Masseur, 45, sexually assaulted a former actuality TV star, court docket hears

A masseur sexually assaulted a former reality TV star by touching her between the legs after showing her naked photos of his other celebrity clients during a session after her BBL surgery, a court has heard.

Marcelo Oliveira is accused of using his successful business ‘as cover’ to carry out sex attacks on ten female clients while giving them massages.

The 45-year-old, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, denies 22 counts of sexual assault and six other serious sexual offences and has gone on trial at Birmingham Crown Court.

Yesterday a TV star, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told how she was left ‘petrified’ when Oliveira groped her after she invited him to her home.

The woman, aged in her 40s, also said he was ‘grinding’ his penis against her head and had been ‘breathing in a sexual way’ during the alleged attack.

Giving evidence, she described how Oliveria was recommended to her for lymphatic drainage massages as a way to help her recover from cosmetic surgery.

When asked about the cost of the sessions she said it was agreed he would give the massage for free and she would then promote him on Instagram.

She said Oliveria, who describes himself as an aesthetic technician and has offices in Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and London, first came to her home prior to her having the surgery while her husband was there.

Asked about her first impressions of him, she said: ‘I was taken aback as to how big he was. He brought a massage table and I provided the towels. He had an iPad and he played relaxing music and also some cream gel. It was set up in the front room.

‘He was really chatty. He told me he was married and had two children and that he was a really good cook.’

The alleged victim told the court she could not remember if she had completely undressed and Oliveira had massaged her on her stomach.

The woman said the defendant had also used his iPad to take pictures of her and told her it was so he could have ‘before and after’ photos.

She added: ‘He also showed me lots of pictures of other women. There were other reality TV contestants, at least three were celebs. There were naked pictures.’

She said that some had undergone ‘Brazilian bum lift’ surgery and she could see bruising.

She added: ‘I was looking to see what could be achieved but it was really unprofessional.’

She arranged for Oliveira to come to her home again in June 2019 but had no knowledge of what the massage technique consisted of.

She said this time her husband was not at home, which Oliveira was aware of, and she had the same procedure with her lying naked on the massage table.

She told the jury: ‘I was laying face down and the massage started.’

Mr Antonie Muller, prosecuting, asked her: ‘Did he massage a part of your body he had never massaged before?’

The woman said: ‘Yes he started massaging my inner thigh, right at the top. I asked him why he was touching my thighs and he told me there were lymph nodes there.’

Mr Muller said: ‘Were you satisfied with that explanation?’

She said she was not and went on to explain how he sexually assaulted her by touching her vagina before coming up to the top part of the bed and massing her back ‘which he had never done before’.

Asked how long this had lasted, she said: ‘I could not give a time but it felt like an eternity.’

Mr Muller asked her whether she said anything to Oliveira and she replied: ‘I was petrified. I did not know whether it could get any worse. There was nothing I could do about it.’

She said she also became aware of his ‘sexual’ breathing and that the massage on her back was ‘not normal.’

She added that he was pressing his penis against her head and ‘grinding’. ‘Everything just stood still. It felt like a really long time,’ she explained.

The woman said Oliveira’s penis had been inside his clothing and that the session ended when an alarm went off on the defendant’s iPad.

She said Oliveira had asked her if she was okay because she had seemed ‘a bit unsure’.

The woman said she had then called her sister and her husband and told them she had been sexually assaulted and she blocked the defendant on Instagram.

The woman told the court she had not initially gone to the police because ‘I did not think I would be believed because it would have been my word against his.’

Oliveira is alleged to have carried out the assaults between March 2019 and July 2021.

Earlier in the trial, Mr Muller said the case is all about Oliveira ‘using the cover of massage to sexually assault and penetrate these 10 women’ by touching them with his penis as well as touching them between the legs and their breasts.

When quizzed, Oliveira said he gave lymphatic draining massages which moved fluids around the body for a cosmetic effect and denied touching the women in a sexual way.

The trial continues.