BREAKING: Lindsey Graham Paid Off 3 Male Escorts, Including One Who Was 17 at the Time — Explosive Documentary Alleges

A explosive documentary put out by the Young Turks and Swamp Watch Studios alleges that the late senator Lindsey Graham paid off several male escorts for sex, one of whom was 17 at the time.

“My name is Kelvin, and I had sex with Lindsey Graham when I was 17,” one of the escorts says in the clip from The CLOSETocracy, shared by The Young Turks on Thursday.

The film features “firsthand accounts from three men who allege paid sexual encounters with the late Sen. Lindsey Graham” and “examines the contrast between his alleged private conduct and his longstanding political opposition to LGBTQ+ rights,” according to a press release put out by The Young Turks.

“These are serious claims that deserve public scrutiny,” Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur said in the statement. TYT believes in giving audiences access to important stories and the opportunity to examine the reporting for themselves. We’re making this documentary available so viewers can hear these accounts firsthand.”

Kelvin said he turned to escort work partly because his family was so poor that he couldn’t even afford clothes.

He said that Graham contacted him through an escort site, claiming Kelvin had come “recommended.”

“He wanted to be a little submissive to me and wanted me to be really direct and firm with him and explore kinky side to him that he was interested in exploring, just role play. The whole conversation was friendly, kind,” Kelvin said.

Graham allegedly invited Kelvin, then just 17, to John McCain’s ranch in Sedona, Arizona, in July 2001, where the South Carolina senator was staying as a guest.

Kelvin claimed he was given “specific instructions” to enter the home via a specific entrance and should “just walk in.”

Kelvin said he entered an odd space which he described as “very scary.”

“As I entered the house, I could tell this part of the house was under construction. So there was open beams, there’s black tarp, black sheeting on the left, there’s a coat hanger that was like, it was like a couple of nails on the right-hand side. He instructed me to remove my jacket.

“It looked nothing like a house under construction it loooked staged like that on purpose.

“It looked as though it was made or set up to be a film set, specifically for what looked like very extreme porn. Something that would be dark porn. Like something that was just really scary.”

Kelvin claimed he immediately started giving Graham oral sex. “That was kind of my way of becoming comfortable with the situation,” Kelvin said,  before the Senator “slowed things down.”

“He let it happen for about 15, 20 seconds” Kelvin claimed. As they separated, Graham “got a good look at me.”

“That was when he was a bit startled, almost terrified,” Kelvin said.

Graham then accused Kelvin of being under 18, which the escort repeatedly denied.

Graham was “very accusatory,” Kelvin claimed before he said “let’s continue this” and pointed him to another room. “I want you to start undressing yourself, there’s a mattress on the floor.”

Kelvin said Graham insisted the younger man remain standing and repeat his age and name.

“I just need you to tell me how old you are,” Graham allegedly told him.

Kelvin asked, “what for?” and said he thought Graham said, “For the camera,” before denying he was recording at all.

“Being a powerless 17-year-old I was like, ‘What is going on here? Are you recording?’ But I couldn’t make out a camera, I couldn’t see anything. So I didn’t know what he was doing… I did see a blinking red light, so it gave me a satisfaction that this is a camera, I am being recorded.”

The escort claims the senator told him to stop looking in the direction of the light, and became “more dominant, more aggressive.”

The young escort claims as the encounter continued, he told Graham that “God thinks it’s OK for you to be gay,” which prompted frustration from Graham.

“And then it got to be too much for him, so he just shook it off,” he said.

A second man who identified himself as Cory claimed he was picked up by a black SUV and driven to the Washington Plaza Hotel for an overnight with a client that had a “big, grandiose Southern accent.”

The man said he “really liked to be degraded, the more degrading the better,” according to Cory, who noted, “before I could even say, ‘Let’s do this,’ he’s already touching on me.”

A month or two later, Cory says in the documentary that he has the TV on and realizes, “It’s the guy from the hotel. It [says] ‘Lindsey Graham’ on the bottom.”

“I am Jesse, and I had sex with Lindsey Graham,” a third man says in the 33-minute documentary.

He described a poor upbringing but said, “Once we got cable, I knew who Senator Graham was, because his election ads were on TV consistently.”

A friend suggested Jesse work as an escort to make cash, and when he moved to Washington, D.C., said he met Graham at the Beacon Hotel.

Graham did not give his real name, Jesse claimed.

Graham, who was first elected to the Senate in 2002, died on July 11. His cause of death was listed as aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

His sister, Darline Graham, was appointed to take his place. President Donald Trump campaigned for her on Wednesday night ahead of a midterm battle with Democratic rival Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician.

At one point in the documentary, the filmmakers approach Darline Graham and ask her about the allegations that her brother paid gay escorts for sex.

“I’m not even gonna entertain that question,” she says in the film.

A spokeswoman for the Grahams did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Mediaite.

At the end of the film, Jesse delivers a final blow: “Your gas prices are high because of policies that people like Sen. Graham were supporting while they were paying people like me for sex. Does that make you mad? Does that make America mad?”

This is a developing story and has been updated.

Watch the film above via The Young Turks/YouTube.

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