A Portland massage therapist gave local police a detailed statement last year alleging that former Vice President Al Gore groped her, kissed her and made unwanted sexual advances during a late-night massage session in October 2006 in a suite at the upscale Hotel Lucia.
“The case was not investigated any further because detectives concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations,” the Portland Police Bureau said in a prepared statement Wednesday, responding to inquiries from all over the world after the National Enquirer broke the story on its website.
In her detailed Jan. 8, 2009, statement to a Portland sexual assault investigator, the woman said she was called to the hotel about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 2006, to provide a massage for Gore, who was registered under the name “Mr. Stone.” Once inside his ninth-floor suite, she said he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, tongue-kissed her and threw her down on the bed as she tried to thwart his advances.
She called him a “crazed sex poodle” and tried to distract him, pointing out a box of Moonstruck chocolates on a nearby table. He went for the chocolates and then offered her some, cornering her, fondling her and shoving his tongue in her mouth to french kiss as he pressed against her.
She said he tried to pull her camisole strap down.
She said she told him to stop it. “I was distressed, shocked and terrified.”
She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him “rotund,” described his “violent temper, dictatorial, commanding attitude” — what she termed a contrast from his “Mr. Smiley global-warming concern persona.”
Later, she said, he tried to lure her into the bedroom to hear pop star Pink’s “Dear Mr. President” on his iPod dock. She said Gore sat on one end of the bed and motioned for her to join him.
Suddenly, she said, he “flipped me on my back, threw his whole body face down over a top me, pinning me down.”
She said she loudly protested, “Get off me, you big lummox!”
The therapist said she injured her left leg and knee and sought medical care for several months.
Who the heck uses the word “lummox” in conversation?
Certainly not massage therapists.
Licentious lummox.
Hey, Mr. Right…. BITE ME.
What a shocker that the police have AGAIN said this was a baseless charge. Glad I was sitting down when I read that!
It is amazing the difference between “journalism” (www-dot-salon-dot-com/news/feature/2010/06/24/gore_sex_assault_portland_tribune) and “sensationalism” (www-dot-dvorak-dot-org/blog/2010/06/24/is-al-gore-a-sexual-molester/).
I’m sorry about beating this dead horse, folks, but I’ve come to respect this site enough that this baloney is troubling. Yeah – this site does have stories on marrying cows and magic earthquake machines (there’s always a bit of tongue-in-cheek in those), but it also has stories on finance, government, and the police… Seeing something like this written about seriously does more harm than good.