Graham Platner’s ex accuses him of rape

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Graham Platner’s ex Jenny Racicot accuses him of rape, says Maine Senate hopeful was ‘very drunk and wouldn’t take no for an answer’

By Ryan King, NY Post

Published July 6, 2026

WASHINGTON — An ex-girlfriend of scandal-scarred Graham Platner alleged that the Maine Senate hopeful broke into her home and raped her almost five years ago.

Maine resident Jenny Racicot came forward with the accusations to Politico and had correspondence with her therapist and several confidants, whom she told about the incident, as corroboration.

She recalled how Platner entered her unlocked home one night in 2021 — after she texted him that she didn’t want to see him and told him not to come over. She said Platner was “very drunk and wouldn’t take no for an answer” after telling him “No, don’t.”

“And, the look on his face and realizing what was happening, I just realized that, like, I am in a situation where there’s no consent here,” she explained to Politico of the alleged rape.

The two connected on Bumble in 2019 and had an on-again, off-again relationship until the alleged rape incident, according to Racicot’s telling. Under Maine law, the statute of limitations on rape is 20 years.

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Racicot gave a disturbing graphic account of how Platner entered her home, came up the stairs, and got on top of her while she was on a couch. Platner allegedly got physical with her, and she repeatedly rebuffed him.

Then, she claims to have broken away from him while he seemed “almost blackout drunk,” but Platner continued, and she retreated to her bedroom, according to her telling. In the bedroom, she alleged that Platner had nonconsensual sex and ejaculated into her while she was not on birth control.

After cleaning herself off, she claimed that Platner had fallen asleep.

Racicot was briefly featured in the bombshell New York Times story on Platner last month, but her sexual assault accusation against him was not mentioned in that piece. She shared the troubling rape accusation with the outlet off the record.

While the New York Times referenced an incident where Racicot alleged that Platner came over drunk, the outlet reported that she “declined to elaborate” on his “reckless” and “unsettling” behavior.

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“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” Racicot told the outlet. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”

Platner vehemently denied the accusations as “troubling, serious, and false.”

“Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false,” he added.

He indefinitely postponed key campaign events ahead of the bombshell story as rumors swirled that it was coming, and indicated that he is evaluating the viability of his campaign due to the accusations.

“Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins,” Platner announced in a video.

After the alleged rape, Racicot claimed that she contemplated the possibility of kicking Platner out of her house, but was afraid he would be a danger driving in his condition.

Weeks later, after she had her period and was sure she wasn’t pregnant, Racicot claims to have messaged Platner over Instagram, stressing that their encounter wasn’t consensual. She wasn’t able to recover those messages and claims she deleted all of her communications with Platner as part of an effort to move on.

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She did not file a police report.

But Racicot had emails with her therapist in which she recounted her communication with the media over the “sa/rape,” explaining that she wasn’t ready to go public with them, according to Politico.

She also pointed the outlet to a man she dated after Platner, to whom she confided details of her experience with the future Maine Senate hopeful. The unnamed man told an identical account of her accusations to the outlet.

In Facebook messages to a female acquaintance from 2023, she described how she “ended up in a bad situation with” Platner, who was “consensually careless” and “doesn’t listen to you when drunk.”

Publicly, Platner repeatedly insisted that he had no more skeletons in his closet and vehemently denied accusations that he engaged in egregious physical behavior towards women. Racicot said his denial troubled her.

“I know that he is capable of putting his hands on women,” she told Politico. “So I don’t believe that to be the truth.”

Platner had infamously suggested on Reddit in 2013 that women who get raped while being drunk should “just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-d up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”

Fifield recounted a time when Platner allegedly told her that he’d rape a home intruder.

“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she recalled to the New York Times.

The Post has reached out to Racicot and Platner’s campaign for comment.