This week, Greg Kelly, son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and co-host of "Good Day New York," was accused of—but not charged with—raping an unidentified young woman in her Manhattan office. It's now been revealed that the rape accuser, a 30-year-old law firm employee who the Post describes as "an aspiring model and actress," also has family ties to the NYPD—the Post reports that her brother is a crime-scene investigator for the NYPD who previously worked in the Internal Affairs Bureau. And it seems she was inspired to report the alleged rape because of Kelly's famous dad encouraging New Yorkers to come forward to report all crimes: “Her boyfriend was telling her, ‘You see, even his father is telling people to report crime,’” a source told DNAinfo.
The woman met Kelly, who is single, on the street in early October, and the two exchanged numbers and arranged to meet for drinks on October 8th. After drinks, sources say they went to her office because her boyfriend was home. After that night, they stayed in touch, and sources have said that Kelly has text messages from the woman of a "flirtatious" nature. The source says they also exchanged texts such as, "‘It was good time? Was it as nice for you? Do you want to do it again?’” It later came out that the woman had an abortion after her encounter with Kelly, although it's unclear whether he knew about it.
Investigators for DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office allegedly believe that she is not credible and that the sex was consensual: “It looks like they’re going to just kick it around until it’s absolutely dead...It’s ‘he said, she said,’ ” a source told the Post. “Everybody [the woman and Kelly] was a happy camper until the boyfriend found out.” They believe her boyfriend grew suspicious because she refused to have sex with him—she eventually confessed that she couldn’t sleep with him because she had undergone an abortion, which allegedly made the boyfriend furious. He even confronted Ray Kelly at a police event and told him his son “ruined my girlfriend’s life.”
Retired sex crimes prosecutor Linda A. Fairstein told the Times that rape accusations that involve alcohol are "as common as they are difficult to prove." Another source told the Post that Ray Kelly has seen the bar bill from that night, and has privately said it was “laughably low.” Fairstein added that she's spoken to sources involved in the investigation: "This woman doesn't come close to establishing her physical helplessness... I haven't heard anybody establish the elements of a crime."
