A first-time Airbnb host locked herself in her room with a knife after she was allegedly raped by a graphic designer guest who told her the next day she would leave a “good review”.
The unidentified South Londoner claims Diego Dellarovere, 43, from nearby Kensington, raped her at her Croydon home in 2021 after offering to give her a massage while rubbing her shoulders.
“He said the massage at that point and followed me very closely and came up behind me and started rubbing my shoulder and I said: ‘No, thank you,'” he told detectives in a taped drama before the court.
“Then when I was sitting on the couch he touched my leg and said: ‘Put on some spa music and I can massage you.’ He said: ‘I have oil. I’ll give you a massage,’” he said, according to the Daily Mail.
They had been chatting on the sofa over a glass of wine when he realized she was “a bit clever”, but he let it slide because “he’s Italian and they do,” she said, according to The Sun.
Then “things changed” and he held her “quite hard” and kissed her neck and chest while putting his hands inside her leggings, she said.
The unidentified South Londoner claims Diego Dellarovere, 43, from Kensington, raped her at her home in 2021 after offering to give her a massage. Diego Dellarovere/Facebook
“I said ‘no’ a lot and refused and he stuck his tongue in my mouth and moved from there to my breast and his hands went into my leggings,” she said, according to the Telegraph.
He then allegedly pulled her pants and underwear and forced her to perform sexual acts on him.
“At one stage he managed to get my top off and then I was like: ‘You’ve got to stop this,’ but it was another good half hour. [before] stopping his progress,” she said. “I was like: ‘I think you should go to bed’ and he went to bed and I blocked my door.”
She gathered her dog and cat and locked herself in her room with her kitchen knife, blocking the door with a piece of furniture, she said.
But Dellarovere started texting her, asking to share a bed, allegedly promising that “I won’t do anything,” The Sun reported.
“I said ‘no’ a lot and refused and he put his tongue in my mouth and moved from there to my breast and his hands went into my leggings,” the accuser said. Diego Dellarovere/Facebook
The woman was so distressed she called a friend, who told jurors the victim sounded “very upset.”
“He was scared, he was so scared of what was going to happen that he kept saying, ‘I don’t know why this happened to me’ and he kept repeating, ‘I said no,'” the friend said.
When the woman and her friend met later, she said the victim was “very depressed, very tearful, and started shaking.”
Dellarovere eventually left the apartment and returned around 2 a.m., the Telegraph reported. He went to sleep in the spare room and told her the next day he would “leave a good review.”
The woman reportedly only planned to report the incident to Airbnb but reconsidered filing a police report after realizing her alleged assailant might strike again.
“My thought is that he’s probably going to do that to somebody again so I want his name flagged,” he told detectives.
Dellarovere allegedly pulled down her pants and underwear and forced the host to perform sexual acts on her. Diego Dellarovere/Facebook
Dellarovere was his first guest and he admitted he thought it was strange that he needed a room when he lived nearby in Kensington, but he accepted the request.
He had left Dealrovere a neutral comment on the platform, where he allegedly sent her a message saying the assault was consensual and told her he “loved her,” the Daily Mail reported.
“I don’t see any objection from you,” he wrote, telling the woman he was “oppressed” and “not a good person.”
The graphic designer denied verbally raping the woman or sexually assaulting her.
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