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Ironically, the woman’s name is now protected by a court-imposed publication ban.

The interview with Brown, a good friend of the woman and co-author of the original Toronto Star story on the allegations that Ghomeshi was physically violent to his partners, is important because it may suggest why prosecutors are expected to withdraw the single charge once the 48-year-old former CBC star signs a peace bond at the Old City Hall courts in downtown Toronto.

In other words, this complainant, like the three who went before her in March at Ghomeshi’s first trial, may be vulnerable to questions about her credibility.

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The first group of three women — among them Trailer Park actor and air force captain Lucy DeCoutere and Linda Redgrave, who only recently had the ban on her identity lifted — were wholly discredited when they failed to disclose the length and breadth of their contact with Ghomeshi and made critical last-minute disclosures to prosecutors.

As a direct result, the judge found they were unreliable witnesses and acquitted Ghomeshi of four counts of sexual assault and one of choking with intent to overcome resistance to sex assault.

All three had casually dated the former Q host and claimed, publicly and in the witness stand, that once he purportedly assaulted them, the casual relationships with him swiftly ended.

But as emerged in cross-examination by Ghomeshi’s lead lawyer, Marie Henein, that wasn’t true.

After their alleged assaults, DeCoutere pursued Ghomeshi by email, sent him a hand-written love letter and once told him in no uncertain terms she wanted to have sex with him, while Redgrave sent him a come-hither picture of herself in a bikini and the third complainant admitted having given him a consensual hand job after a night out.