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Pippa Middleton’s father-in-law David Matthews faces SECOND rape allegation as another ‘victim’ comes forward
PIPPA Middleton’s father-in-law faces a fresh police quiz after a second woman came forward to accuse him of rape.
The woman is understood to have claimed that David Matthews, 74, forced her to have sex with him in the 1980s.
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Detectives from South Yorkshire Police are investigating.
Multi-millionaire Mr Matthews was last week accused by French prosecutors over claims he raped a minor.
The tycoon — dad to Pippa’s husband James, 42, and I’m A Celeb star Spencer, 29 — was accused of two offences between 1998 and 1999 by a woman now in her 30s.
One is said to have happened on the Caribbean island of St Barts, where Mr Matthews owns the £5,000-a-night Eden Rock Hotel. The second allegedly took place in Paris.
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The British woman is understood to have recently alleged that she was raped in the UK.
how Mr Matthews had been arrested at a Paris airport last week.
He was charged with the rape of a minor.
Under French law suspects are charged when they are brought before a court but the allegations are still being investigated.
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A spokesman for Mr Matthews said of the French probe: “David Matthews categorically denies the allegation and unequivocally contests the untrue and scandalous accusation.”
James Matthews married Pippa, 34 — the Duchess of Cambridge’s sister — last summer.
South Yorkshire Police refused to comment.