In a series of interviews, Jessica Radtke told Vulture the complete story of her alleged relationship with Jeff Ross, which seven sources confirmed
Photo: Deun Ivory In September 2019, a woman named Jessica Radtke created a public Facebook page called “Iwas15hewas33.” She had a singular purpose: to lay out evidence of her sexual relationship with Jeff Ross, a veteran stand-up comedian and mainstay of Comedy Central’s televised roasts, when she was a teenager. In a video posted the next month, Radtke runs through her memories with Ross.
In a series of interviews, Radtke told Vulture the complete story of her alleged relationship with Ross. She is now 36, married, and goes by her husband’s name. It wasn’t until recently, she says, that she came to terms with what she says Ross did to her when she was 15 and what continued to happen until she was 18.
Comedy was a lifeline. Jessica moved to New York with her father after he got a job offer in the spring of 1998, and the first thing she asked for upon landing was to go to a comedy club. Several clubs she and her father tried to enter that night turned them away. They eventually found one willing to let a 14-year-old attend performances: Barry Katz’s Boston Comedy Club on West 3rd Street, just down the street from the Comedy Cellar.
On the night of July 8, 1999, as she was walking up the stairs to her home in Queens, Ross called Jessica’s prepaid cell phone . He asked her, she recalls, to meet him outside his apartment in Manhattan, on Mercer near 8th Street. “He goes, ‘Is it okay if I ask your dad if it’s okay if you come to the city tonight? It’d be really cool. Maybe we could go to the [Comedy] Cellar or we could go somewhere and have a coffee,’” Radtke says. “I said, ‘Yeah, I’d love that.
Between 1999 and 2001, Radtke says Ross took various measures to keep their relationship under wraps, which her father confirmed. “When we were together, he’d say ‘You’ll destroy me if you say anything.’ He made sure to drill it into my head that I would destroy his life,” she alleges. “He asked me to walk on the other side of the street if we ever left home together. I didn’t want him to ever get into trouble.
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