By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-13 22:02:05 | Updated at 2024-12-24 12:17:43
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A woman who was sexually abused by a notorious fugitive who allegedly faked his own death has broken her silence.
Nicholas Rossi, 37, who also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, which is his legal surname, and an 'alias' Arthur Knight, is facing two rape charges dating back to 2008.
Now another woman Mary Grebinski, 36, has spoken out about how Rossi sexually abused her when she was a college student in Ohio in 2008.
In her first-ever television interview, which is scheduled to air at 9pm tonight on NBC Dateline special 'The Man of Many Faces', she told reporter Andrea Canning six haunting words: 'I should have been the last one'.
In exclusive clip shared with DailyMail.com, Grebrinski became emotional as she continued: 'There shouldn't have been Utah women - it should have ended with me'.
Rossi allegedly fled to Scotland to avoid rape charges and faked his own death. He was extradited back to the US following a lengthy process in early 2022.
He is accused of raping a 21-year-old woman and his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend in Utah. He also faces charges of sexual assault in Rhode Island, Ohio and Massachusetts. He pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges in October 2024.
Mary Grebinski, 34, was sexually abused by Rossi in 2008. She told reporter Andrea Canning during the Dateline NBC segment that airs Friday: 'I should have been the last one'
Nicholas Rossi pictured after his extradition hearing in Scotland. Scottish minister signed an extradition order to enable him to be extradited to the United States
In the Dateline segment, Grebinski is pictured standing outside the Scott M. Matheson courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, ready to see her attacker face the judge.
She told Canning: 'He's in custody. I've waited for years to see him in custody... so it is very sweet for me.'
Grebinski was 19 when she met Rossi on MySpace in 2008. The two exchanged text messages while both attending Sinclair College in Ohio.
Though she had never met Rossi in-person, he approached her on campus and insisted on walking her to class.
She said he then forced himself on her in a vacant stairwell.
Shaken, Grebinski immediately filed a report with campus police. When Rossi was interviewed about the assault, he made it seem as if she had initiated it.
She later told Dayton Daily News that Rossi pushed her up against a wall, started kissing her, groped her, exposed his genitals and then sexually pleasured himself.
A year later he was found guilty and convicted of sexual imposition, public indecency, and required to register as a sex offender.
The evidence gathered in Grebinski's case helped prosecutors investigate other reports, including the alleged rape that took place in Utah in September 2008.
Rossi filed two civil suits against Grebinski in 2009 and 2013 for slander and defamation that he claimed caused him 'humiliation and emotional stress. He lost.
Nicholas Rossi, aka 'the man of many faces', pictured in a mugshot
Rossi is pictured departing Edinburgh Sheriff Court after his extradition hearing in July 2023 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Another mugshot of Rossi from the Pawtuck Police Department
Rossi pictured with his wife that he wed while in the UK
Once Rossi was back in the US, he attended a series of court hearings and once asked to be addressed as Arthur Knight.
He was wheelchair bound and donned an oxygen mask for the proceedings.
Rossi testified that he discovered there were credible threats against his life in 2020 that prompted him to move overseas, the Associated Press reported.
He claimed the threats were related to his work to reform the Rhode Island’s Department of Children, Youth and Families.
During the testimony, he alleged that he suffered abuse and negligence in the Department of Children Youth and Families, Rhode Island's social service system, when he was a child in foster care.
Last October, a judge ruled that prosecutors had presented adequate evidence for him to be tried for first-degree rape, days after another Utah judge came to the same conclusion for the second rape charge.
He is currently being held in a Utah prison with his bail set at $250,000.
His attorney asked for a lower bond because his client was unable to pay it but Utah County prosecutors maintained that he was a flight risk, ksl.com reported.
Grebinski speaking with Dateline NBC Andrea Canning outside Salt Lake City Utah courthouse
Grebinski was one of the victims to come forward in the case of Nicholas Rossi
Sinclair College in Ohio is where Rossi met Grebinski
Rossi, who has been dubbed 'the man of many faces', is accused of carrying out a wild scheme to take on a new identity while a worldwide manhunt was underway.
He allegedly claimed he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, before an obituary ran two months later. He then ended up in the UK under the alias Arthur Brown.
Once there, he reportedly professed he was an Irish orphan and spoke in a faux British accent.
He also adopted different looks. At times he appeared clean-shaven and boyish. At others he had a bead, glasses and dark cloak and hat. On other occasions he has appeared in a wheelchair with an oxygen mask.
In July, Peacock produced a docuseries on the imposter titled: 'Rossi: A Fugitive Faking Death.'
Rossi who allegedly used up to sixteen different names, was described as a 'master of disguise, and deception,' by a reporter in docuseries, as per Oxygen.
During his time in the UK, Rossi met a woman by the name of Miranda Knight who would later become his wife. He took her surname, calling himself Arthur Knight.
In 2021, the couple moved to Glasgow. When Rossi contracted Covid he was hospitalized at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
While there, his distinctive tattoos and fingerprints matched the American man being hunted by police - but was reported dead.
Alleged rapist Nicholas Rossi was wheeled into court in Utah where he was ordered to stand trial for a 2008 rape charge in Utah
Rossi told the authorities he was a UK citizen and that his name was Arthur Knight.
He claimed he had never been to the United States and that it was a case of mistaken identity.
He said in court that he did not know how he got his tattoos and did not have them when he went into a COVID coma.
He also claimed someone was trying to frame him, as per Datyon Daily News.
Later he was described as 'dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative,' the BBC reported.
The Dateline NBC segment also features exclusive interviews with Prosecutor David O. Leavitt, Michael Alahverdian and State Police Detective Conor O’Donnell.
