Rolling Stone has published new details about the leak of private messages and videos of former MEGADETH bass player David Ellefson’s interactions with a young female online.
Rolling Stone apparently received a report from the Scottsdale Police Department which shows that the bassist admitted to sexting with a Dutch teenager who had been recording video of their encounters without his knowledge or consent. The police would confirm that the female was 19 years of age, as Ellefson was said to have taken a polygraph test and provided a photo of his partner’s driver’s license to prove she was of age.
The former MEGADETH bassist told authorities that he first met the woman when he was signing autographs at a 2019 concert in Holland. “They struck up a friendship and continued chatting through social media,” the report says. “The second time they met in person was in the Netherlands at a hotel lobby to have coffee and a soda. He believes this was February 2020. He stated there was no physical contact and they just had a conversation. He stated there has never been any sexual physical contact between the two.”
According to Ellefson, his interactions with the woman didn’t turn sexual until “July or August” of 2020, when they each started to masturbate together over Facebook Messenger. “He stated they had about four to five masturbating encounters,” the report said. “The last online sexual encounter was around February 2021. [Ellefson’s partner] admitted to Mr. Ellefson that she had recorded two to three videos of him masturbating without his consent or knowledge.”
The report added: “[Ellefson’s partner] admitted that she had shared the video with some friends but wasn’t sure how it got leaked out to others. She was remorseful and agreed to send out a social media statement on her Instagram account that she had been a willing consenting adult during their mutual virtual sexual encounter.
“[Ellefson] stated [the fan] has not extorted him in any way, so he believes he is not the originator(s) of the social media posts making the allegations.”
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