Duffy

[Whatliesbeneath]

Im very surprised the media never covered this. She was such a talented singer, i always wondered where she went, bless her i hope she is in better place

 

[Lolly505]

I read her statement fairly quickly but I got the impression that she had informed the police a few times? She said at one point the name of the perpetrator will stay between her and the police? Unless I'm really misreading here does that mean it has been investigated?

I think she mentioned that she spoke of it twice to police officers but I don't think it was in an official capacity/on the record statement (but I might be misremembering).

EDIT: Just had another look and she said she mentioned it when reporting other incidents (blackmail and a break in) but it doesn't seem to have been its own case.
Others may disagree but I can understand why not, since sexual assault cases are notoriously difficult to convict (especially after time has passed) and trials, etc, can be traumatic experiences in themselves. Even reporting is no guarantee that something will be done, unfortunately.

 

[Justhereforthedrama]

This happened in 2011 right? And she’s recently broken up with that rugby player?

I remember something feeling so off at the time. To be clear, I absolutely believe her but this story is tangled.
That wales online article referenced a few pages back is absolutely a hit piece. Someone paid or pushed to get that printed and that someone was on the team of whoever did those things to her. The piece presents itself as a ‘whatever happened to Duffy?’ But the objectives of the piece are to make Duffy look like an emotionally unstable and untrustworthy woman who has substance abuse issues and was not coping with fame. I actually had chills reading it and wouldn’t be surprised if it came out around the time of the sexual assaults and kidnapping.

Ive just re-read that article through the lens of it being a hit piece - it stinks!

So I feel like something has happened and all the men involved have formed a circle around themselves to protect themselves? So weird

 

[Sophie Ruth]

It's an odd story but with loads of detail obviously missing I imagine Duffy is only telling what she's comfortable to share and that's okay. Maybe, in time, she'll feel safer to fill in the gaps but I just hope she's doing alright and has a good support system looking out for her.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Chloe Alyling. I think with her specifically it was just weird how she tried so hard to become famous off the back of being a kidnap victim and that's why so many didn't and still don't believe her, although recently she disclosed an autism diagnosis so that makes much more sense of things imho.

That’s her. She absolutely didn‘t “behave like a victim” but she got the wrong end of the stick, she wanted to be famous or be an influencer so she was posing and preening when she was invited on telly, as she said the kidnapping was in the past by then. The autism makes sense there as well.

just seems like 3 women who all didn't tell their story the way people expect and then they were on trial. Seems to me that trauma makes them act quite similarly and it’s not at all suspicious. I suppose it depends what you know of trauma.

 

[LoisLane]

The whole thing does sound implausible. Is it possible the person who did it to her had a private jet? It’s just a bizarre story, but if true I am glad to hear she recovered.

 

[Ivegone]

this is horirible and sm has made us all sketical but why is she going on tv evereywhere reliving it if it was so bad and traumatic almost feels attention seekingg

 

[Miss Havisham]

I somehow just learned the story about Duffy’s abduction and rape. Now I’m completely intrigued. So she went out for dinner for her birthday, was drugged, flown abroad and kept in a hotel where she was raped for several weeks. I have so many questions….
Unless she went out for dinner with her actual passport, the abductor had access to her passport, how did she get out the country? If say it was a private jet do you need a passport?
Where did her family, friends or management team think she was for weeks on end? Did nobody report her missing?

I agree with you totally.

I am not suggesting that nothing has happened, but I cannot see how it happened in the way described - at least in that original description that was posted in 2020.
I’m not sure if any other information has been disclosed since then, as I am out of the loop.
The original details I read a while back, do not add up.

 

[BettyCrocker]

Easy as anything to drive to France maybe say someone was asleep? And who's to say she didn't know them and they knew where her passport was. Nothing there that seems unbelievable to me.
It's odd to me how people need to pick it apart? Is it the fear that things like that happen?! Because they do. Maybe we should start from a place of believing survivors before we rip them to shreds.

She states that it was somewhere they flew.

It obviously was someone she knew. He was a guest at her birthday party. Maybe he did have access to her passport, but she still had to go to an airport, go through airport security and board a flight. Sit for the duration of the flight. Disembark. Walk through the airport. Etc - not exactly easy to do with someone who’s heavily drugged I’d imagine.

It’s not unreasonable to question things that don’t make sense.

I’m well aware that horrific things happen in the world, I’m simply trying to make sense of what she’s claiming to have happened, based on the information she’s made public and it’s patchy at best.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Meh, if she wants to relaunch she has to address it, so it’s in the hands of PR people now. It’s her story to tell, she decides.

 

[bubbletea123]

This sounds like a telenovela... not that believable? How could she get on a flight drugged...I am sure the airport security and staff would notice. feel like she is using it for promo/a comeback, I know that sounds bad.

Does she say it was a birthday party? I got the impression it seemed like a date. Why didn’t she report this to the police? I know she’s told them after, but no official report?

I thought that too. Does she have an idea of who did it? If so, then she is knowingly not reporting it and they are roaming about and could do it someone else...

 

[Instamoron]

Wow! what a brave lady to come out and share this

Absolutely! I’m so shocked, and I obviously don’t know her but reading it made me want to just give her a hug. What a nightmare it must have been for her.

 

[Greencatfysh]

I agree with you totally.

I am not suggesting that nothing has happened, but I cannot see how it happened in the way described - at least in that original description that was posted in 2020.
I’m not sure if any other information has been disclosed since then, as I am out of the loop.
The original details I read a while back, do not add up.

I think it’s insinuated that it was her partner or someone she was close with doing the abducting? But I agree it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

 

[Tangerine Dream]

I always thought that her original explanation sounded so odd because she was traumatised and for whatever reason didn't want to give very full details. Which is fair enough.
I feel like there might have been a rumour about it being a manager or record company type?
To be fair the way she told her story puts me in mind of Michaela Coel who was drugged and grasped, and that young girl who was a model who was lured abroad and drugged for weeks by the fake photographer.

Chloe Alyling. I think with her specifically it was just weird how she tried so hard to become famous off the back of being a kidnap victim and that's why so many didn't and still don't believe her, although recently she disclosed an autism diagnosis so that makes much more sense of things imho.

 

[Tangerine Dream]

She's been the main story of the Mail today. Has a documentary coming on Disney+ and is starting to do live performances again (understandably to just small audiences for now).

Is it me or is there an undercurrent of skepticism in the way the kidnap/rape is written about? Not that I give it importance, gutter press are gonna gutter press but it's a vibe I feel is there.

Maybe the documentary will make Duffy's story clearer. I just wish her well.

 

[Twirlywoo]

I wonder if it was someone she knew who did it, this happened to a friend of mine by her boyfriend at the time

 

[Blackbird]

Yes I agree, must have been a friend too if she was celebrating her birthday with him

Or a hanger-on in some capacity (assistant / music company rep, etc.)

 

[TeaPotTattoo]

I don't like the paper's own mash-up of her life, but the statement she wrote herself is very moving.

 

[Dotty Merton]

Ive just re-read that article through the lens of it being a hit piece - it stinks!

So I feel like something has happened and all the men involved have formed a circle around themselves to protect themselves? So weird

Its getting really murky isnt it, who is this guy in Dubai I've seen mention of? Is she safe to speak out now? In light of recent stories of rich men trafficking girls on planes it's now clearly not out of reach for this to be true as was questioned when she first came out with what had happened to her. In fact its a real illustration of how hard it is for people to speak out, I wonder if anyone connected to the man in dubai posted here originally and suggested it was a made up story to add fuel to fire, hmmmm

This was on AGC blinds yeaaaars ago! Horrific story. Always wondered whether it would come out.

Anyone got a link for this?

 

[vikka]

Wondered many times what happened to her!!
Horrifying.