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Suicide Squad actor Joel Kinnaman is under investigation for rape in his native Sweden, TMZ first reported.
Kinnaman, who starred in both 2016’s Suicide Squad and the 2021 reboot The Suicide Squad, has claimed that the accusation comes from an obsessed woman wanting revenge for a restraining order.
In a statement to the New York Post, Kinnaman’s legal team claimed the alleged victim, a Swedish model, only made the rape accusation public after he went to the police himself for a restraining order.
In a post to Instagram last week, Kinnaman alleged that he was being extorted by model Gabriella Magnusson, who goes by the name Bella Davis.
As reported by the New York Post, he filed an extortion complaint against Davis in Sweden and got a restraining order against her in Los Angeles.
“It appears that after learning of the restraining order, she filed her complaint,” his lawyer Patricia Glaser told the publication.
“The court papers that Mr Kinnaman filed stated, among other things, that Ms Davis threatened to publicise false information about Mr Kinnaman – including that he had sex with her against her will – unless he capitulated to her monetary and other demands, which included Hollywood introductions, a work visa sponsorship, a blue verification checkmark on Instagram, and more,” said Glaser.
Glaser added that Kinnaman will be cooperating with police “to clear his name.”
In response to the temporary restraining order, Davis told E! News that she never threatened Kinnaman for money and that he “should have an Oscar for how he’s writing and acting.”
According to Kinnaman via his Instagram post, Davis became “increasingly obsessive” in late 2018 after the second time they had consensual sex and didn’t spend the night together.
“The next day she texted me that she was bothered that I had not asked her to spend the night and that I did not check with her to make sure she made it home safely,” he wrote.
From there, he alleges that Davis contacted him again in 2019 and 2020 asking to meet up, which he ignored due to being in a relationship.
“But Bella continued to try to communicate with me – texting and calling from other people’s phones – and these communications became more and more antagonistic, threatening, and frightening over time,” he said.
Kimman continued on to claim that Davis threatened to go public to say he “had sex with her against her will.”
“At one point, she stated, ‘Do you know how much money I would get and how famous I would be if I went to the press?” he wrote.
He continued: “She also made threats of physical violence against me and my family by herself and others, including her brother, a convicted felon, who pointed a rifle at my manager.”
“I want to be VERY clear so there is no misunderstanding: I stand by all victims of sexual assault. That is not what occurred here. This was consensual sex. And now it is an attempt to extort,” he concluded.
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