Woman says Princess cruise art auction employee raped her on-board and gave her HIV
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A woman is suing Princess Cruise ships alleging that an onboard art auction employee transmitted HIV to her and that he “raped her in a closet while drunk”
- Jane Doe, 28, is suing the cruise line and art auctioneers Park West Gallery
- She says that an employee named Aleksandr raped her on a boat in January 2022.
- Doe says that she was drunk when he led her down a flight of stairs to a closet.
- Days later, he tested positive for HIV, according to a complaint
A woman sued Princess Cruise ships alleging that an onboard art auction employee transmitted HIV to her, and that she says he raped her in a closet on one of the ships while she was drunk.
The woman filed her lawsuit anonymously yesterday over the incident, which she says occurred in January 2022.
According to the complaint, the employee, named Aleksandr, did not work for Princess Cruises but for the Park West art gallery company. Park West offers art auctions aboard the Princess cruise ships.
The woman, who was 27 at the time, says she had been drinking all day when Aleksandr noticed her and lured her into the auction.
A Princess Cruises ship docked in Australia in 2020. A woman is suing the cruise company now, alleging she was raped on board in January 2022.
She says that he asked her name and room number, and she gave it to him. She returned to her room and received a phone call from him, inviting her to return to the gallery.
Once she returned, she said he filled her with more alcohol and then took her down a flight of stairs, where she says he then pushed her into a closet and raped her.
The lawsuit describes how she was too intoxicated to physically push him, but repeatedly told him that she did not want to have sex.
After the incident, he began to experience ‘abnormal symptoms’, so he visited a doctor, where he later tested positive for HIV.
Park West Gallery is the art auction company that holds auctions on board ships. The woman says that her attacker worked for them and that she attacked her after she had been drinking all day. Above, the type of auction that is expected on board the boats
An art auction on board in one of the galleries that operate on the ships.
“I was 27 at the time of the cruise, basically just out of school. She’s in the medical field, and she was really starting her life.
“For her, having this horrible incident in and of itself was terrible, but then having the added element of HIV is anyone’s worst nightmare,” said her attorney Michael Winkleman. the daily beastthat he obtained a copy of the complaint.
The woman is suing Princess Cruises and Park West Gallery, the company that operates the gallery.
Winkleman told Beast that he was seeking “maximum compensation” from the two companies.