Girl band pop star 'infected partners with HIV'
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- April 15, 2009
Source: The Daily Telegraph
A STUNNING pop star who has sold more than five million records with a girl group called No Angels has been accused of deliberately infecting several sexual partners with the HIV virus.
Nadja Benaissa, who has performed concerts around the world with the band, is alleged to have had unprotected sex with three people without telling them that she was HIV positive.
At least one man has since found he has the virus.
Locked up HIV star faces 10 years' jail
Benaissa, 26, a mother of one, became a celebrity overnight when she and four other young women won the first German series of the talent television show Popstars in 2000.
They formed No Angels, who were said to have been modelled on the Spice Girls, and went on to have a string of No 1 hits. Their popularity was such that in 2002, Ms Benaissa spoke publicly of her worries that the group may have become too famous. “If you see No Angels in every newspaper, on every television station and hear them on every radio station, the people will at some point get sick and tired of No Angels,” she said.
The group split in December 2003 before four of the original five members, including Benaissa, reformed in 2007. They were selected to represent Germany at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with their single Disappear but finished last.
Benaissa, who was born in Germany and has a Moroccan father, was arrested in Frankfurt on Saturday evening shortly before she was due to give a solo performance. She was remanded in custody after a judge ruled that there was a danger she might repeat her alleged offence.
The public prosecutor's office in the western town of Darmstadt said that the singer was being held because of the “urgent suspicion that the accused had unprotected sexual intercourse with three people in the years 2004 and 2006 without telling them beforehand that she was HIV positive".
If found guilty she could face up to 10 years in prison.
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