Ben Roethlisberger's Accuser Said She Feared His Temper

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.,None — There was Ben Roethlisberger, asking a girl what her drink tastes like, doling out high-fives, posing and punching his first in the air, flashing a huge grin for the camera.

Then, about 12 hours later, there was the 20-year-old college student he had partied with, calmly telling police how the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback followed her into a night club bathroom, ignored her repeated protests that "I really don't think this is OK," and sexually assaulted her.

The contrasting images were part of the most extensive look yet into a star athlete gone wild, even if his late-night carousing in a quaint college town didn't result in criminal charges.

Sixty audio and video clips from the investigation were released Wednesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but the ones that stood out were two interviews with the accuser, who hasn't spoken publicly, and less than a minute of shaky footage that shows Roethlisberger partying at the Capital City Club, where the accusation was made early March 5.

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The accuser said she felt powerless to stop a short-tempered Roethlisberger from having sex with her even though she told him over and over again to stop.

"I'm a little girl and he's a big boy," she told investigators.

The local prosecutor determined there wasn't enough evidence to warrant criminal charges, and he said the woman ultimately asked him not to prosecute the quarterback. Even so, the NFL suspended Roethlisberger for the first six games of the upcoming season.

Roethlisberger Accuser - Blurred Out

The accuser was interviewed twice by police -- the first time shortly after she made the accusation, and a second time later that day at the police station.

The woman spoke with Milledgeville officer Jason Lopez in the first interview. Her words were slurred and she even said at one point, "Obviously, I'm drunk." An audio recording of that interview was made.

The next afternoon, the student said in a videotaped session that Roethlisberger appeared to have "a short temper." She also said she didn't think it would do any good to fight back against a much larger person -- the quarterback is listed at 6-foot-5 and weighs 241 pounds, while his accuser told officers she was 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 145 pounds.

"I didn't want, obviously, him to hurt me any more than he was going to," she said.

She talked about how the night started and when her group of friends first ran into the two-time Super Bowl champion.

"We went and saw our friends and then we turned around and my friend was like, 'Oh my gosh that's Ben Roethlisberger.' So we were like, 'Oh, cool.' We took pictures with him. He seemed really nice, at first. We were just hanging out at Velvet. All these people kept coming up to him and I was like 'Gosh, that must be really annoying.' So my friend and I even went away. We weren't standing around him the whole time."

Eventually, the accuser said, Roethlisberger and his entourage left The Velvet Elvis. The accuser said she and her friends also left to visit a friend who was working at a nearby bar called The Brick. At that point, she said, they ran into Roethlisberger again.

"We were all just sitting up at the bar. He was just talking to us. It was completely casual and nothing sexual at all until my friend...We had name tags on because it was my friend's birthday and she had this like silly sex party or whatever. We had name tags that said like 'Hello My Name Is,' 'Status, something' and she made mine, I was wearing it, it said 'D.T.F' which is like 'Down To F***' or whatever. Which was just silly obviously. And I guess he saw that and asked me about it."

Ben Roethlisberger - Inside Night Club 1

"I wasn't forward in any way," she said. "I wasn't like, 'Oh my gosh, have sex with me because you're an NFL superstar."'

"He said, 'I'm not down to f*** but I'm into f****** girls,' or something like that, that was very crude," she said.

The accuser said after the conversation, Roethlisberger and his entourage left and went to the Capital City Club. The accuser said she and her friends went there, too.

"The entire night they never like told us where they were going or anything. It just like, happened. We just happened to be at the same place as they were."

After taking a round of shots purchased by Roethlisberger, the accuser said one of Roethlisberger's body guards led her down a hallway.

"It was really weird how he did it. He was like, 'Hey, come here.' And I was like, 'OK.' I didn't know what he was doing. I don't even know why I went. That was stupid. We went back there. He had me sit at this stool and like 30 seconds later Ben comes back there, his penis was already out of his pants. And I was like, 'No, this is not right, I don't agree with this.' I got up and went to the first door that I saw which happened to be a bathroom. He followed me in and shut the door. That's when he proceeded to have sex with me and the whole time I was like, 'No, we really don't need to do this. This isn't OK. We shouldn't be doing this.' Then he just got up and left and I walked out. And that's when my friends ran up to me and we left."

The accuser said at that point she and her friends went to the nearest police car they saw.

"It was kind of like they [Roethlisberger and his entourage] had planned it. Because the entire night we were asking him 'Why are you here?' And he said, 'Oh, just trying to change it up.' And we were like OK, that's weird. You're in a college town and you're 28 years old. It's weird."

In the video, the woman's face was blurred. She was wearing a navy blue T-shirt, jeans and had her blonde hair pulled back.

In Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger took part in a Steelers practice session on Wednesday but didn't talk with the media. He was escorted off the field by a team spokesman.

The quarterback also is being sued in Nevada by a woman who said he sexually assaulted her there in 2008. There were no charges brought in that case.

His attorney has denied he did anything wrong in Georgia, where Roethlisberger owns a lake house near Milledgeville. But NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the quarterback deserved to be suspended for his petulant antics; the ban could be reduced to four games if he shows a commitment to improving his behavior off the field.

The accuser's written statements to investigators had already been released. Still, the videos provided the most extensive account yet of what she said happened.

Several of Roethlisberger's teammates said they didn't even know the DVDs were being released.

"It's not even something that's being discussed," backup quarterback Charlie Batch said. "It has nothing to do with football."

Offensive lineman Willie Colon -- the only teammate with Roethlisberger at the Georgia nightclub -- said he hasn't spoken with the quarterback about the case since the recordings came out.

"All I can do is just deal with whatever comes along with it," he said. "I just want to let everybody know I have a family and I'm a good man and I spoke freely in my interview" with Georgia investigators.

Colon's hour-long interview with a GBI agent was among the videos released. He shed little light on the case, saying he didn't even know anything had occurred until he saw police at the club. He wasn't with Roethlisberger afterward, leaving in a separate car, though he was concerned about what impact the accusations would have.

"I'm a player, too," Colon told the officer in his interview. "I can't get in trouble. We've got to be more cautious about putting (ourselves) in situations where people can harm us."

Colon talked with Channel 11 News following Steelers practice on Wednesday.

"I had no idea my comments or interview process would be released to the public, [but] it is what it is," said Colon.

However, Colon said the release of the tapes didn't concern him.

"I'm concerned about being a Pittsburgh Steeler," said Colon, "and being a good citizen."

As for the team getting ready for a new season, Colon said it's no longer a distraction and that he's moved on and is focused on football.

"Obviously we have a public image to upkeep. That's our goal from here on out," said Colon.

The 49-second video of Roethlisberger at the club was shot by a member of his entourage. It shows Roethlisberger wearing a black Nike baseball cap and black T-shirt with a devil's face on it. Most of what he said was drowned out by loud music in the club. Colon was also in the video.

Nicole Biancofiore, a friend of the accuser, also said she saw Roethlisberger flash his temper when another friend hesitated to accept drinks from him.

"She said, 'I don't think we should.' I turned back around and he got really angry. He said, 'Forget it. You're done. That's it,"' Biancofiore told investigators.

Ed Joyner, a Pennsylvania state trooper who's a friend of Roethlisberger and sometimes works as his personal assistant, said people were mobbing the quarterback all night.

"If he starts talking, I mean, he's like a magnet. They come and they come hard," Joyner told police. "These girls, I mean, they were all just one right after another. And then there was guys, too. I mean the guys were pretty heavy, too."

Joyner also told local police that he was worried his department would find out he was there.

Previous Stories: June 4, 2010: Roethlisberger Breaks Silence, Will 'Be Smarter When It Comes To Certain Things' June 2, 2010: Golfer Natalie Gulbis Talks Ex-Boyfriend Roethlisberger Before Oakmont Practice June 2, 2010: Slimmer Roethlisberger Returns To Practice; Teammates 'Excited To Move Forward' May 26, 2010: Some Taxpayers Want Ex-Roethlisberger Bodyguard To Face Consequences May 26, 2010: Goodell: Roethlisberger Review Coming Within Week

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