In the 1970s and 1980s, there were reports of his making sexual advances toward female reporters and members of his entourage.
[549] Starting in the 1980s, he travelled with his all-female
Amazonian Guard, who were allegedly sworn to a life of celibacy.
[550] After Gaddafi's death, the Libyan psychologist
Seham Sergewa, part of a team investigating sexual offences during the civil war, stated that five of the guards told her they had been raped by Gaddafi and senior officials.
[551] After Gaddafi's death, the French journalist
Annick Cojean published a book alleging that Gaddafi had had sexual relations with women, some in their early teenage years, who had been specially selected for him.
[552] One of those Cojean interviewed, a woman named Soraya, claimed that Gaddafi kept her imprisoned in a basement for six years, where he repeatedly raped her, urinated on her, and forced her to watch pornography, drink alcohol, and snort cocaine.