Brazilian Influencer Humiliated on Camera in Shocking Rape Trial Video
The look of horror and disbelief on the face of 23-year-old Mariana Ferrer in a video of her rape trial is unmistakable. The event promoter, who accused influential Brazilian businessman Andre Aranha, 42, of drugging and raping her, can scarcely keep her composure as Aranha’s lawyer verbally abuses her, as seen on the trial video which was published Tuesday by The Intercept Brasil.
Ferrer says Aranha, who has close ties to Brazilian soccer players, hired her in 2018 to promote the tony beach report Florianopolis in southern Brazil and then drugged and raped her. Aranha denies the rape charges and insisted Ferrer consented to sex.
During the trial, which took place by video link earlier this year, Aranha’s high-profile lawyer Gaston da Rosa Filho aggressively suggests Ferrer’s provocative social media photos prove she was “asking for” Aranha’s sexual advances. “I pray to God my son never meets a woman like you,” he tells Ferrer.