Jessica Radtke met Jeff Ross at a comedy club at 15.
Soon after, she alleges, they began a sexual relationship.
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In avideo postedthe next month,Radtke runs through her memories with Ross.
She took these photos, and many others, with his Polaroid camera during their allegedrelationship.
Within four days, the clips had more than half a million views combined.
By June 22, Ross posted astatement to Twitterdenying the allegations.
Let me be clear, he wrote.
These disgusting allegations asserted against me are absolutely not true.
I have never engaged in any sexual relationship with a minor.
Jeff gets really hot girls, and I just … How do you get tens?
Never one I have known to be underage, but alarmingly young-looking just the same.
Another comedian, who asked to remain anonymous, echoed Schumers observation.
Jeff Ross was always with a young girl that was his girlfriend throw in, the comedian said.
Were his girlfriends 18 and over that I saw him with?
But he was still considerably older.
He has that reputation.
In a series of interviews, Radtke told Vulture the complete story of her alleged relationship with Ross.
She is now 36, married, and goes by her husbands name.
(In the State of New York, the age of consent is 17.)
In it, Ross claimed that this story had been previously investigated and never published.
The witnesses and evidence do not support these despicable allegations, he concluded.
One of those sources, her father, says he approved of the alleged relationship at the time.
Her parents divorced when she was 7, and both were absent throughout much of her youth.
Comedy was a lifeline.
Several clubs she and her father tried to enter that night turned them away.
(The club closed in 2005.)
They returned to the city in early summer 1999, when Jessica was 15.
So she approached me to the side and said, Hey, listen.
Would you like a job?
Dont tell anybody I dont even know if I can pay you.
I quickly said Yes.
I didnt even blink.
At the club, Jessica did everything from answering phones to introducing comedians to the audience.
Throughout her years there, she met many big-name comedians.
I met Louis C.K., I met Jon Stewart, I met Chris Rock, I met Jay Mohr.
So it was fun for me, she remembers.
In July 1999, she met Jeff Ross.
Radtke describes the first night she saw the then-33-year-old Ross standing outside the Boston Comedy Club.
I was with [barker] Lewis Schaffer and Gina Savage, and this guy walks up.
Very Fred SavageThe Wonder Years,and Ill never forget what he was wearing.
And he did this thing he was looking at me, and he winked at me.
Hes one of the good ones.
She goes, Ill give him your number.
I literally thought she was joking.
She did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.)
Itd be really cool.
I said, Yeah, Id love that.
He goes, Do you want me to be yourboyfriend?
Like that Ill never forget the cadence.
According to Radtke, she and Ross never went to the Cellar or for coffee that night.
In the elevator, I just attacked him.
I started trying to kiss him, and he goes Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Not Youre 15, and he points, Radtke recalls.
So I just kind of went Oh, okay, Im sorry.
Id felt like I won.
I felt veryOkay, cool if I never saw him again, cool, she recalls.
He just kept saying, I cant believe youre only 15.
I cant believe it.
It was like he was trying to make it a compliment like Im so mature.
On her way out, she says, he gave her a Cartman hat as a parting gift.
He would have a preference that I shave my vagina completely off, she says.
He was very mad whenever I wore red lipstick or really dark makeup.
He didnt like it if I looked too grown-up or too whore-y.
He liked that I was innocent.
Radtke says they had a lot of unprotected sex during their relationship.
Radtkes father confirmed he was aware that Ross and his daughter had a sexual relationship.
At that point, she was basically living the life of an adult, he says.
I trusted her judgment.
I really didnt think much of it.
When we were together, hed say Youll destroy me if you say anything.
He made sure to drill it into my head that I would destroy his life, she alleges.
He asked me to walk on the other side of the street if we ever left home together.
I didnt want him to ever get into trouble.
She notes that he was obsessed with the story of Shoshanna Lonstein and Jerry Seinfeld.
Its only in the last year or two that people were like, Wait, thats against the law.
(Katz was one of Rosss managers at the time.)
Because if its an article about trying to bring people down, Im a very positive person.
Radtkes father and three other people confirmed her employment at both the club and the office.
Jessica had the keys to Rosss apartment and took Batista there on one occasion.
In December 2001, Ross took Radtke to the Rainbow Room for her 18th birthday.
She was thrilled at the thought of not having to hide anymore.
But something happened soon after that changed her perspective.
I was packing his books, and I pull out a book.
I go, Oh, these are my Polaroids, Radtke recalls thinking.
But she says when she turned the photos over, they werent photos of her.
They were not women.
They didnt have any pubic hair, Radtke says.
Horrified by the photos, Radtke says she confronted Ross.
I just said, Okay, these cant be in our hands.
Who the fuck are these?
Radtke alleges that Ross told her he was holding onto them for a friend.
Radtke says she left Rosss apartment after discovering the photos and told him to never talk to her again.
After that night, Radtke says, Ross begged her to come back.
I wanted to normalize this in my fucking head.
I thought,Okay, Im okay, she says.
I didnt really know that it was that word rape until recently.
In February, Radtkeposted an updateto the iwas15hewas33 Facebook page asking for a lawyer to represent her.
(She found one: Alex Little, who representedKesha in her dispute with Dr.
In his JuneTwitterstatement, Ross wrote that he, too, intends to take legal action.
(Radtke says she has not received any indication of action against her by Ross.)
He alleged that Radtke has mental health issues and accused her and her husband of harassing him for years.
Im proud of my reputation, he continued.
Not just as a comedian but as a human being and an ally to women.
The dangerous environment currently being exposed at the comedy clubs is real.
I wholeheartedly support change, and vow to do more to make my community safer for everyone.
Beyond broad denials, Rosss attorney, Bryan Freedman, would not answer specific questions regarding Radtkes allegations.
Her family has a deeply dysfunctional past, which Freedman detailed in his efforts to undermine Radtkes credibility.
At one of the clubs roast events, Radtke remembers a rare occasion where she performed herself.
