’83 SEX ASSAULT

Rolling Stone big Wenner accused of sick attack

AN EX-ROLLING Stone employee said Jann Wenner — the co-founder of the storied magazine — sexually assaulted him in 1983 after a night of heavy boozing and doing cocaine.

The accuser, Jonathan Wells, said in a BuzzFeed News story on Friday that, weeks after the assault, Wenner gave him a job in the glossy’s now-defunct book publishing division — to keep a sexual relationship going.

“When I started working there, Jann wasn’t too interested in what I did,” Wells said. “I knew when I started working there, there was always the question of a continuing sexual relationship.”

Wells said he met Wenner (photo inset) through mutual friends and was at his apartment in February 1983. He said he was assaulted in the study after being plied with alcohol and drugs.

“I was lying back and he put himself on top of me,” Wells recalled, explaining that the two were naked because Wenner had just called for a prostitute.

“He was kissing me, but you know, normal stuff, kissing my chest. I remember him putting his . . . in my mouth .. . . I remember his hair on my stomach.”

Wells, who was 28 at the time, said the incident occurred after he told Wenner, then 37, that his father accused him of being gay even though he was not.

After the assault, Wells said, he got his clothes and “just tore out of there and ran home and showered.”

“I was terrified he was going to catch me,” he added.

Wenner denied the assault to BuzzFeed News.

“I am completely surprised by these allegations, as we have remained friends for almost 35 years since then,” Wenner said. “I sincerely believed our relationship was totally mutual and consensual — absolutely, and without question.” Wells said that after the assault, he had consensual sex with Wenner on two separate occasions because he thought he might be gay. Weeks after the assault, Wenner offered Wells a job as director of Rolling Stone Press, the book publishing division. Wenner would ask him to dinner and to hang out, but Wells started making excuses and saying he was busy until Wenner eventually backed off.

In 1985, he was fired. Though he did not perceive it as being retaliation at the time, he told BuzzFeed News that maybe he was naive.

Wenner was previously accused of harassment in November by Rolling Stone writer Ben Ryan.

Ryan told BuzzFeed News that he refused Wenner’s advances and was offered a 25-story contract in exchange for sex during a 2005 meeting at his townhouse.

Wenner said he did flirt with Ryan but he never offered him work for sex.