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Okay she slept around a lot and the star witness may have been one of those she slept with. And yes, it is easy to imagine that she was willing to have sex with Kobe at some point in their relationship and that she went up to his room with the idea of having an affair with him (though probably with the idea of a romantic encounter instead of a quick and arguably degrading sex act). So certainly not a person of great moral standing nor an especially sympathetic figure. But still, i think the thrust of this case will be this: whether she objected to having sex with him at that point in time and/or particularly whether she consented to having that kind of rough sex with him - not whether she has had sex a lot or would likely have eventually consented to having sex with him. In other words, i think the focus from the prosecution's standpoint will be more on the physical abuse, the rough sex, than on what we traditionally think of as rape (ie, a completely unwilling/innocent woman being suddenly attacked out of the blue).