Julie Swetnick accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of spiking drinks with drugs to “target particular girls so they could be taken advantage of.” | Win McNamee/Getty Images Congress Third Kavanaugh accuser steps forward

A third woman stepped forward Wednesday through her attorney to lodge allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accusing him and a friend of attending house parties where women — including herself — were sexually assaulted.

She specifically accuses Kavanaugh of spiking drinks with drugs to “target particular girls so they could be taken advantage of.”


The woman, identified by her attorney, Michael Avenatti as Julie Swetnick, does not accuse Kavanaugh himself of sexually assaulting her in the sworn statement. But she described having met Kavanaugh in the 1980-1981 time period and subsequently attending 10 house parties where she said Kavanaugh and a close friend of his, Mark Judge, attended.

Swetnick wrote that she witnessed Kavanaugh on several occasions “drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct, including being overly aggressive with girls and not taking ‘No’ for an answer. This conduct included the fondling and grabbing of girls without their consent.”

In the statement, Swetnick asserts Kavanaugh was present when she was the victim of a “gang rape” by multiple boys at one party. And she refers to Kavanaugh “a mean drunk” whom she witnessed acting “verbally abusive toward girls, including pressing girls against him without their consent,“ and “Grinding against girls and attempting to remove or shift girls’ clothing to expose private body parts.”

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In her declaration, Swetnick said she graduated from Gaithersburg High School. A spokesperson for Montgomery County Public Schools confirmed she attended the high school and graduated in 1980. Kavanaugh, who attended Georgetown Prep, graduated in 1983.

Swetnick is registered as a Democrat, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

Avenatti said Swetnick is prepared to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but he charged that the committee had failed to respond to that offer or his offer that Swetnick submit to polygraph testing.

On Wednesday, the committee acknowledged receiving Avenatti’s declaration and a spokesperson said lawyers were reviewing it.

“This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone,” Kavanaugh said in a statement released through the White House. “I don’t know who this is and this never happened.”

POLITICO reported Wednesday that Richard Vinneccy, Swetnick’s ex-boyfriend, filed a restraining order against her in 2001 in Miami and described her in an interview as “not credible at all.” (The case was dismissed, shortly after an affidavit of non-ability to advance fees was filed.)

The revelation of Swetnick’s identity came after Avenatti, a hard-charging anti-Trump agitator, was accused in a viral Internet post of actually representing a fraud after being duped by a third party. Since Avenatti first made overtures about representing a Kavanaugh accuser, he said he was the subject of online threats and on Tuesday locked his Twitter account.

Avenatti, who is exploring a 2020 presidential run, depicted the episode as an intimidation attempt.

“Here’s my message to Donald Trump, Sen. Grassley, Sen. McConnell and their surrogates: you better be very very careful before you launch some smear campaign against my client who is 100 percent credible,” Avenatti told POLITICO. “Because if you do, I will do everything in my power to expose you for the fraud that you are.”

The president lashed out at Avenatti on Twitter early Wednesday afternoon.

“Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships - a total low-life!“ Trump tweeted.

Avenatti had earlier posted on Twitter a photo of his client and her statement, which says she is a former government worker who still holds security clearances for the Public Trust, U.S. Mint and the IRS.

Asked if she would step forward publicly on Wednesday and submit to a media interview, Avenatti told POLITICO: “We’re going to wait and see how the day progresses.”

Avenatti previously told POLITICO he offered her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee but was rebuffed and added that his client would make her allegations public even if the committee did not allow for her testimony.

“She is courageous, brave and honest. We ask that her privacy and that of her family be respected,” Avenatti wrote over Twitter.