scottsdale, first grew to become conscious of the potential for this career-crippling launch on Could 9, when the declare “David Ellefson of Megadeth is a pedophile” appeared on Instagram.
A police report acknowledged that the band’s administration was made conscious of the allegation, advised Ellefson that the poster had harassed different members of Megadeth up to now and suggested him to “sit tight” as it could seemingly “blow over.”
But it surely didn’t. Two hours later, the video of Ellefson allegedly pleasuring himself went on-line and shortly turned viral.
As reported in Selection, Ellefson posted on his now-private Instagram account that the movies and pictures had been “launched with in poor health intention by a 3rd celebration who was not approved to have them or share them.”
He additionally included a screenshot of a press release purportedly from the girl within the movies wherein she allegedly claims that, in the course of the pair’s interactions, she “was all the time a consenting grownup… In the long run, it was all consensual and all on-line.”
However that was not sufficient to fulfill his bandmates. 4 days later, Ellefson was a solo act, with the band informing followers by way of Twitter that he was out. “Whereas we have no idea each element of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is sufficient to make working collectively unattainable shifting ahead,” they wrote.
Ellefson just isn’t the one celeb to have gotten into sizzling water over on-line encounters that appeared non-public and went public. As reported in The Put up, Kate Haralson was 19 when she met Matthew Perry on the elite courting website Raya. Once they began speaking on FaceTime, Haralson claimed to Web page Six that the middle-aged actor requested, “Am I as previous as your dad?”
Haralson, who posted a fast clip of their convo to TikTok, claimed to have advised the previous “Pals” star that he was a yr older than her father and described the change as “bizarre,” though the encounter didn’t develop into sexual.
Ben Affleck didn’t fare significantly better on Raya after a disbelieving girl, identified on-line as Nivine Jay, unmatched him. As reported by Web page Six, she didn’t imagine that he was the “Justice League” star, which led to the lower.
Attempting to woo again the brunette magnificence, Affleck despatched a video wherein he requested, “Nivine, why did you unmatch me? It’s me.”
In fact she posted the footage on TikTok, a lot to Affleck’s embarrassment.
But it surely’s powerful to match the results endured by Ellefson who stated that the raunchy footage reportedly confirmed “non-public, grownup interactions that had been taken out of context and manipulated to inflict most harm to my repute, my profession and household.”