Revisiting the Sexual-Misconduct Allegations Against Ansel Elgort

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https://www.thecut.com/2021/12/ansel-elgort-sexual-assault-allegations-what-to-know.html

In June 2020, a Twitter user accused Elgort of sexually assaulting her in 2014, when she was 17 and he was 20. She subsequently removed the post and left the platform, but not before sharing screenshots of DMs she and Elgort allegedly exchanged, along with a picture of the two together. She said the actor asked her to send nudes, and also asked her if she would have a threesome with him and one of her (underage) friends. When she and Elgort had sex, she wrote in her tweeted statement, “It was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn’t want to do it.” She also said that Elgort knew she was a virgin at the time, adding, “He made me think this is how sex was supposed to be … Years later I have PTSD, I have panic attacks I go to therapy. “

In response to the woman’s post, Elgort posted his own statement to Instagram. (It has since been removed, along with most of the previously bustling account’s content — the 17 shirtless pics included.) “Her description of events is simply not what happened,” he wrote. “I have never and would never assault anyone.” Elgort went on to acknowledge that he had a “brief, legal and entirely consensual relationship” with the Twitter user, who — even at 17 — met New York’s legal standard for consent. He did apologize for his “attitude” during the breakup, which, according to Elgort, was actually him “ghosting” the girl. “As I look back at my attitude, I am disgusted and deeply ashamed of the way I acted,” he said.

However, the initial allegation caught the attention of a few girls and women who said they’d experienced similar behavior from Elgort, as our colleagues at Vulture have thoroughly reported. One tweeted that he had also given her his personal Snapchat — itsansolo — to DM with him when she was 15. Then, another user said he told her (again via Snapchat DM) he’d never hooked up with a fan before, in part because he was in a long-term relationship. (The girlfriend: Violetta Komyshan, whom he started dating when they were both students at La Guardia High School.) That user said they went on two dates when she was 16, which Elgort knew to be the age of consent in Georgia, apparently where the alleged dates took place. Another person said Elgort sent her dick pics in 2014, when she was 14 and in eighth grade. All of this surfaced an older tweet from a user who asked Elgort (in French) if he remembered sending her the following when she was 15 and he was 21: “I want you to come to my hotel room when I’m in London next … I want to kiss you, you’re so pretty. But you can’t tell a soul otherwise I could be in sooooo much trouble.” That message came via DM, according to her screenshots; she also posted another, in which he appeared to ask her: “You wanna send me something sexy?”

Elgort scrubbed his account sometime after posting about the first allegation. As of December 2021, he is back to posting, but so far only about West Side Story.