Reminder that comedian Jeff Ross, who just hosted Netflix’s Roast of Tom Brady, has been credibly accused of r*ping an underage girl.

I can’t get over the fact that Kim Kardashian was booed at the Tom Brady roast and not Jeff Ross. So I’m reposting this exposé from 2020 to remind everyone what a creep he is.

Some excerpts from the article: (major trigger warning!)

Over the years, some in the industry have been aware that Ross preferred to date younger women, albeit of seemingly legal age. During The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin in September 2019, two jokes were made about Ross having sex with underage girls. “Jeff gets really hot girls, and I just … How do you get tens? Teens — I’m sorry, I read that wrong … You have the sex appeal of a gymnastics doctor, I just don’t understand,” comedian Nikki Glaser joked, alluding to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. Later, Caroline Rhea offered a shorter version: “Jeff Ross, you’re a staple on the roasting circuit and a predator at high-school dances.”

“Jeff is someone I consider a good friend, and I love him, but to be honest, he always has alarmingly young-looking girlfriends,” stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer told Vulture when asked about the allegations. “Never one I have known to be underage, but alarmingly young-looking just the same.”

Seven sources have confirmed to Vulture that they were aware of Radtke’s relationship with Ross at the time of the allegations or had been told about it in the years before Radtke’s Facebook posting. One of those sources, her father, says he approved of the alleged relationship at the time.

According to Radtke, she and Ross never went to the Cellar or for coffee that night. She met Ross outside his apartment and went into the building with him after he told her he had forgotten his credit card. “In the elevator, I just attacked him. I started trying to kiss him, and he goes ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa! There’s cameras!’ Not ‘You’re 15,’ and he points,” Radtke recalls.

More visits to Ross’s place followed, says Radtke, and the comedian always called for cars to send her home after they had sex. But the relationship progressed quickly, and he soon allowed her to spend the night and keep some things at his apartment, she recalls. She remembers Ross buying her Betsey Johnson dresses and lingerie, always in white, and taking explicit Polaroids of her. “He would have a preference that I shave my vagina completely off,” she says. “He was very mad whenever I wore red lipstick or really dark makeup. He didn’t like it if I looked too grown-up or too ‘whore-y.’ He liked that I was innocent.” Radtke says they had “a lot” of unprotected sex during their relationship.

Between 1999 and 2001, Radtke says Ross took various measures to keep their relationship under wraps, which her father confirmed. “When we were together, he’d say ‘You’ll destroy me if you say anything.’ He made sure to drill it into my head that I would destroy his life,” she alleges. “He asked me to walk on the other side of the street if we ever left home together. I didn’t want him to ever get into trouble.” She notes that he was “obsessed” with the story of Shoshanna Lonstein and Jerry Seinfeld. She familiarized herself with Seinfeld’s much-publicized four-year relationship with Lonstein in the ‘90s — which began when the comedian was 38 and Lonstein was a 17-year-old high-school student — as well as the book Lolita.

In December 2001, Ross took Radtke to the Rainbow Room for her 18th birthday. She was thrilled at the thought of not having to hide anymore. “It was this magical New York evening, and finally we’re at a point where the whole world can know that Jeff and I are together, and we’re in love, and they don’t need to know we’ve been together since I was 15,” she remembers thinking. But something happened soon after that changed her perspective. Later that month, after attending an MTV New Years special, Radtke alleges they went back to Ross’s apartment to begin packing up boxes. He was in the process of moving out of his Mercer Street rental into a new place he had bought. “I was packing his books, and I pull out a book. Polaroids fall out. I go, ‘Oh, these are my Polaroids,’” Radtke recalls thinking. But she says when she turned the photos over, they weren’t photos of her. “They were not women. They didn’t have any pubic hair,” Radtke says.

Radtke says she’s since been diagnosed with PTSD, and it took years to process that what she experienced during her teenage years wasn’t a romantic relationship but an inappropriate and exploitative one. “I thought I had stuffed it down deep enough and taken enough Klonopin, seen enough therapists, and smoked just enough medical marijuana to be okay. I thought, Okay, I’m okay,” she says. “I didn’t really know that it was that word — rape — until recently.”

Ross has admitted to a past sexual relationship with Radtke, but claims that it didn’t begin until she turned 18.