Kinky relationship between Ed Henry and alleged rape victim revealed
The raunchy text messages between ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry, 53, and his alleged victim Jennifer Eckhart, 34, could threaten her rape case against him as their kinky relationship is on display.
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EXCLUSIVEShocking claims of rape against ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry could unravel as kinky texts with alleged victim are revealed
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Raunchy texts between ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry and a young female staffer revealed in a new legal filing threaten to undercut her shocking claims of rape.
A 2020 lawsuit by former Fox Business associate producer Jennifer Eckhart, 34, accused Henry, 53, of handcuffing, beating and raping her in 2017, after a campaign of predatory 'grooming' and 'manipulation'.
But on Monday, Henry's lawyers unveiled texts between the two that they claimed show an enthusiastic and 'consensual', albeit kinky, relationship.
Just days after she claimed he raped her, Eckhart, 34, texted Henry: 'You wanna f*** me,' 'Come spread them and slide my bikini off', 'F***ing dirty boy. I love it,' and 'Want it. Badly,' according to screenshots of text messages in his latest legal filing.
The new court papers also described 15 naked and explicit photos she allegedly sent Henry, who co-hosted the show America's Newsroom, in the two weeks after the alleged rape.
Five of the 15 photos were not of her, but other women, Henry's new motion stated.
The legal filing said they had sadomasochistic, kinky sex on February 10, 2017, that was prompted by Eckhart's 'highly provocative sexting.' The physical encounter involved Henry hitting her with a belt, and restraining her with handcuffs.
Although rough, Henry claimed it was all agreed on beforehand, saying she 'sent Ed a photograph of a belt' and told him in a text message that she would 'always obey and make myself available to u', adding 'You NEED my 26-year-old p***y.’
Raunchy texts between ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry, 53, and a young female staffer who accused him of raping her, show their kinky relationship, according to Henry's lawyers
Former Fox Business associate producer Jennifer Eckhart, 34, filed a 2020 lawsuit that accused Henry, 53, of handcuffing, beating and raping her in 2017 after a campaign of 'grooming'
Just days after she claimed he raped her, Eckhart texted Henry: 'You wanna f*** me,' 'Come spread them and slide my bikini off', according to screenshots of text messages in his latest legal filing
The day before the sexual encounter, Henry texted Eckhart: 'Gentle little wh**e. Gonna get tossed around like a rag doll,' and she replied 'Love that,' according to the WhatsApp screenshots.
Henry has been married to NPR Managing Editor Shirley Henry since 2010.
And his legal filing alleged that Eckhart cherry-picked excerpts of their text conversations to cast him as a rapist when he claimed that it was instead a steamy, consensual affair.
'All the WhatsApp messages preserved for litigation are selectively chosen photographs of a portion of Jennifer's communications with Ed,' his lawyers wrote.
'Many of these messages, including most of the ones Jennifer thinks are incriminating, have been cut off to obscure a final comment by Jennifer expressing pleasure, agreement or desire.'
The photos supposedly sent by Eckhart to Henry ten days after the alleged rape, included 'a photograph of herself in black lingerie with the tips of the two middle fingers of her left hand inserted into her panties'; 'a photograph of herself lying sideways in her underwear on the bed, breast thrust forward'; 'a photograph of a woman from a side view showing a nearly naked bottom'; and 'a photograph of her own fully exposed, slightly parted vagina lathered in soap'.
'Ed and Jennifer also continued sexting in the weeks after and months after the alleged rape, with frequent references to rough, consensual sex, with Jennifer often initiating,’ the filing said.
In her original legal complaint, filed in June 2020, Eckhart accused Henry of having 'groomed, psychologically manipulated and coerced [her] into having a sexual relationship with him', and that the alleged twisted process began 'at the young age of 24, by exerting his abuse of power over her and her career.'
Henry has been married to NPR Managing Editor Shirley Henry since 2010 amid numerous sex scandals including a tryst with Las Vegas stripper Natalie Lima
The legal filing said they had kinky sex on February 10 that was prompted by Eckhart's 'highly provocative sexting.' The sex was rough, Henry stated, but she sent a photograph of a belt beforehand
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