Indcoup brings us a transcript of an Australian television interview with Michelle Leslie - the Australian lingerie model who was busted in Bali for ecstasy while with the son of an Indonesian government minister, faked a conversion to Islam while in prison (abandoning the lingerie for a burqa) and now states that she was threatened with rape and worse.:
…it was with great anticipation that I awaited for Michelle Leslie to come clean on the Aussie TV show 60 minutes (You can either see the video or download the show’s transcript here).
While she admits she ain’t really a Muslim but took to wearing a burka (to avoid getting raped by those nasty horny Indonesian prison guards, obviously), and that she paid up to US$300,000 in bribes to the Indonesian officials, she doesn’t, unfortunately, really say much about the involvement of Bakrie’s kid:
LIZ HAYES: This 25-year-old, who’d made her career in front of the camera, now shrank from the overwhelming attention. But then it was revealed that the son of the Indonesian Finance Minister had been in the car the night of Michelle’s arrest. Once again, she was front-page news, and days later, a late-night visitor came to her cell.
MICHELLE LESLIE: He was like, you know, ‘Make sure you don’t tell anybody about the people that’s in the car or you’re in danger here. We can get in here, there’s no problems. Be careful for your life.’
LIZ HAYES: Did you believe him?
MICHELLE LESLIE: Yeah.
LIZ HAYES: So you took that as a threat?
MICHELLE LESLIE: Yes.
LIZ HAYES: And do you still believe that that was a threat?
MICHELLE LESLIE: Yes.
LIZ HAYES: Who would do that?
MICHELLE LESLIE: I don’t know. He was obviously well-connected enough to be able to get in there, because nobody was allowed in there.
LIZ HAYES: But the strategy of ‘whatever it takes’ succeeded. She was released after just three months.But that’s it. Too many questions are left unanswered. How did she come to know Bakrie’s kid in the first place? Whose car was she in? And most obviously of all, why didn’t he stop the police from searching her? And couldn’t he have arranged to pay off the police BEFORE it went to court?
AsiaPundit agrees that there is much more to this, and it expects it will be answered following a book deal and ‘movie of the week.’
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June 11th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
“lingerie model” ..who said she was…I think she posed once maybe twice. I guess you have fallen into a class of writer that makes me not want to read past the first few lines.
There once was an architect, that builds 1000 bridges, but he once had a fling with some guy.
Guess what he’s known for ….bridge building or Co*ck sucking? You seen to have tared her with the same brush, does it make your writing any more believable or objective? Hmmmmmmm I’m wondering
June 12th, 2006 at 11:48 am
From Wiki: “Michelle Leslie (born 1981), who also works under the name Michelle Lee, is an Australian model. Leslie is best known as a model for Antz Pantz (ed: underware) and Crystelle lingerie, and for her 2005 arrest, conviction and three-month imprisonment (time served) for possessing two ecstasy tablets in Bali.” Though she also seems to have done ample work involving swimware. What’s the problem?