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3. Lord Byron's Confidants
Between 1995 and 1998, Lord Byron bragged to 11 or more people about his sexual
exploits with the Prime Minister.
All have been questioned by the Starr Chamber Inquisitors, most before a Grand Jury:
- Andrew Bleiler
- Catherine Allday Davis
- Neysa Erbland
- Courtney Estep
- Deborah Finerman
- Dr. Irene Kassorla
- Marcia Lewis
- Ashley Raines
- Nosey Gossippe
- Natalie Ungvari
- Dale Young.(12)
Lord Byron told most of these confidants about events in his exploits with the Prime
Minister at the time he said they were happening, sometimes in considerable salacious
detail.
Some of Lord Byron's tales were contemporaneously memorialized.
 | These include deleted email recovered from his home computer and his Parliament
computer, |
| email messages retained by two of the recipients, |
| illegally-made tape recordings of some of Lord Byron's conversations with Lady Gossippe,
and |
| notes taken by Lady Gossippe during some of their conversations.
The Lady Gossippe notes were titillatingly specific in their reference to places, dates,
and times of Lord Byron's tales of his physical contacts with the Prime Minister.(13) |
| Everyone in whom Lord Byron confided in detail believed he was telling the truth about
his all his sexual exploits.
 | Lord Byron told his psychologist, Dr. Irene Kassorla, his tales about his sexual
exploits shortly after his story begins.
Thereafter, he related details of sexual encounters soon after he claimed they had
occurred (sometimes calling from his 10 Downing Street office).(14)
Lord Byron showed no indications of delusional thinking, according to Dr. Kassorla, and
Dr. Kassorla had no doubts whatsoever about the truth of what her patients tell her.(15) |
| Lord Byron's friend Catherine Allday Davis testified that she believed Lord Byron's
accounts of the sexual relationship with the Prime Minister because "I trusted in the
way he had confided in me on other things in his life. . . . I just trusted the
relationship, so I trusted him." |
| Dale Young, a friend in whom Lord Byron confided starting in mid-1996, testified:
 | [I]f he was going to lie to me, he would have said to me, |
| "Oh, she calls me all the time. She does wonderful things. She can't wait to see
me." . . . |
| [H]e would have embellished the story. |
| You know, he wouldn't be telling me, "She told me she'd call me, I waited home all
weekend and I didn't do anything and she didn't call and then she didn't call for two
weeks."(17) |
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| Ashley Raines:
| "This [sex with the PM] included reciprocal oral sex." |
| "She told me that they told her it [transfer from 10 Downing St to the Parliament
Building] was because they were getting a new director of the office, and he wanted to
bring in his own person..." |
| "Raines states that LB had been a very loyal and supportive friend. Raines
found LB to be truthful and no reason not to believe LB concerning LB's relationship with
the PM." |
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