Posted on 06/22/2005 1:15:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
Kennedy cousin William K. Smith, who has twice been cleared of rape charges, reportedly paid a six-figure out-of-court settlement to a third woman who claimed he’d sexually harassed her.
Laura Hamilton, who worked for Smith’s Chicago-based Center for International Rehabilitation from 1997 to 2003, filed a 40-page complaint against Smith that, had he not settled, would have landed in U.S. District Court.
Hamilton alleged that Smith – Sen. Ted Kennedy’s nephew - repeatedly touched her, kissed her and massaged her, and that when she was pregnant she had to barricade herself in a bedroom to escape his advances.
Her complaint – which appeared on thesmokinggun.com, a website operated by Court TV – charged that after her baby was born, she finally gave in and slept with Smith during a trip to Croatia in 2002 because she wanted to keep her job. She said the experience left her feeling "degraded and humiliated.”
Hamilton’s complaint states that when she was seven months pregnant, she attended a UNICEF conference in New York and the Center for International Rehabilitation – a group that aids landmine victims – arranged for her to stay in an empty apartment owned by Smith’s mother, Jean Kennedy Smith.
Smith came to the apartment, tried to kiss her, rubbed her belly and "stuck his tongue in her ear,” according to the complaint.
Hamilton claimed she fled and barricaded her door, and the next day Smith told her "it was all [he] could do not to come in [her room] last night.”
She also said Smith made frequent comments to her about how pregnant woman "glowed” and were "irresistible.”
In 1991, Smith was acquitted of raping a woman he picked up in a Palm Beach, Fla., bar after a night of drinking with his uncle Ted.
During the trial three women said they were ready to testify that Smith assaulted them in the 1980s, but their testimony was not allowed.
In January, Smith prevailed in a civil case brought by his former personal assistant Audra Soulias, who claimed he sexually assaulted her after a night of drinking in 1999.
In her complaint, Hamilton alleges that Smith "raped” Soulias at his Chicago townhouse.
"Sex suit" -- would that be made of latex, or saran wrap, or something like that?
I'll bet this unlucky woman is a real cutie.
"she finally gave in and slept with Smith during a trip to Croatia in 2002 because she wanted to keep her job.......he rubbed her belly and kissed in her ear..."
Can you imagine the mischief this goofy SOB is going to be in when he's his uncle's age...I mean how much longer do we have to hear about this jerk...or in fact that whole family...?
William Kennedy Smith paid off another woman; he'll kill one someday. He should be in jail.
If you havn't read this, you should.
http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm
I for one will applaud when the "guilty" verdict is finally read, and he is hauled off to prison where this perverted individual belongs.
He HAS shown gallant self-control.
Maybe he could hitch a ride with Teddy to the Chapaquidick house one weekend. That would solve the problem.
Yeah...what a perfect perv gentleman.
Ba-dump, bum. </rimshot>
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana!" -- Groucho
I'm at my office, but I have that site bookmarked at home. It is probably the most in-depth source there is for all of the Kennedy crimes.
re: Kennedy Chappaquidic:
What about the theory that Teddy was never in the car in the first place?
He never got wet, never showed any signs of being in the water.
Slimey Smith gets another free pass.
LOL! Could you wear it more then one time????
I have a question though. How did he, (Ted Kennedy) get out of the car? He was drunk, and the car goes into the water upside down. It's pitch black, water filling up and he has the presence of mind to roll down the window and swim out? Impossible. I've spoken to many rescue scuba divers, who have tried this as part of a drill, they say it is incredibably difficult.
If he had blacked out about the incident then no one would know what happened, but he returned to the party and spoke to his attorney and other close friend...According to the article he spilled the story to these two.
They returned to the car and attempted to get back inside it, but couldn't.
Second question, what happened to these two guys? Are they still on speaking terms with Kennedy?
nick
I couldn't wear it at all!
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