Wealthy couple who ‘drugged a woman and forced her into a violent threesome at Sundance Film Festival’ charged with rape, sex abuse and sodomy
The alleged victim met Anne Hardcastle and Michael Taylor in a bar in Utah where they were staying for the festival
A WEALTHY New York couple accused of forcing a woman into a threesome which left her hospitalised have been sent to Utah to face charges.
Anne Hardcastle, 27, and Michael Taylor, 45, were extradited from Manhattan Criminal Court to Summit County Utah on Wednesday to face charges of object rape and forcible sexual abuse.
Hardcastle also faces an additional offence of forcible sodomy after the alleged incident at the Sundance Film Festival.
The globe-trotting have been held since September 9 by New York police.
It's reported they met the woman while they were in Utah for January's world-famous Sundance film event.
Court papers claim Taylor bought three rounds of tequila as the couple chatted the woman up and then invited her to an after-party.
The pair then allegedly gave the woman more alcohol and the drug Ecstasy before suggesting the threesome.
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The 'victim' said she texted two friends saying she might need a ride home soon but before she could escape everything “went black”, she told prosecutors.
She claims she woke up next to Hardcastle with scratch marks all over her upper body, suction marks on her neck, bruises and bite marks on her arm, a bitten lower lip and acute vaginal pain.
The 'victim' headed to a nearby hospital at which time she found an Instagram friend request from Hardcastle.
Detectives advised her to find out all she could about that night through Hardcastle, who according to the court papers admitted she molested her, performed oral sex on her and licked her breasts, prosecutors said.
“You said you liked it rough and so I gave you what you wanted,” Hardcastle later told the woman in an online message, prosecutors claim.