Explosive new documents reveal details of charges against Alan Jones

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Former broadcaster Alan Jones is alleged to have fondled penises, stroked thighs, squeezed bottoms and pulled one man’s scrotum, according to explosive court documents obtained by this masthead.

The charge sheets reveal details of the 26 allegations against Jones relating to nine complainants.

Alan Jones after being granted bail on November 18.Credit: Wolter Peeters

The alleged offending took place between June 2001 and December 2019 and allegedly occurred at Jones’ former home in Newtown, his harbourside apartment, his farm at Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands and other places across Sydney.

Jones, who also coached the Wallabies, was arrested at his luxury Circular Quay home at 7.45am on November 18 and released on conditional bail that afternoon.

The 83-year-old is charged with 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, 11 counts of assault with act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and two counts of common assault. The identities of his alleged victims have been suppressed. The nine complainants are understood not to know each other.

In the documents, filed to the court and obtained by this masthead on Tuesday, police claim the indecent acts included kissing on the lips, the corner of the mouth and “using his tongue”.

Regarding three of the men, Jones is alleged to have touched, “fondled” or “rubbed” their penis. On one occasion, police allege Jones “touched [the complainant’s] penis, pulling his scrotum”.

He is further accused of squeezing knees and bottoms, touching faces and legs, touching or stroking thighs – at one point “close to his [the complainant’s] groin” – kissed another complainant and “caressed his upper arm”.

The charges follow a major investigation by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age which revealed allegations that Jones used his position of power to prey on a number of young men, indecently assaulting them, groping or inappropriately touching them without their consent.

The 11 aggravated indecent assault charges involve a former 2GB employee known as Complainant C, who used to drive the star broadcaster from the radio station’s Pyrmont studios to his luxury apartment in the building known as The Toaster, which overlooks Circular Quay.

“During those 10 minutes, it would be wandering hands and then it just gradually became him grabbing my dick. And he would go for it,” the employee previously told this masthead.

“He knew I wasn’t gay, so it was about power dynamics. I would be driving and he would have put his hand on my leg, and then you’d sort of push his hand away, just try and wriggle out. But you’re driving, you’re absolutely trapped … he’d go the grope, he’d rub my penis.”

According to the charge sheets, the alleged offences against Jones’s former driver occurred in 2008 and 2009 and included touching and rubbing his penis as well as kissing him on the mouth and lips.

The element of “aggravation” in the 11 indecent assault charges involving the driver relate to his position as an employee of Jones, and being under his authority. This offence can attract a maximum penalty of seven years’ imprisonment.

A man referred to in the charge sheet as Complainant B, who was 26 at the time, had previously told this masthead that he was driving Jones to dinner in Leichhardt in 2001 when the broadcaster allegedly “put his hand in my lap” and “touched my penis through my pants”.

He said he removed Jones’ hand immediately.

The youngest of Jones’ alleged victims, Complainant A, was a 17-year-old schoolboy at the time Jones is alleged to have committed an act of indecency on him, by kissing him using his tongue. The boy, who was staying at Jones’ Fitzroy Falls property over a weekend in January 2017, has previously said he and Jones, who was 75 at the time, watched a movie before the broadcaster passionately kissed him on the lips and placed his left hand on the boy’s buttocks.

After pushing Jones away, the boy went to the bathroom “with my loofah and soap and began scrubbing my mouth, inside and out, as much as I could”.

When her son returned home, his mother was concerned that something was wrong. Finally, her son passed her a piece of paper on which he’d written his allegation that someone with “power and money” had done “something to him which he shouldn’t have”.

“Alan Jones was so aware of how vulnerable we were … and he just preyed on it,” his mother told this masthead last year.

The boy and his mother reported the incident to police, who told them Jones would hire a formidable legal team, and it would be the word of a schoolboy against one of the most powerful people in the country. Jones was not “Joe Blow from Bunnings”, the mother recalled an officer saying.

At the time, the police encouraged the boy to make a statement in case further allegations against Jones were received at a later date.

Jones denied the allegations raised by the Herald and The Age in December 2023 and threatened to sue but did not commence a defamation action.

‘Alan Jones was so aware of how vulnerable we were … and he just preyed on it.’

The mother of Complainant A

Jones was one of the most powerful figures in the Australian media. When he defected from 2UE to 2GB in 2002, it was the biggest media deal for an individual in Australia, worth an estimated $40 million over seven years.

In May 2020, Jones announced his retirement from 2GB on doctors’ advice. Behind the scenes, Jones was being forced out on commercial grounds because advertisers were boycotting his program after comments he made about then New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

In August 2019, Jones said that then Australian prime minister Scott Morrison should “shove a sock down her throat” and he hoped Morrison “gets tough here with a few backhanders”.

After Jones’ arrest, his high-profile lawyer Chris Murphy said his client “denies any misconduct” and would be “defending this case”.

Jones’ bail conditions include that he is of good behaviour, lives at a Sydney address, surrenders his passport and does not go near any international airport or “interstate airport departure points” in NSW.

He is not allowed to contact or stalk, harass or intimidate any complainant or witness in relation to the investigation, and cannot disclose the identity of any complainant to a third party, entity or media outlet other than a lawyer.

Jones is due to face Downing Centre Local Court on December 18.

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