LOS ANGELES — A massage therapist whose friend is suing Knicks star Derrick Rose, alleging he and two buddies raped her, was a bust on the stand Thursday when she contradicted her pal’s story during cross examination.
Jessica Kendra Groff said she was shocked her pal would have claimed she wanted ecstasy when the masseuse has never taken the party drug.
Would you be surprised if the accuser texted Rose, “U got e babe she wants some we just left the sex store?” Rose’s attorney Mark Baute asked Groff, in Los Angeles federal court.
“Yeah I would be very surprised,” she answered.
“That would just be a blatant lie on her part?” Baute pressed.
“Yes,” she said.
“Have you ever done ‘E?’ ” Baute asked, referring to ecstasy.
“No,” Groff replied.
The former catalog model also testified she never went to a “girl-on-girl” sex store with the accuser before they headed to Rose’s house for a party on Aug. 26, 2013.
Earlier that day, the accuser had texted Rose about the driver he was sending to bring the two women to his Beverly Hills home that night.
“Ima have him take us to the girls on girls store and grab the belt,” the accuser texted, referring to a $69.99 sex harness called Munkey Barz.
But Groff’s testimony did not entirely favor Rose and his two friends who are accused of gang raping the woman at her apartment just hours after she left the NBA player’s home.
Under direct examination by the accuser’s attorney, Waukeen McCoy, Groff said her friend was so drunk at Rose’s home that she grabbed hot stones from a fire pit, burning her hand. Groff also said she never saw the accuser having three-way sex with Rose and his friend Randall Hampton by the pool, as the two testified earlier this week.
Earlier Thursday, Rose codefendant Ryan Allen returned to the stand and said the accuser called him three times after she dropped Groff at home around midnight.
Allen testified the 30-year-old accuser invited them to her LA apartment.
“She said we could come if Derrick came,” Allen said.
He recounted what he and his friends say was consensual sex with the accuser at her place.
Rose allegedly took his condom with him. Asked why he didn’t do the same, Allen replied, “I highly doubt if anybody wants my condom. My and Derrick’s social status is [very] different. So I think the desire for his condom is a lot higher than my condom.”
He also said the woman was “never unconscious” and that “no one drugged [her].”