Two more Nels in the coffin

01 October 2010 - 00:49 By GABISILE NDEBELE
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Andre Nel is fast becoming South Africa's very own Tiger Woods.

After The Times yesterday exposed his affair with 34-year-old Londoner Jelena Kultiasova, two more women have come forward with salacious details of love trysts they claimed to have had with the former Proteas cricketer.

The women - one from Durban, the other from London - gave The Times detailed communications between them and the 33-year-old fast bowler.

Several cellphone messages, e-mails and pornographic pictures, allegedly sent by Nel to one of the women, attest to the intimate details of their sexcapades with the cricketer.

Yesterday The Times exposed Nel's two- week affair with Kultiasova which, she claims, took place last month while he was in London playing county cricket.

An angry Kultiasova claimed he did not tell her that he was married - and that she found out about his six-year marriage to Deanne Weitz on the internet.

On Wednesday, Nel admitted to the affair only after being confronted with photographs of him with Kultiasova. He finally confessed to Kultiasova being a "friend with benefits ... we kissed twice and only had sex two or three times possibly".

Nel yesterday refused to comment on the claims of the other two women.

Both women, whose names and personal details are known to The Times but have been withheld at their request, claim that Nel "told us the same lies" he told Kultiasova.

The second of his alleged lovers, encouraged by Kultiasova's revelations, called in to a radio show yesterday morning and then contacted The Times to spill the beans.

The 29-year-old Durban woman said she met Nel on a Friday night at a Harvey Wallbangers Club in October 2008, while he was with a cricketing friend.

"That night we went to chill at his friend's place in Umhlanga, where we talked all night, though nothing physical happened," the woman said.

"The next day, we chatted via SMS, then later that night he came over to my place where we had dinner and he stayed over."

According to the Durbanite, the affair lasted for about five months and ended in March last year before Nel left for London.

"I asked him that night at the club if he was married because I knew he was married from reading about it in the papers," the woman said.

''He said he was divorced and that his wife had refused to come to an agreement with him, and that they were not living together. He bought her an apartment in Sandton.

"I never thought this could be a lie, he seemed really genuine," she said.

Soon after the Durban affair ended, Nel allegedly started another affair, this time with a personal assistant working in London who has asked to be referred to only by her first name, Juliette.

Her story mirrors those of Kultiasova and the Durban woman.

Juliette claims that she met Nel in April 2009 at The Wellingtons Club, in north London.

"The night I met Andre he was out with his cricket friends and I was with mine for a friend's birthday,'' she told The Times.

"Andre grinned at me and I smiled back. We spent the rest of the night together talking, dancing, drinking, cuddling and then we kissed. He was so sweet and said he was divorced with no children. There was definitely no wedding ring," she said.

"I went back with him to his place where we cuddled all night but we did not have sex. In the morning he gave me money for a taxi back to my car. He asked me for my phone number and I gave it to him," she said.

Like Kultiasova, Juliette has several pictures of herself with Nel - some too explicit to describe or publish.

In one he is licking her thigh. In another, Nel is naked with his private parts exposed.

"Eventually we slept together and, yes, it was wonderful and felt so special,'' Juliette said.

"I stayed with him in hotels a couple of times but most of the time when he wasn't touring he would stay at my house.''

She said the affair ended in September last year when Nel started "acting suspicious" by not taking her calls and not e-mailing her for days.

She forgave him when he told her that he was with his "parents who were still close to his ex-wife".

But then Juliette discovered a voice-mail from Nel's Durban lover on his phone.

She returned the call, "suspecting it was his wife", only to find out that it was her South African counterpart.

The two women, who said they were "angry and felt played", decided to contact Nel's wife, whom they found on Facebook.

Juliette said: "I first phoned Deanne and she was very upset but she said: 'Oh, not you again. Do you know that I was in London and I found your hair all over my bed?' Then she hung up."

The Durban woman also contacted Weitz, who is said to have responded by Facebook.

"Yes, I received your message ... not sure what you want from me, confirmation that you have ruined my life ... well here it is!

"While you seem to be so concerned about your 5 month 'fling' with my husband, never mind the 11 years you have just ruined for me.

''Don't say you are sorry, cos you don't know me nor care about me, so you are not sorry. So rest assured ... your message has been delivered, could you kindly leave me alone now so I can pick up the pieces," Weitz reportedly said.

When contacted yesterday, Nel hung up after saying: "I will not comment on anything".

  • The Times has pictures of Andre Nel with Juliette, the woman he was involded with in London, in the print edition but the owner of the photos has not given permission for them to be used online.
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