Tziporah Malkah has revealed horrific details of the sexual assault she suffered as a 16 year old girl.
The now 44-year-old told Neighbourhood Paper that she was working as a model at the time, and was invited over to the home of a trusted friend and producer.
‘The lights were dim because we were watching (the film) The Deer Hunter. He was down one end of the couch and I was at the other… He was overweight even then and making snuffling noises. He’d been masturbating,’ the star – previously known as Kate Fischer – emotionally recalled.
‘He’d been masturbating’: In a candid interview with Neighbourhood Paper, Tziporah Malkah recalled horrific details of the sexual assault she suffered as a young model, and also opened up about an abortion and suicidal ideation
Tziporah told the website that the producer then ejaculated and threw semen onto her face.
‘At first, I didn’t quite know what it was – I kind of did, but wasn’t sure. And I gasped, shocked. I cried, ‘Gross! You’re gross! That’s disgusting! And he said, ‘Kiss me!’ He just kept coming for me,’ she stated.
After fleeing the producer’s apartment, the then-teenager returned to her own residence and told her roommates about the incident.
Way back when: Tziporah as a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl, just two years before she was sexually assaulted by a trusted male friend and producer
In the candid interview with Neighbourhood Paper, Tziporah also revealed she had an abortion at the same age, after falling pregnant with her older boyfriend.
The star was living in New York at the time and pursuing her modelling career.
She told the website: ‘I came back to Australia straight afterwards. 16. I was numb. I couldn’t afford an abortion – I didn’t have insurance – so my modelling agency loaned me $5,000. One of the best gynecologists in New York.’
Highs and lows: Tziporah enjoyed a successful modelling career, but was traumatised by a sexual assault that occurred at the age of 16 (pictured in 1994, aged 20)
Turbulent: Tziporah became a prominent figure on Australia’s social scene (pictured aged in 1996, aged 22)
Tziporah claimed the agency informed her mother, politician Pru Goward, of the procedure.
Despite stating that she would have been a loving parent, Tziporah said that her child – who would now be 27 years old – would have been ‘a mess’.
The beauty went on to forge a successful modelling career at home in Australia, and began a five year relationship with billionaire James Packer – to whom she was engaged.
Following the end of that relationship, Tziporah returned to the US, but after being swindled out of money by a boyfriend, she found herself broke and back home in Australia by 2011.
Tziporah was living in a homeless shelter and told Neighbourhood Paper that without distractions such as sex, expensive clothes and travel she contemplated suicide.
The star revealed she had even planned how and where she would end her own life.
In 2016, Tziporah returned to the spotlight, and later appeared as a contestant on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
She currently lives in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
High profile relationship: Tziporah dated Australian billionaire James Packer from 1993 until 1998
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