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Elton John denies assaulting former security guard
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 31 March 2016
Elton John has denied claims made by a former security guard that the singer groped him and made sexually suggestive comments.
The claims are made in legal documents filed on Monday by Jeffrey Wenninger. The LA police officer worked for John while off duty between 2002 and 2014. He also alleges that he was unfairly removed from the musician’s security team in September 2014.
Wenninger says that John made a number of inappropriate advances over the years he worked for him, and that they increased in “frequency and intensity” after 2010. In particular, he claims that he was assaulted during a car journey in March 2014, and that two other incidents took place the same month.
But in a statement, a lawyer representing John’s Rocket Entertainment Group, Orin Snyder, said: “This baseless lawsuit is brought by a disgruntled former security officer seeking to extract an undeserved payment. These claims are patently untrue and contradicted by numerous previous statements made by this plaintiff. We will not give in to his latest abuse of the legal system”.
As well as launching legal action against John, Wenninger is also suing the private company through which he was contracted to work for the star. He claims that he was fired after reporting another police officer for overtime theft.
