 Alex Chapman (left) says he was going through a divorce when his lawyer Jack King started pressuring him to have sex with his wife, Lori Douglas (right). (Ross Romaniuk and Marcel Cretain, QMI Agency photos)
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WINNIPEG - A prominent Winnipeg judge and her lawyer husband are at the centre of a lurid sex scandal, accused of harassing a black client to have sex with her.
"It made me sick to my stomach, like I'm living in a country with no integrity," Alex Chapman said Tuesday.
Chapman says he was going through a messy divorce in April 2003 when his lawyer, Jack King, started pressuring him to have sex with his wife, Lori Douglas.
At the time, both King and Douglas were lawyers with Thompson, Dorfman, Sweatman. Today, Douglas is an associate chief judge in the family division of the Court of Queen's Bench.
Chapman alleges King broached the subject over lunch, urging Chapman to visit a website called darkcavern.com, a website devoted to linking up white women with black men for sex.
"Over the next month, he tortured me to visit the website and have sex with his wife," Chapman said.
Chapman said King took advantage of his weakened psychological state. At the time, he said he was having immigration troubles, was the victim of identity theft and had an ailing father in Trinidad.
"I was scared he would botch my case," Chapman said. "I played along. I didn't have money to pay another lawyer."
An ad posted on darkcavern.com at the time and purported to have been written by King reads: "Make her a slut for total black domination, from public display to large group f---ed by gangs of young black men."
The ad featured several nude pictures of Douglas.
King e-mailed him numerous nude pictures of Douglas, including domination poses and sex toys and oral sex acts, Chapman said.
Chapman said he met King and Douglas a number of times for lunch, during which King purposely left the two alone.
An e-mail dated May 27, 2003, purported to be written by King, reads: "Alex, I think she certainly likes you ... What do you think of the pics?"
Chapman said he put King off until the conclusion of his divorce case, then hired a lawyer "to make him go away."
Chapman was paid $25,000 and signed a confidentiality agreement which included a promise to destroy all correspondence and pictures he received from King.
But Chapman didn't destroy the pictures and e-mails and in July filed a complaint with the Manitoba Law Society and Canadian Judicial Council.
"I was living in fear for seven years," said Chapman, who continues to see a psychologist.
