London: Former Australia cricketer Shane Warne has been accused of punching a porn star in the face at one of London’s top nightclubs, said media reports.
Valerie Fox, who once claimed to have had a booze-fuelled tryst with British politician Nigel Farage, claims that the former cricket star assaulted her at Loulou’s in Mayfair on Saturday. However some doubt has been cast over her version of events. Warne has not been arrested, nor have any charges been laid.
Fox, 30, tweeted a photo of a bruise on her face, accusing Warne: “Proud of yourself? Hitting a woman? Vile creature.” She then tweeted a police incident report card showing her complaint was assault. “And no, I’m not lying. Just because you’re famous doesn’t mean you can hit women and get away with it,” she said.
Scotland Yard said: “Detectives are investigating an allegation of assault alleged to have taken place in a nightclub on Hertford Street in Westminster in the early hours of Saturday. There have been no arrests and inquiries continue.”
Fox will rely on CCTV footage inside the club to substantiate the claims against the 48-year-old. Witnesses inside the club told The Sun that they saw Warne arguing with Fox before she fell to the floor holding her face. Warne is a regular at the club, and had been spotted there two days earlier.
Attempts to contact Warne and his management company on Sunday were unsuccessful.
Fox advertises herself as a $750-an-hour bisexual escort and if her claims are proven, Warne’s cricket commentating contract could be in doubt.
Warne has had a colourful love life, including once being caught in a newspaper sting being filmed with two models and an inflatable sex toy, being engaged to English actress Liz Hurley, and sex-texting models which led to the breakup of his marriage to Simone Callahan.
But Warne’s fans care to remember his exploits on the cricket pitch, such as leaving Englishmen Mike Getting befuddled in 1993 with the ball of the century.
Fox has been in the spotlight before, claiming in April that she had met Mr Farage, the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, on a flight and insisted they avoided joining the Mile High Club only for fear that they would be caught by airline stewards. Farage denied the claims and says he was set up.
