Billionaire businessman Richard Branson says he has no memory of the incident
Billionaire businessman Richard Branson says he can’t recall an episode at his Caribbean home in 2010 that led a woman to accuse him of sexual assault. Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, was accused of putting his face in the breasts of an American singer who was working as a backup for a music group attending a party at Branson’s Necker Island, CNN Money reported. “He went ‘brrrrrr’ and just walked away. It was surreal, totally out of the blue,” Antonia Jenae told The Sun, the British tabloid. “His behavior was disgusting. I feel like it was sexual assault,” she said. “Everyone was wondering why I wasn’t angry because I’m usually a firebrand. But I was just too shocked.” “Richard has no recollection of this matter and neither do his family and friends, who were with him at the time. There would never have been any intention to offend or make anyone feel uncomfortable in any way and Richard apologizes if anyone felt that way during their time on the island”, said a spokesperson for Virgin. Jenae made the allegations in a Facebook post on October 16 that used the hashtag #metoo. “He kept trying to convince me to show him my boobs like this Indian statute (sic) he had at his pool on his island, I took it as a ‘joke’,” she wrote of Branson in the post. “As everyone was saying goodnight, he proceeded to ‘motorboard’ my breasts with his face,” she continued. “I was so shocked. I think everyone was, no one said or did anything.”
