Koo’s former boyfriend asks for peace
NZPA London Robert Winsor, a former boyfriend of Koo Stark, the girl now holidaying with Prince Andrew, has made an anguished plea: “Leave my wife and Lin peace.”
In a statement issued through his solicitors to the British News Agency Press Association, Mr Winsor said that the news media attention he had been receiving was causing him and his wife distress. His solicitors said that his wife was “becoming extremely upset about the continuous harassment." British tabloids have plastered stories of Miss Stark’s holiday with the Prince, aged 22, across their front pages.
A well-informed source said that the two are staying with three friends and Miss Stark’s mother at a house on the island of Mustique.
Mr Winsor, a businessman, said: "One woman reporter actually climbed over the fence. I am phoned all day and evening by various reporters. "As my wife has a two-week-old baby, the situation is obviously causing us some distress.
“The press obviously continually question me about my relationship with Koo Stark. The press had also previously described the end of our relationship as me being left by Miss Stark only a few hours before our wedding, which is not quite true.
“Various reports in the last couple of days have misquoted me on other aspects. "I have no wish whatsoever to comment on any aspect of my four-year relationship between Koo Stark
and myself and Miss Stark and Prince Andrew. In a letter accompanying the statement, Mr Winsor’s solicitors said that if this harassment did not cease, he would be obliged to take action against the reporters and newspapers concerned.
Several national newspapers have quoted Mr Winsor as saying that he paid Koo Stark £12,500 ($NZ29,500) and gave her a car when their relationship ended.
Miss Stark’s father has said that he is “nauseated” by the way the British news media is treating his daughter. “I resent the fact that they call it soft porn,” Mr Wilbur Stark said of "Emily,” — a film Miss Stark, aged 25, made seven years ago.
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