David Ellefson filed a police report with the Scottsdale Police Department in Arizona to investigate who was responsible for leaking explicit videos sent to a teenage fan. Following the scandal , the musician was fired from Megadeth .
The images were leaked online in early May, without revealing the identity of the young Dutch woman with whom the bassist was having an extramarital affair online. The person responsible for the leak accused Ellefson of pedophilia and corruption of minors , since the conversations with the teenager began when she was only 17 years old, in 2019.
According to Rolling Stone , the police report seeks a revenge porn lawsuit against the person who published the content, with no charges against the young woman. Among the evidence presented are screenshots of conversations and a polygraph test, also known as a lie detector test.
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In the document, Ellefson confirms that he began "a friendship" with the young woman backstage at a show in the Netherlands in 2019. They only met in person a second time in February 2020, but the musician denies any "physical sexual contact" on those occasions.
According to Ellefson, the conversations continued for months and only became sexual in July or August of 2020. “He stated that they had about four or five masturbation encounters,” the report states. “The last online sexual encounter was around February 2021. [The young woman] admitted to Mr. Ellefson that she had recorded two or three videos of him masturbating without his consent or knowledge.”
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According to the testimony, the bassist does not suspect the girl, who "showed remorse" for sending the videos to friends and cooperated by publishing a statement affirming consent during the relationship. The young woman is currently 19 years old.
The police report also states that Ellefson informed Megadeth about the video leak and was advised by the team to "do nothing and wait patiently," as the matter would likely be forgotten. "The band's management informed him that their legal team would investigate," it details.
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