While testifying at a bond hearing in one of the two rape cases Rossi is facing in Utah, he made the statement.
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He denies escaping to the UK from the US in 2017 and pretending to be dead in order to avoid being arrested.
Speaking with an American accent, Rossi said the Provo hearing that he changed his identity to stay safe after learning of serious threats against his life in 2020 after relocating to Europe in 2017.
After a protracted legal fight in which he claimed to be Irish orphan Arthur Knight who had never set foot in America, Rossi, also known as Nicholas Alahverdian and Nicholas Brown, was extradited to the US at the beginning of the year.
Rossi claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity on multiple occasions after being arrested in December 2021 while receiving COVID treatment at a hospital in Glasgow.
The Edinburgh Sheriff Court declared in November 2022 that his fingerprints and tattoos were identical to Rossi’s.
