Tale 'crock,' 2nd dancer told police

DURHAM -- An escort service dancer told police early on that a fellow dancer's allegations of rape at a Duke University lacrosse team party were a "crock."

In two interviews with investigators, Kim Roberts told of rude behavior but no sexual assault.

Investigator Benjamin Himan contacted her March 20, a week after the party, according to notes filed in court Thursday.

Roberts, 31, said she was separated from the accuser less than five minutes on March 13 and 14, when the two performed at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.

Roberts, who in later media interviews said she is unsure whether a rape occurred, could not be reached Thursday. She detailed the night for police in a handwritten statement March 22.

Roberts went to the house at 11 p.m. and was paid $400 up front. The accuser arrived in a red negligee about 11:30 p.m. The two women had not met.

As they discussed their dance plan in a bathroom, someone knocked and handed them two drinks. They sipped what Roberts thought was rum and Coke; the accuser spilled most of hers.

Shortly after the women started dancing for 20 to 25 men in the living room, Roberts said, the accuser appeared intoxicated.

"We continued with the performance," Roberts wrote, "until one of the boys brought out a broomstick and after asking if we had any toys, said he would use the broomstick on us."

Roberts said she stopped the show. The women huddled in the bathroom. "She was uncontrollable at this point and yelling at the boys who were banging on the door to leave us alone," Roberts wrote.

Roberts left in her dancing gear. The accuser came to the car, Roberts wrote, and returned to the house "because she felt there was more money to make."

As Roberts changed in the car, she said, partiers told her the dancer had passed out. The accuser was helped to the car but without her bag. Roberts asked where her things were; the accuser said, "Here."

"In my opinion, she was talking crazy," Roberts said.

As the dancers left, men shouted racial slurs, and Roberts called police to report them.

Roberts drove the other dancer to a 24-hour Kroger.