Married Premier League star Kolo Toure had alengthy affair with a
young model – after tricking her into believing he was a car salesman.
The Manchester City defender told pretty Kessel Kasuisyo his name was
Francois and showered her with expensive gifts he claimed he bought
with cash he made selling motors, she claims.
And in a desperate bid to keep his real identity secret, she says, the
£90,000-a -weekstar would sneak into her council flat wearing
sunglasses with a baseball cap pulled over his face.
Smitten Toure, 31, kept up the astonishing facade for two years.
He married the mother of his two children during the alleged affair
and even carried out a bizarre pretend proposal to Kessel, 22 –
getting down one one knee to give her a £1,000 diamond ring.
But the game was up for the Ivory Coast international – who portrays
himself as a devoted family man – when one of his mistress's pals
recognised him.
She told Kessel to Google her car salesman boyfriend's real name – and
the shocked beauty found Toure's wedding pictures online.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Kessel says: "Iam devastated. On some
of the wedding pictures he is crying but a few weeks before he was in
my bed.
"Two or three weeks after the wedding he was at mine. Around the time
he got married he called and said he was back in Africa and had just
sold two cars.
"I believed everything he said, I am hurt and confused by it all.
Maybe he wanted me to be a second wife. I just don't know. Everything
about his strange behaviour now all makes sense."
Kessel met Toure, whose brother Yaya also plays for City, outside the
Bijou nightclub in Manchester in September 2010. "He started chatting
me up and we swapped numbers," she says.
"Then he gave me a lift home. The next day he called me and we met at
a hotel. I told him he looked familiar and he just said maybe he looks
like somebody. He said he sold cars in Africa and did some charity
work."
At least Toure wasn't lying about his charity work as he is an
ambassador for Save The Children Foundation.
Kessel says: "He said he came from Ghana and was a student too. He
said his father was a minister. I am not a fan of football. I thought
maybe I had seen him on telly with his father."
He called her again within a fortnight and they met in the same hotel,
the Malmaison in Manchester. "He bought me some sexy white lingerie
and black shoes," says Kessel. "We started kissing and ended up doing
it."
Kessel claims their relationship was on and off until December of that year.
"We would go a week without seeing each other and then he would call
me. Sometimes we would meet twice in a week," she says. "I asked if he
had a girlfriend and he said no."
But devout Muslim Toure had been with fiancee Awo for at least nine
years. The couple live in Manchester with their daughterand son. When
Toure, who joined Man City for £16million from Arsenal suddenly
stopped calling Kessel in December 2010 she thought it was the end of
their brief fling.
But nine months later, after she had moved home, he called her again.
"He asked if I wanted to meet up and I told him I had my own flat
now," says Kessel. "He came around in a big car. He was wearing a cap
and big sunglasses.
"I told him it was my birthday and he asked me if I would wear some of
the stuff he bought me so I got dressed up and we ended up in the
bedroom.
"The next time I saw him he bought me a birthday present. He got me a
gold watch and some 18-carat diamond earrings.
"He used to call me constantly but from a private number so I couldn't
call back. I was suspicious, but he said he didn't want me to waste my
money calling.
"He once gave me £500 to send to my mother in Zimbabwe. Another time
he gave me £200 for food because my fridge was empty. I started to
question him about exactly what he did and he would say just selling
cars. Things were on and off. This January he asked me to be a
girlfriend but said he was going back to Africa to do business."
Kessel said Toure, banned last year for six months by the FA for
taking his wife's diet pills, broke off contact again between January
and May this year. When he got back with Kessel, she had no idea he
was weeks away from getting hitched. "He said he had something special
for me," she says. "He called me Princess and turned up with a £1,000
diamond and ruby ring.
"It wasn't an engagement ring but he said it was symbol of how he
felt. He went down onhis knee and said he was really serious about me.
"He really got to me. I started telling my friends about him. But
whenever I asked to take his picture he refused which I found a bit
odd." Yet Kessel managed to snap him off guard. In June, Toure went
back to Africa and married Awo at a mosque in the Ivorian capital
Abidjan with his brother Yaya as best man.
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