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EAGLE, Colo. (AP) -- The woman who accused Kobe Bryant of rape told
investigators the NBA star ignored her entreaties to stop and said there was
no doubt he heard her ``because every time I said `No' he tightened his hold
around me,'' according to documents released Friday.
That is among the never-before-released details of the woman's interview
with Eagle County sheriff's investigators the day after the incident at a
Vail-area resort last summer. Some details were released months ago, before
the rape charge against Bryant was dismissed at the woman's request.
The woman, who was a front desk employee and had given Bryant a tour of the
Cordillera resort, said he put both his hands around her neck and after
bending her over a chair, removed one hand to pull down her underwear.
``At that point I was just kind of scared and I said `No' a few times,'' she
told the detectives at the sheriff's office about 12 hours after the
incident.
Investigator Doug Winters then asked how she knew that Bryant heard her.
``Because every time I said `No' he tightened his hold around me,'' she
replied.
She said she cried during the encounter, and was scared he would hurt her.
The woman also said she believed she led Bryant to believe she wanted him to
hug or kiss her -- she said she thought he was ``going to try and make a
move on me'' -- but she did not intend to have sex with him.
Included in the documents were statements from the first three people the
woman saw after her encounter with Bryant. Trina McKay, the resort's night
auditor, said she saw the woman as she was leaving to go home, and ``she did
not look or sound as if there had been any problem.''
But Bobby Pietrack, a bellman and high school friend of the woman, said she
appeared to be very upset.
``As we started to walk to the time clock (she) grabbed my arm and started
to cry and said that Kobe Bryant choked her,'' Pietrack wrote in a police
statement. ``After we clocked out, I asked her to tell me everything, and
that is when she told me that Kobe Bryant had forced sex with her.''
He added: ``She was very shaken and she was crying'' as the two walked to
their cars from the hotel.
Pietrack said he followed her home, a drive of about 20 minutes, told her to
tell her parents what happened and left. He said he called the next morning
and learned she had not yet told her parents.
The woman had called her former boyfriend, Matt Herr, who wrote in a
statement that she was ``very upset, claiming that Kobe Bryant had raped
her.''
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