Rolling Stone revealed new details of the recent leak of private messages and videos of former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson‘s interactions with a woman who is not his wife.
In an obtained report from the Scottsdale Police Department which shows that Ellefson admitted to police that he had been sexting with a Dutch teenager who had captured video of their encounters without his consent, police confirmed Ellefson‘s partner’s age as 19. Ellefson aslo also took a polygraph test and provided a photo of his partner’s driver’s license to prove she was of age. He also shared with the with police screenshots of Snapchat and WhatsApp messages of his interactions with her.
Ellefson told police 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,” as said in a report. “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.”
His interactions with the woman didn’t turn sexual until “July or August” of 2020, when they each started to masturb*te together over Facebook Messenger,” 56-year-old musician claims. “He stated they had about four to five masturb*ting 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 masturb*ting without his consent or knowledge.”
“[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.”
Last month, MEGADETH fired Ellefson after accusations releasing a following statement:
“We are informing our fans that David Ellefson is no longer playing with MEGADETH and that we are officially parting ways with him. We do not take this decision lightly,” the band wrote in a statement.
“While we do not know every detail of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is enough to make working together impossible moving forward.”
MEGADETH is in a bit of hurry to find a new bassist since their ““The Metal Tour Of The Year” with LAMB OF GOD is scheduled to kick off on Friday, August 20 in Austin, Texas and hit a further 26 cities before wrapping in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on Saturday, October 2. Joining them will be special guests TRIVIUM and IN FLAMES, heralding the long-awaited return to the stage for these bands, who are every bit as excited about these historic and not-to-be-missed shows as fans are.
Tickets and dates for the tour are available at this location.
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