Daniel Pytlarz: Paul McCartney’s aide ‘groped by masseur’ due to see Beatles star the next day

By
Sam Greenhill

10:42 EST, 14 May 2012

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06:11 EST, 15 May 2012

A masseur booked to treat Sir Paul McCartney sexually assaulted one of the Beatle’s employees, a court heard yesterday.

The woman said she booked Daniel Pytlarz to come to the star’s North London home, and had ‘jumped at the chance’ when he offered to treat her for free beforehand.

But she told jurors she was in ‘total shock’ when Pytlarz, 34, touched her intimately as she lay naked on a  massage table.

Daniel Pytlarz is alleged to have molested a woman during a complimentary massage

Daniel Pytlarz is alleged to have molested a woman during a complimentary massage

She called police that evening, and also
told Sir Paul she had been molested – leading the singer immediately to
cancel the appointment for Pytlarz to massage him and his then
girlfriend Nancy Shevell, whom he has since married.

Southwark Crown Court has already heard how married Pytlarz – who denies
inappropriately touching 18 female clients over a period of two and a
half years – offered women ‘tantric massages’ and ‘deep relaxation
massages’, which prosecutors said were euphemisms to cover up his
‘predatory behaviour’.

One of his alleged victims was a teenager whose treatment was a 17th birthday present from her mother, the court has heard.

Yesterday, Sir Paul’s former employee, who cannot be named for legal
reasons, told jurors: ‘My boss was looking for a masseuse or masseur in
London as his regular one wasn’t available, so he asked me to get a
recommendation from his daughter.’

Cancelled appointment: Nancy Shevell with Sir Paul McCartney

Cancelled
appointment:
Nancy Shevell
with Sir Paul
McCartney

The daughter – she did not identify which of Sir Paul’s daughters it was
– had previously been a client at Pytlarz’s upmarket Violet Clinic Body
Skincare spa in St John’s Wood, North West London.

The woman said she visited his clinic on December 17, 2009, the day
before Pytlarz was due to treat Sir Paul and Miss Shevell.

She said she
thought it was ‘unusual’ when Pytlarz began on her legs rather than the
neck and shoulders.

As his hands moved higher up her thighs, she said she ‘flinched’ when he
‘caught her’ intimately but thought it might have been an accident
until it happened again.

She told the court: ‘I just thought, “Oh God”. All sorts of things were
running through my head. I was trying to stop myself panicking.

‘I was wriggling and clenching up and I was crying, but because my face
was down in the hole on the bed, he couldn’t see. But I believed it was
perfectly clear I was uncomfortable and in distress.

‘It felt like it went on for ever. I was frightened that if I said
anything, as far as I knew I was alone in this place with him.

‘He could have locked the door. I had no idea what could have happened. I
just wanted to get through it and get out of there.’ 

The woman said
she tensed her body up in a ‘coffin-like’ position with her arms by her
side and legs together until he finished the massage abruptly and told
her to get dressed.

As she went upstairs to leave, she said Pytlarz’s wife, with whom he
runs the clinic, could see she had been crying but tried to charge her
for the massage.

She said: ‘I was very angry. I remember saying, “I’m absolutely not
paying for this” and then left. It was galling asking to be paid for
being sexually assaulted.

‘When I got outside I was in total shock and disbelief. I was crying and
shaking. It felt like everything was spinning around me.’

She said Pytlarz sent her a text message a few days later ‘to find out
if everything was OK as the appointment for my boss and his girlfriend
had been cancelled, and my boss’s daughter had also cancelled an
appointment’.

Eleanor Laws QC, defending, put it to the witness that she was not
telling the truth and had simply not wanted Sir Paul to know that she
had accepted the offer of a free massage but she denied this.
Pytlarz, of St John’s Wood, denies sexual assault.

The trial continues.

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