Cricket star Chris Gayle will deny allegations that he exposed himself to a female masseuse in a changing room.
Gayle arrived at the NSW Supreme Court on Monday morning, wearing a black velvet jacket and huge designer sunglasses.
The former Melbourne Renegades player is suing Fairfax Media over nine articles – published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times in January last year – that claim he flashed the masseuse.
West Indies’ cricket star Chris Gayle arrives at the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney on Monday
The woman, Gayle and his West Indian teammate Dwayne Smith are expected to give evidence on what happened in the room during a training session at the World Cup in 2015, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Gayle claims the allegations ‘greatly injured his personal and professional reputation as well as his business by subjecting him to ‘odium, ridicule and contempt.’
Fairfax maintains the allegations are true and is standing by its articles, saying they were in the public interest as they came not long after Gayle’s infamous sideline interview with Mel McLaughlin, a female sports journalist, during which he told her: ‘Don’t blush, baby.’
Gayle will deny allegations that he exposed himself to a female masseuse in a changing room
The former Melbourne Renegades player is suing Fairfax Media over nine articles that claim he flashed the masseuse
The first article claimed that an Australian woman working as a massage therapist at the 2015 World Cup had wandering into the changing room searching for a sandwich for lunch.
She claimed Gayle, who was wearing just a towel, pulled it down to partly expose his genitals, and asked: ‘Are you looking for this?’
The hearing is expected to last 10 days.
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