Avenatti ties judge to gang rapes

Lawyer Michael Avenatti told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that he has multiple witnesses who can say Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, participated in gang rapes of drunken women during high school.

‘‘We are aware of significant evidence of multiple house parties in the Washington, DC, area during the early 1980s during which Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge and others would participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them,’’ Avenatti said in an email to Mike Davis, chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Avenatti did not disclose any details or identities of his witnesses.

Avenatti, who made a name for himself as porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, aired the allegations yesterday as another allegation against Kavanaugh emerged in The New Yorker.

Judge, Kavanaugh’s high school friend, has previously denied that any sexual misconduct took place.

Avenatti hinted at the nature of his allegations when he suggested to the Senate Judiciary Committee a series of questions to ask Kavanaugh. One of his questions: ‘‘Did you ever target one or more women for sex or rape at a house party? Did you ever assist Mark Judge or others in doing so?’’ Also, Avenatti suggested asking Kavanaugh: ‘‘Did you ever attend any house party during which a woman was gang raped or used for sex by multiple men?’’ And: ‘‘Did you ever witness a line of men outside a bedroom at any house party where you understood a woman was in the bedroom being raped or taken advantage of?’’

Avenatti also said Kavanaugh should be asked if he ever tried to prevent men from raping or taking advantage of women at any house party.

The new allegations follow the claims of Christine Blasey Ford, who claims that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a high school party.

Ford, who was 15 at the time, told The Washington Post that then-17-year-old Kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom, groped her and tried to pull off her clothes while covering her mouth with his hand so she couldn’t scream.

‘‘I thought he might inadvertently kill me,’’ she said. ‘‘He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.’’

Kavanaugh has denied Ford’s allegations.

‘‘I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation,’’ he said in a statement distributed by the White House. ‘‘I did not do this back in high school or at any time.’’ Late Sunday, Deborah Ramirez told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her at a dorm party when they were both at Yale.

She said Kavanaugh ‘‘thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.’’

‘‘Brett was laughing,’’ she told the magazine. ‘‘I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you pull up your pants.’’

Kavanaugh also denied Ramirez’s accusations.

– NY Daily News

‘‘Did you ever attend any house party during which a woman was gang raped or used for sex by multiple men?’’ Question Michael Avenatti wants Brett Kavanaugh to be asked