A woman has broken down in court as she denied suggestions by Kurtley Beale’s lawyer that she instigated an encounter with the Wallabies star and fabricated sexual assault allegations to get sympathy from her partner after an argument. The now 29-year-old claims Beale, 35, groped her on the buttock at Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel on December 17, 2022, forced her to perform oral sex inside the men’s bathrooms, and bent her over.
Kurtley Beale arrives at court on Wednesday with his barrister Margaret Cunneen, SC, (left) and solicitor Lauren MacDougall (right).Beale has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of sexual touching. The defence argues the sexual activity inside the cubicle was consensual. The woman has given evidence she had an argument with her fiance which left them “on bad terms” on the morning of the alleged sexual assault. She went out to a girls’ lunch, drank alcohol, and had two “small lines” of cocaine at her friend’s house, before meeting her fiance at the pub about 10.20p