a 92-page essay narrating his relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as they worked together on Assange’s autobiography in 2011. Assange had signed a £600,000 contract with Canongate to deliver the book. It was also sold to the New York publishing house Knopf, as well as a “slew” of other publishers around the world.
The two women who accused him of assault had both had consensual sex with Assange – one alleged he had been rough with her, and had removed a condom without her knowledge, an act known as “stealthing”, which is criminalised in most Australian jurisdictions, as well as in Sweden. The other woman said she had consensual sex with Assange and then woke up to find he’d been having sex with her again while she was asleep, also without using a condom.
Assange’s treatment of the people around him, in O’Hagan’s telling, is arrogant and almost laughably rude – he talks over people constantly and eats like a “pig”, picking up his plate and licking it when he’s finished eating.As O’Hagan notes, this does not make Assange Josef Mengele. But the essay provides a damning character portrait of the WikiLeaks freedom fighter.
O’Hagan, early in his dealing with Assange, asked him if he had a working title for the book. “He said, to laughter, ‘Yes.When O’Hagan, Assange and his girlfriend/PA Harrison went to a cafe, Assange had become distracted by some “young girls” walking past.
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