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Headline:

Frolics with WAGs were just innocent fun, says billionaire

Synopsis:

The Texan billionaire who is bank-rolling a multimillion-dollar cricket tournament in Antigua said yesterday that he had not realised that the women with whom he was filmed cavorting on Sunday were related to the England players.

Allen Stanford told The Times last night that the women had not even told him they were English. He denied asking the pregnant wife of the England wicketkeeper to sit on his lap.

Pictures of him laughing and joking with the women as their husbands played against Middlesex in the opening match of the Stanford Super Series Twenty20 competition caused embarrassment to the England camp. They also led to Mr Stanford apologising to Matt Prior, the wicketkeeper, and Kevin Pietersen, the England captain.

Publish date:

31 October 2008

Author:

Patrick Kidd

Source:

The Times

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