{"id":326237,"date":"2025-12-02T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:19:07","slug":"how-kolo-toure-allegedly-used-a-false-identity-to-date-a-young-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326237\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kolo Tour\u00e9 allegedly used a false identity to date a young woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/How-Kolo-Tour-allegedly-used-a-false-identity-to-date-a-young-woman-2011896?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/91973387.295.jpg\" alt=\"Toure  had a secret affair with the young girl\" title=\"Toure  had a secret affair with the young girl\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>Toure  had a secret affair with the young girl<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">In 2012, it was revealed that former Manchester City starm Kolo Tour\u00e9 had been carrying on a secret affair with 22-year-old student Kessel Kasuisyo, all while pretending to be a Ghanaian car salesman named \u201cFrancois.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal legend kept his alleged double life hidden from everyone, including his wife, using disguises, private numbers, and lavish gifts to maintain the deception.<\/p>\n<p>To Kessel, he wasn\u2019t a Manchester City defender earning \u00a390,000 a week. He wasn\u2019t a married man. And he wasn\u2019t even named Kolo. He introduced himself as \u201cFrancois,\u201d a Ghanaian car salesman who had moved to Manchester as a student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him he looked familiar, but he just said maybe he looks like somebody. He said he sold cars in Africa and did some charity work,\u201d Kessel later recalled. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Why-Enzo-Fernandez-begged-Benfica-to-sell-him-to-Chelsea-2011849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Enzo Fernandez begged Benfica to sell him to Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They met outside a nightclub in 2010. Days later, they were at a hotel, where he brought her lingerie, black heels, and gifts he claimed came from \u201csuccessful car deals.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, whenever he visited her council flat, he arrived in disguise, baseball cap pulled low, sunglasses on, like a man hiding from the world.<\/p>\n<p>As the affair deepened, Tour\u00e9 even staged a mock proposal, kneeling with a diamond and ruby ring. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me Princess and said he was really serious about me,\u201d Kessel told the Sunday Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>But while Kessel believed she was in a committed relationship, the truth was devastating. During one of his supposed business trips to Africa, Tour\u00e9 was actually in the Ivory Coast, marrying his real partner, Awo.<\/p>\n<p>The lies finally crumbled when a friend recognised him and urged her to search his name online. What she found were his wedding photos, Tour\u00e9 in a white suit, crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am devastated. On some of the wedding pictures, he is crying, but a few weeks before, he was in my bed,\u201d Kessel said. <\/p>\n<p>FKA\/JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toure had a secret affair with the young girl In 2012, it was revealed that former Manchester City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-326237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}