She is now 36, married, and goes by her husband’s name.
In a series of interviews, Radtke told Vulture the complete story of her alleged relationship with Ross. “Were his girlfriends 18 and over that I saw him with? Probably. “Jeff Ross was always with a young girl - that was his girlfriend ‘type,’” the comedian said. “Never one I have known to be underage, but alarmingly young-looking just the same.” Another comedian, who asked to remain anonymous, echoed Schumer’s observation. “Jeff is someone I consider a good friend, and I love him, but to be honest, he always has alarmingly young-looking girlfriends,” stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer told Vulture when asked about the allegations. Later, Caroline Rhea offered a shorter version: “Jeff Ross, you’re a staple on the roasting circuit and a predator at high-school dances.” “Jeff gets really hot girls, and I just … How do you get tens? Teens - I’m sorry, I read that wrong … You have the sex appeal of a gymnastics doctor, I just don’t understand,” comedian Nikki Glaser joked, alluding to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. During The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin in September 2019, two jokes were made about Ross having sex with underage girls. Over the years, some in the industry have been aware that Ross preferred to date younger women, albeit of seemingly legal age. More recently, Ross has served as creator and/or host of a handful of television series and specials, including Comedy Central’s Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, and the Netflix shows Bumping Mics With Jeff Ross & Dave Attell and Historical Roasts. He’s a longtime member of the Friars Club, a prestigious private club in New York founded in 1904 and best known for hosting annual celebrity roasts since the ’50s. I have never engaged in any sexual relationship with a minor.”Įver since the 1990s, Ross has been a prominent fixture in the comedy scene his friends include Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Chappelle, and Sarah Silverman.
“These disgusting allegations asserted against me are absolutely not true. After watching Radtke’s video, comedian Griffin Newman wrote on Twitter that, allegedly, an unnamed friend of his told him “about going on dates with Jeff Ross when she was 15/16.” Newman said he was unaware of the specifics but claimed the meetups occurred after the events described in Radtke’s video, arguing, “This is clearly a pattern of behavior.” By June 22, Ross posted a statement to Twitter denying the allegations. Within four days, the clips had more than half a million views combined. When someone alerted Gunalan to Radtke’s video, she ripped it from Facebook and posted it to Twitter in a thread of clips. “Brace yourself for the 20+ other prominent men in comedy women have been messaging each other about behind closed doors,” comedian Pallavi Gunalan tweeted. The video went mostly unnoticed until this June, when sexual-misconduct allegations against comedian Chris D’Elia surfaced on Twitter and sparked a broader conversation. She took these photos, and many others, with his Polaroid camera during their alleged relationship. In two other photos, allegedly taken in Ross’s Mercer Street apartment when he was away, Radtke wears a sleeveless red dress and Ross’s fedora. “Please note the hat in the photo that Jeff is wearing,” she says while presenting another photo of Ross at her 16th-birthday party he’s wearing a black fedora and throwing up peace signs, and Radtke stands behind him. “Please note where his hand is on my 15-year-old body,” she says while holding up a picture of herself and Ross at the Friars Club roast of Jerry Stiller in 1999, which shows his fingers snugly gripped around her waist just below her breast. In a video posted the next month, Radtke runs through her memories with Ross. In September 2019, a woman named Jessica Radtke created a public Facebook page called “Iwas15hewas33.” She had a singular purpose: to lay out evidence of her sexual relationship with Jeff Ross, a veteran stand-up comedian and mainstay of Comedy Central’s televised roasts, when she was a teenager.