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Robert Kraft affidavit: Patriots owner visited ‘Orchids of Asia’ spa for sex acts before AFC title game

  • Details regarding billionaire NFL mogul Robert Kraft’s massage parlour visits released in court documents
  • Human trafficking investigation sees 10 Florida spas closed where police say some workers born in China were forced to live

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, whose team won the Super Bowl earlier this month, denies charges of soliciting prostitution. Photo: AFP

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft visited a Florida massage parlour for sex acts the night before and the morning of last month’s AFC championship game, authorities said on Monday in documents charging him with two misdemeanour counts of soliciting prostitution.

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Kraft is one of hundreds of men charged in recent days as part of a crackdown on prostitution allegedly occurring in massage parlours between Palm Beach and Orlando. Ten spas have been closed and several people, most of them women originally from China, have been charged with running the operation.

The 77-year-old Kraft was chauffeured to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in a 2014 white Bentley on the evening of January 19, where police say they videotaped him engaging in a sex act and then handing over an undetermined amount of cash, Jupiter police said in charging documents released by the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office.

Police say Robert Kraft visited the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, twice. Photo: AFP
Police say Robert Kraft visited the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, twice. Photo: AFP
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Investigators said Kraft returned 17 hours later, arriving at the upper-middle class shopping centre where the spa was located in a chauffeured 2015 blue Bentley, the documents said. Kraft, who is worth US$6 billion, was videotaped engaging in sex acts before paying with a US$100 bill and another bill, police said. He then flew to Kansas City to watch his Patriots defeat the Chiefs in overtime hours later.

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