A Sydney court has heard a British man accused of sexually assaulting a woman on Bondi Beach boasted that nothing would happen to him because he was wealthy.

Gregory Charles Cox was out with friends in January 2012 when he met a 21-year-old woman from Bermuda at the Bucket List bar at Bondi Beach.

The District Court has heard the woman was sexually assaulted by Cox after leaving the venue.

The jury was told the woman was crying and had pleaded with him to stop.

According to the woman, Cox told her "you can tell the police, you can tell whoever you like, but I have a lot of money and this will never go anywhere".

In opening the Crown case, Prosecutor Huw Baker said the woman had had quite a bit to drink.

"Her memory of some of the things that occurred is patchy," he said.

In his opening, Defence Barrister Graeme Turnbull SC told the jury his client did have sexual intercourse with the woman.

"Her conduct, you may find, was entirely consistent with a willing participant," he said.

The court heard the woman left her belongings at the beach and Gregory Cox handed them in at Kings Cross police station, where he gave his own details.

Mr Turnbull also said his client went back to the Bucket List bar, to ask if anyone knew her.

"If he is a rapist, is that consistent?" Mr Turnbull asked the jury.

Cox has pleaded not guilty to two charges of sexual intercourse without consent.

The trial continues.