Attorney Michael Avenatti named today Washington resident Julie Swetnick as his client who has made shocking and troubling allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Here is a picture of my client Julie Swetnick. She is courageous, brave and honest. We ask that her privacy and that of her family be respected. pic.twitter.com/auuSeHm5s0
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 26, 2018
He included his correspondence with the staff of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley over her allegations about Kavanaugh (see below).
Swetnick, in an affidavit posted online by Avenatti, claims that Kavanaugh, as a high school student in Maryland in the early 1980s, with others spiked the drinks of girls at house parties with grain alcohol and/or drugs to “cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say ‘No.’ ”
Swetnick, 55, said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls “could then be ‘gang raped’ in a side room or bedroom by a ‘train’ of numerous boys.”
“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” Swetnick said.
She said she attended “well over ten house parties” from 1981-1983. Between 1981-1982, she said at these parties she began to notice Judge, Kavanaugh and others would attempt to “‘spike’ the ‘punch’ at house parties I attended with drugs and/or grain alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions and their ability to say ‘No.’”
Kavanaugh and Judge, she said, would “‘target’ particular girls … it was usually a girl that was especially vulnerable because she was alone at the party or shy.” She said she has a “firm recollection” of seeing boys ― including Judge and Kavanaugh ― “lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.”
She also said in her affidavit sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee that in approximately 1982 “I became the victim of one of these ‘gang’ or ‘train’ rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present.”
Avenatti strongly disputed an online rumor that he had been duped by a woman, but waited until today to produce Swetnick.
“That was completely false,” Avenatti said on Twitter. “It never happened; it is a total fabrication. None of it is true. The right must be very worried. They should be.”
The revelation of Avenatti’s client comes as Kavanaugh faces sexual assault allegations from two other women, Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh and Ford are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
