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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Will Castle

Football super-agent Jonathan Barnett accused of keeping woman as ‘sex slave’

Jonathan Barnett, a leading British sports agent who represented Gareth Bale and Jack Grealish, is being sued in American district court over accusations of human trafficking, rape and torture.

An unnamed woman filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that Barnett coerced the woman from Australia to the UK in 2017 and kept her as a “sex slave” for six years, raping her over 39 times.

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