The murder trial of Cash App founder Bob Lee continued Thursday in San Francisco with the long-awaited appearance on the stand by Bob Lee's glamorous, party-loving sister, who is accused of murder.
Hazar Eliasnia, 38, was sworn in shortly after 2:30 p.m. The socialite wore a $5,500 powder blue patterned Valentino Garavani dress with oversized orange lenses. She wore white sunglasses and carried a $1,000 Valentino clutch. After the show.
“When did you know your brother killed Bob Lee?'' a prosecutor asked Nima Momeni, 40, the brother charged in the fatal stabbing in April 2023, at his door.
“My brother didn't kill Bob,” she replied, according to Jonah Owen Lamb of the San Francisco Standard.
Prosecutors then investigated text messages Eliasnia allegedly sent to Momeni, which appeared to indicate tensions between the brothers, Lam added.
Among the messages read out in court by prosecutors was one that read, “You're scary,” which she claimed she didn't remember sending.
KTVU reported that Lee, a wealthy socialite, also admitted to using cocaine, LSD, the date rape drug GHB, and nitrous oxide on April 3, the day before Lee was murdered. It is said that
Cross-examination regarding the text messages continued, with Eliasnia claiming that she was high when she sent a series of messages at 7:38 a.m. on April 5, the morning after Lee was killed, Lamb reported. .
Eliasnia testified that day that she had been continuously taking Whip-It, which she had received from Lee's alleged drug dealer, Jeremy Boivin, Lamb added.
“Yes, he bought me a tank of nitrous oxide,” she testified about Biobin, saying that Biobin came to her home shortly after Lee and Momeni left on April 4.
She claimed on the stand that Biobin had sexually abused her in the past, but that they had not had sex in the past year and a half.
When prosecutors asked why she had invited her brother to her home after she had told him she had sexually assaulted him, the defense objected, prompting both attorneys to appear in court, Lamb wrote. There is.
When the interrogation resumed, they asked straight questions. “Why did you invite Mr. Boivin to your apartment 10 hours after you said you had been sexually assaulted?”
She explained that it was due to the hardship and abuse she experienced when she was younger, and that she could not believe that anyone would actually harm her.
“Sometimes I go back to my abuser,” she admitted.
Prosecutors then asked about messages Eliasnia sent to Momeni, in which they appeared to be trying to find out what happened to Lee.
After a friend told him the brothers were the last to see the tech founder alive, she said she texted her brother to “get to the bottom of it and find out what happened to Bob.” spoke.
Prosecutors said he then sent Momeni a text message saying, “I'll ask you or the police will,'' but Eliasnia claimed he didn't remember sending the message, Lamb reported. .
“I spoke to your lawyer today about your overdose and attempted rape case,” Momeni replies, “LOL, you idiot, Bob never touched me and no one ever did. ” he answered.
She has since said she was not sexually assaulted, but claims she doesn't want to talk about what happened, insisting the messages were “not really me talking” and saying that during the exchange she sent multiple messages. He repeated his claim that he was under the influence of drugs.
“I don't normally threaten to call the police on my brother. I end up exaggerating and being dramatic, so I might have said this, it's possible,” Lamb wrote.
Prosecutors noted that the brothers did not contact each other for three days after this exchange, indicating an anomaly in their communication patterns over the previous months.
Eliasnia, who is said to have been involved in an affair with murdered billionaire Lee, is at the center of an explosive trial in which her brother is accused of stabbing a technology executive to death to protect his sister's honor. are.
Lee and Eliasnia, the wife of a prominent plastic surgeon, share a common taste for San Francisco's underground, glamorous party scene known as “The Lifestyle,” notorious for free-flowing drugs and casual sex. It is said that he was doing so.
On the night of the murder, Eliasnia and Lee were at one of the loud gatherings, leading Momeni to believe that Lee had drugged and raped her sister, prosecutors said earlier Monday. argued in the statement.
This prompted Momeni to seek revenge on his sister's behalf, with prosecutors claiming he violently stabbed the Silicon Valley tycoon in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023.
This prompted Momeni to seek revenge on his sister's behalf, with prosecutors claiming he violently stabbed the Silicon Valley tycoon in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023.
That night, 43-year-old Lee was seen leaving his home in Eliasnia's Tony Millennium Towers with Momeni at 2:30 a.m., shortly after he was seen bleeding and pleading for help in the center of San Francisco. It was discovered in the department.
Momeni has maintained his innocence, and his lawyers say he killed Lee in self-defense and say the tech founder was high on drugs and tried to cut him down.
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