Waris Dirie, the former supermodel and James Bond girl turned United Nations women's rights ambassador, has claimed she was abducted and assaulted during a three day period she went missing in Brussels last week.Miss Dirie was admitted to hospital, in her hometown of Vienna, with an arm injury and abrasions to her legs. Gerald Ganzger, her lawyer, alleged the injuries had been inflicted by a Belgian taxi driver who abducted and attempted to rape her while holding her hostage in his flat for two days.
Miss Dirie, a 43-year-old naturalised Austrian, went missing in the early hours of last Wednesday morning just hours before she was due to speak alongside Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, at a top level European Union conference on women's rights.
Her disappearance sparked a national manhunt. Following her initial reappearance on Friday afternoon, Miss Dirie apologised for a "misunderstanding" and said she was "lost".
Walter Lutschinger, her manager, has tried to explain why Miss Dirie did not tell police of the attack. "I think that she was simply in extreme shock," he said.
Jos Colpin, the Brussels prosecutor, expressed police bafflement. "It was made clear by her that she was the victim of nothing. Naturally we will open a new dossier if a new charge is made."
The mystery over Mis Dirie's missing days also deepened after a 45-year old Belgian man, known only as William D, came forward to say that he picked up Miss Dirie in a bar.
The window cleaner first spotted the former model on Thursday in a scruffy Brussels bar, Chez Henri, before approaching her over a glass of red wine the next day. After inviting her back to his home to eat, William D. and Miss Dirie were stopped by police officers, who had recognised her.
"If only I had taken another way home or a taxi, I could have had a good time with a splendid woman," he told La Dernière La Dernière Heure newspaper.
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5 comments:
Wow. This is odd and scary. I think I remember that she had a stalker a few years back so my mind instantly went to that.
Belgian beer is heavy stuff
She has already told 4 completely different versions of this story.
Hospitalized for scratches ?
she looked fine at her press conference.
Chez Henry is a classy restaurant, not a scruffy bar.
it's 50 meters from my house, too bad i didn't see her (or maybe that's good, she might have accused me of rape as well)
the rapist drove her back to the center of the town ?
not likely !
poor woman.
am i imagining things? wasn't/isn't she married? i remember reading something about her, and she was talking about some guy, and what sex is like with FGM... and i swore she was pregnant in the accompanying photoshoot. am i delusional?
I'm so confused by this story. I have followed Waris Dirie's career and crusade against FGM but I'm wondering what has happened to her lately.
I know that she had took up with an American musician some years back, and they had a son.
I hope she's okay.
HonorHoney
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