‘Freak off’: Escort’s Mark Latham claims
A sex worker who Mark Latham described as a “good rooter” has claimed he and his ex-girlfriend contacted her.
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A Queensland sex worker has said that MP and commentator Mark Latham and his then girlfriend contacted her and even met with her at a ritzy event at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse.
Carly Electric said she suspected she was contacted because the couple wanted to hire her for a threesome.
In a message sent by Mr Latham, to his now ex-girlfriend Nathalie May Williams, he said Ms Electric was “good rooter” and joked if she might want to be involved in a “freak off” – the now infamous term used by Sean “Diddy” Combs to describe threesomes where one person looks on.
“It was just implied … who comes to a sex worker and behaves this way?” Ms Electric said of the interactions.
Mr Latham dismissed the discussions of freak offs as “a prank joke.”
“Just as the Tele today ran cherry-picked messages between me and Nathalie Matthews, with no context, missing in-jokes and pranks, they are at it again,’’ he said.
“Often enough between consenting adults there are 10-20 messages leading up to a prank joke. Haha.”
Mr Latham, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the state’s upper house, is the subject of an apprehended violence order application by Ms Matthews.
Ms Matthews, 37, is seeking an order preventing Mr Latham from going within 100m of her, alleging an “ongoing, reasonable fear of harassment, intimidation, and potential harm”.
She has alleged he asked her to call him “master” and engaged in degrading sexual acts.
Mr Latham has strongly denied the claims and said they are “absolute rubbish” and “comical”.
Ms Electric, a sex worker, stand up comedian and part owner of a racehorse, said she was “contacted out of nowhere” by both Mr Latham and Ms Williams last year on social media.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that Ms Electric believed there was interest in her services as an escort, but that it soon became clear there was no interest in booking.
“A big part of what I do is see couples,” she said.
“I believe Mark already knew who I was and told Nathalie to message me.
“She just came out of nowhere and it’s like they were love bombing me”.
Ms Electric said Ms Matthews messaged her about their shared interest in horse racing. Mr Latham then made contact.
She said Ms Matthews said words to the effect of “We’re looking at your photos, we think that you are so stunning”.
“I was like: ‘Are you going to book me?’”
Despite messaging back and forth Ms Electric stressed that she was never hired and nothing intimate ever occurred with the pair.
Nonetheless, she did meet them at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse on April 5 last year at the Group 1 Doncaster Mile. Ms Electric’s horse Iowna Merc was competing.
She then went to dinner with the pair and several others with an image of the three snapped at the meal together.
“I thought it was quite weird that someone like him would interact with someone like me, he seemed quite excited,” she said of Mr Latham.
The Daily Telegraph also revealed this week that WhatsApp messages exchanged between Mr Latham and Ms Williams discussed inviting Ms Electric to Randwick.
“Multi skilled. Comedian. Race lover. Keen rooter. Exactly our sort of person!!” Mr Latham wrote to Ms Williams about Ms Electric.
“Maybe she wants a freak off,” he added.
The allegations have come to light following Ms Williams’ court filings targeting Mr Latham.
“Throughout our relationship, the defendant engaged in a sustained pattern of emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, and financial abuse, including defecating on me before sex and refusing to let me wash,’’ the application states.
“Forcing degrading sexual acts, pressuring me to engage in sexual acts with others, demanding I call him ‘master,’ telling me I was his property, and repeatedly telling me that my only value to him was for sex to demean and control me.”
News.com.au does not suggest the claims are true, only that they have been made in an application to the NSW Local Court in pursuit of an AVO.
Mr Latham said the claims were false.
“Nothing has been served on me nor has anyone contacted me.
“I haven’t had anything to do with her (Ms Matthews) since 27 May, so nearly seven weeks ago. I ended the ‘situationship’ that night for very good reason.
NSW police sources say officers who initially interviewed Ms Matthews did not believe there was sufficient evidence to proceed with charges or an apprehended violence order on the information they were given.
They remain open to taking a further more comprehensive statement.
It is understood police did not receive the extent of the information that has since been made public when they initially spoke to Ms Matthews.
They again spoke to her recently and will continue to seek a comprehensive statement.
Originally published as ‘Freak off’: Escort’s Mark Latham claims
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