A Dublin woman, who claims her boyfriend raped her, told a jury yesterday he had been a gigolo with a Limerick prostitute and a woman from Limavady, Co Derry.
The 35-year-old alleged victim said: "When I realised what a gigolo was, I did not want him in my life".
The Central Criminal Court has heard that the woman worked for a religious order.
On Wednesday she claimed her boyfriend, a 29-year-old Jamaican musician, had previously told her he had "played the gigolo" before meeting her. She thought a "gigolo" was a musical instrument.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to rape and anal rape of the woman in their Dublin city centre flat after a party on August 25th, 1996. He also denies assaulting her after the party but has pleaded guilty to biting her on the back on September 12th, 1996.
In evidence, the accused told his counsel, Mr Erwan Mill Arden SC (with Mr Cormac Quinn BL), he did not rape or assault the woman after the party. He said he was annoyed about being brought to the party to be shown off to her friends and he left with her soon after they arrived. Later at their flat, she attacked him as he was urinating.
He knocked her down and she may have received bruises as he struggled with her. He slept on a settee that night. The next morning he packed his bags and left.
He saw her occasionally after that and she wanted him to return to her. He did not want to.
He said they had sex a number of times after August 25th, 1996, but he had met the northern woman and did not want to move back in with the alleged victim.
He was arrested in January by gardai looking for a gun she alleged he had threatened her with in September. He said she was referring to a "Power Ranger" toy gun she never saw.
He said the alleged victim visited him while he was on remand in Mountjoy. She told him she wanted to drop the charges but had been threatened she would be charged herself with wasting police time.
Earlier, the woman rejected Mr Mill Arden's suggestion that her claims of rape and assault arose from their failed relationship.
She agreed she had spent a short time in St Brendan's psychiatric hospital, and said it was due to stress brought on by the alleged rape. Before meeting the defendant she had been in St Brendan's briefly and had recovered from depression.
Mr Mill Arden suggested she was making all sorts of allegations about gigolos and a gun to cast his client in a bad light. She denied this. She also denied having sex with him after the alleged rape or trying to get him to move back in with her.
She said she visited him in prison and gave him £5 after friends of his told her the visit would be in her "best interests". They also told her to drop the case.
She claimed the defendant had been a gigolo with a prostitute he had met in Limerick before coming to Dublin. That woman had been too terrified to come forward, she said.
She also alleged the accused man had beaten up and stolen money from the Limavady woman. The woman phoned her and said she was going to go to the gardai and the RUC. However, she failed to contact gardai again, the alleged victim said.
The trial, before Mr Justice Paul Carney and the jury, continues.