Football regulator contacts West Ham over ‘serious allegations’ against Sullivan

One woman, Florence (not her real name), said she felt forced to have sex with Sullivan in 1999 when she went to his Essex mansion for a business meeting

Sullivan looked at her modelling portfolio, she said, and then asked her to strip down to her underwear, which she did.

“I’ll give you a little bit of work because you’ve taken the trouble,” she recalled him saying. But she said he then told her in crude language that if she let him have sex with her, “then you’ll be one of my regular girls”.

“You’ll be in all the magazines. I can give you covers, I can give you centrefolds, and you’ll be one of my Sport girls,” she recalled him saying.

Florence said she panicked and told him her boyfriend was outside and that she was on her period, but Sullivan was undeterred.

“This is the bit that will haunt me forever,” she said. “He lifted his pinky in the air – his little finger – and he went, it’s all right, I’ll only put it in a little bit.”

He then manoeuvred her into a bedroom, she said. She did not want to have sex, she told us, but she cannot be sure how she expressed it and whether he got the message.

She was in “pure panic mode”, Florence said, and she is “99.999999%” sure that she was telling him: “I don’t want to, I don’t want to.” But she said she does not know how loud she said that.

Sullivan pulled his jogging bottoms down and then penetrated her, Florence said.

Lawyers for David Sullivan said Florence’s account is “implausible” given the layout of his house.