((HT: Reno Gazette-Journal/Bellisle))
The woman who claimed in a lawsuit that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her and Harrah's Lake Tahoe management covered it up allegedly bragged about having consensual sex with him to a co-worker, according to court documents filed late Friday.
In a sworn statement attached to a motion to move the case to Douglas County, Angela Antonetti said that Andrea McNulty, the woman who made the rape claim, "did not appear to be upset, stressed-out or nervous" about having "been with Roethlisberger" during the 2008 American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament.
Instead, McNulty "appeared happy and boastful" about it, and later said she thought she might be pregnant from the encounter, the affidavit said.
"Rather than indicating that she was afraid or apprehensive about this, Andrea expressed to me that she was hoping for a 'little Roethlisberger'," said Antonetti, who worked with McNulty at Harrahs between 2006 and 2009.
Reached late Friday, McNultys lawyer, Cal Dunlap, said he had not seen the documents and declined to comment.
McNulty filed the lawsuit in Washoe District Court on July 17, claiming that she was working as a VIP hostess during the tournament when Roethlisberger asked her to come to his room to fix his television. She said he raped her and then told her to leave.
She said she reported it to Harrah's security chief Guy Hyder the next day, but nothing was done. Her lawsuit claims eight members of Harrah's management, including casino president John Koster, conspired to cover up the alleged attack.
Her lawsuit said that she went into a deep depression after the alleged attack, and spent months in and out of hospitals.
But the motion, filed by Roethlisberger's Nevada lawyer, John Echeverria, said that her claims were an attempt to exploit his celebrity status.
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