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PHILADELPHIA, May 26 (UPI) -- An accused rapist's ex-fiancee testified in his trial in Philadelphia that he claimed to be a CIA agent and talked to his gun.
Jeffrey Marsalis is charged with sexually assaulting seven women he met on Match.com. Prosecutors say he drugged them and then had sex, while Marsalis claims the encounters were all consensual.
Jessika Rovell told a jury Friday she met Marsalis while she was a law student. She said that at the time Marsalis claimed to be an emergency room resident at three hospitals in the city, although he later said that was part of his CIA cover.
Rovell said Marsalis owned a 9 mm Beretta he nicknamed Priscilla and would "talk to it as if he were Elvis." She said he had ID cards and other items to back up his stories, but she later learned none of them were true.
Marsalis said he had gone through astronaut training so he would be employable once he was through with being a CIA assassin. He also told her a helicopter was on standby for him in case he needed to travel to the White House in a hurry.
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