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Rumiantsev faces several serious charges, including assault, actual bodily harm, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation, and obstructing justice. He has pleaded not guilty to all allegations. When contacted by CNN, Rumiantsev’s legal team declined to provide any comments.
In court on Wednesday, the alleged victim testified that an intervention by Trump played a crucial role in preventing Rumiantsev from potentially killing her, as reported by British media outlets.
“He helped save my life. That call felt like a divine intervention at that moment,” she stated, according to the British newspaper Metro.
Rumiantsev’s defense argued in court that the allegations were entirely fabricated, asserting that he had restrained the woman because she was behaving in an “angry and violent” manner, as reported by Metro.
According to PA Media, Trump, who is now 19 years old, contacted the police after a conversation with the woman, whose identity remains protected for legal reasons. This call took place on January 18, 2025.
“I’m calling from the US, I just got a call from a girl… she’s getting beat up,” Trump said, according to the transcript of his call with police.
“This was happening about eight minutes ago. I just figured out how to, how to call someone. It’s really an emergency.”
Police investigating the allegations later asked Trump if he would be willing to provide a witness statement. Trump wrote in an email to police that what he saw was “very brief indeed but indeed prevalent,” the court was told on Thursday.
“I didn’t expect her to pick up due to the time difference,” Trump wrote in an email sent May 2, 2025.
“The phone was picked up,” he added.
“The individual who answered was a shirtless man with darkish hair. This view lasted maybe one second… then the view flipped to the victim,” said Trump, who added that the woman had told him “that this individual was giving her difficulty for a long time”.
Police replied to Trump’s email, jurors were told, but did not receive a response to that or follow-up correspondence sent on July 1.
