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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Matt Hughes

Football agent Jonathan Barnett accused of trafficking, torture and rape

Jonathan Barnett, pictured in 2015.
Jonathan Barnett, whose clients included Gareth Bale and Jack Grealish, pictured in 2015. He retired last year. Photograph: Laurent Loiseau/Demotix/The Guardian

The leading football agent Jonathan Barnett is being sued in an American court over allegations of human trafficking, torture and rape.

In a civil complaint filed in a California district court it is alleged that Barnett “trafficked” the woman from Australia to the UK in 2017, “tortured” her for six years by keeping her as a “sex slave” and sexually assaulted her, including by rape, more than 39 times, as well as making “repeated threats to her life and the lives of her minor children”.

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