An aide to former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos told an undercover reporter that Simon Cowell was gay, her trial heard today.
The singer’s manager and agent, Gareth Varey, made the extraordinary allegation as he negotiated a £3million fee for her to star in a fictitious Hollywood blockbuster, Southwark Crown Court was told.
Undercover Sun reporter Mazher Mahmood posed as a Bollywood film producer offering Contostavlos a role in a British Slumdog Millionaire-style movie.
An aide to former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos, pictured, told an undercover reporter that Simon Cowell was gay, her trial heard yesterday
The singer is alleged to have arranged to supply the fake movie mogul with cocaine worth £820 in a bid to secure the role, saying she was desperate to leave The X Factor.
The jury was told that after a drunken night out at a nightclub with Contostavlos in May last year, Mr Mahmood asked Mr Varey about Cowell.
Mr Mahmood said: ‘Is he gay?’
Mr Varey answered: ‘Yes.’
Mr Mahmood asked: ‘Have you slept with him?’
Mr Varey answered ‘No’, adding ‘I know people who have.’
Cowell has since had a baby with his partner Lauren Silverman.
Earlier the court heard how Contostavlos arranged for 13.9g of cocaine to be taken to Mr Mahmood’s hotel.
But days after the drugs were delivered by a friend, Contostavlos realised she had been duped in a tabloid newspaper sting.
It was claimed the N-Dubz star was ‘lured’ into a trap after her drinks were spiked at top hotels in Las Vegas and Mayfair and dinners at celebrity favourite Nobu restaurant where she and Mr Varey were wooed by the fake producer.
Jeremy Dein, QC, defending, accused Mr Mahmood of plying her with drink, encouraging her to be a drug dealer and then threatening that Keira Knightley would get the part if she didn’t supply the cocaine .
He asked Mr Mahmood: ‘You spiked her drinks to get her to incriminate herself, didn’t you?’
The journalist replied: ‘That’s absolutely outrageous. No, that’s complete and utter nonsense.’
Contostavlos was flown first class with Mr Varey and a friend to stay at the luxury Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas for two nights.
But jurors heard that she insisted staying another night and called paparazzi to take snaps of her in a bikini by the pool to show off her new tattoo.
As part of the elaborate ruse, Mr Mahmood pretended to take calls from Cameron Diaz and Keira Knightley.
Contostavlos is accused of getting her rapper friend Michael Coombs to take ‘white sweets’- her alleged code for cocaine- to Mr Mahmood at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
Coombs, 36, whose rapper name is Mike GLC, has already pleaded guilty to supplying drugs
The singer was dropped as an X Factor judge just two weeks before her arrest in June last year.
Contostavlos denies being involved in the supply of class A drugs.
The trial continues.
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