Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens treated a woman as if she were a “wounded little animal on the ground” and was “coaxing” her during a sexual encounter in March 2015 during his extramarital affair, the woman said to St. Louis prosecutors.
The supplemental report from the Missouri House of Representatives released Monday by the Special Investigative Committee on Oversight seeks to refute Greitens’ claim that a video interview from the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office “undermined the narrative” of and contradicted the allegations contained in a report from the committee released last month.
That report, released April 11, detailed claims from the woman that she and Greitens had several sexual encounters, some of which were consensual and others that were not. The woman said the governor slapped her, coerced her into performing oral sex, called her derogatory names, and threatened to blackmail her.
The woman said when she went to see Greitens at his home on that March day more than three years ago, he led her to the basement and told her he was going to show her how to do a “proper pull-up.”
Greitens then allegedly bound her hands to pull-up rings, blindfolded her, and took some of her clothes off. The woman said the governor then took photos of her without her consent and warned that if she spoke of him, he would share the photos.
The woman told the House committee Greitens wrapped her in a “bear hug” and laid her on the ground before forcing her to perform oral sex on him.
Greitens denied the allegations contained in the House report and said an undisclosed video interview the woman conducted with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office “undermined the narrative pushed in the House report.”
He also said accusations of “coercion, violence and assault” were incorrect.
But the additional report released April 30 shows the woman’s testimony before the circuit attorney’s office and the investigative committee match up.
The woman told St. Louis prosecutors Greitens laid her down on the “basement floor in the fetal position,” before proceeding “to undo his pants and take his [penis] out of his underwear” and put it near her face.
She went on to tell prosecutors she performed oral sex on him and felt if she did “he’ll be satisfied that he had his little whore” and could then leave.
The woman said he was “really coaxing me like a wounded little animal on the ground.”
The supplemental report released by the House investigative committee also said the woman’s testimony to the committee corroborates what she told St. Louis prosecutors about one instance in June 2015 when Greitens allegedly slapped her.
A spokeswoman for Greitens’ legal team said in a statement the additional report from the committee contains “more false information that has not been subject to cross-examination.”
“As the governor has said before, the allegations made against him are false. Any allegation of sexual violence, coercion, or assault are completely and totally untrue,” Maria Jeffrey said. “He is innocent, and it has become obvious to almost everyone watching this case that the allegations made against him are now collapsing under the weight of payoffs, lies and perjury.”
The Missouri governor is currently facing two felony charges. In February, a St. Louis grand jury indicted Greitens on one felony count of invasion of privacy stemming from the March 2015 encounter. The indictment claims he “knowingly photographed” a woman without her knowledge and consent and transmitted the image.
Then last month, St. Louis prosecutors charged Greitens with felony computer tampering of computer data for allegedly obtaining and using a donor list from The Mission Continues, which he founded in 2007, without the organization’s permission.
