Kevin Clash certainly hasn’t been having a good time. The man who for nearly 30 years has worked on Sesame Street and been the person behind Elmo, has been forced to give up his job after two claims were made that he’d had underage sex with teenagers, which they said was part of a pattern of Clash picking up young men on gay chatlines.
Now a third accuser has launched a suit against Clash, claiming they had sex when he was just 16, which was illegal in the state they were in. The unnamed John Doe, who has been granted anonymity by the court, is seeking unspecified damages. He claims that he met Clash on a gay chat line in 2000 when he was 16, then went to his New York apartment, where Clash gave him alcohol and the two ‘engaged in sexual contact including oral sex’, (although they did not have full sex at that point).
The relationship continued for the next couple of year’s until the John Doe was 18. It was only towards the end of their time together that the claimant realised who Clash really was, as he’d always used the name Craig.
The new claimant’s lawyer (who all represents one of the other accusers, Cecil Singleton), says the John Doe has written a book about his relationship with Clash, and even read excerpts from it at a press conference.
The NY Post quotes the lawyer as saying: In Chapter 11: “Tickled my heart,” the accuser said he and Clash stopped short of intercourse when he was just 16, but they still went far.
“When we first met I was 16 and there was no intercourse; however lots of heavy kissing and he showed me what it felt like to get on your knees and obey your man,” according to the unpublished text.
“Mr Tickler is what I will call him and the game we played was father and son.”
The aspiring author wrote that he vividly recalled spotting an Emmy at Clash’s Upper West Side apartment,“I noticed that he had an Emmy on his shelf that I thought could not be real, because I knew every black man who had an Emmy so I thought. I really just scoped his place out and acted very calm,” the accuser wrote.
“On our first night I did not lose my virginity; however I learned what it felt like to have a man kiss you and take your breath away.”
A representative for Clash says this new suit “has no merit.”
It’s certainly tough to work out the truth of what’s going on here, although a pattern is emerging. However it’s difficult to know if it’s a pattern of Clash actually engaging in underage sex or a pattern of bandwagon jumping by claimants looking for cash, especially after it was revealed a six-figure sum was agreed with the first claimant.
If you want to know more about the earlier claims, read our story here.
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