Australian driver Mawson denies allegation of raping Michael Schumacher’s nurse
Australian motorsport driver Joey Mawson, a friend of Mick Schumacher (pictured together years ago) has been named as the individual accused of sexually assaulting one of Michael Schumacher’s nurses at the Formula 1 icon’s family home in Switzerland.
Mawson, 29, has vehemently denied the charges.
The allegations, first surfacing this week in Swiss media, center on an incident prosecutors claim occurred in November 2019. According to court filings, a friend of Schumacher’s son, Mick, allegedly raped the nurse in an upstairs bedroom at the family’s lakeside mansion in Gland, near Lake Geneva.
The story broke via Swiss outlet 24heures, which reported that the unnamed Australian suspect was slated to face trial this week. However, he failed to appear, and his whereabouts remain unknown, prompting the court to adjourn proceedings to a later date.
The Sun has since identified Mawson as the accused, drawing from a “one-and-a-half-page indictment” issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the District of La Côte. The trial has now been postponed until further notice.
Mawson, a former protégé in European single-seater racing who once shared the track with Mick Schumacher, returned to Australia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He clinched the Australian Drivers’ Championship twice and was eyeing a move to the high-octane Supercars series before a suspension for an anti-doping violation derailed his plans.
According to the indictment detailed by 24heures, the alleged assault followed a night of heavy drinking at the Schumacher residence. The nurse, who had passed out from intoxication, was reportedly carried to an upstairs bedroom, where the attack is said to have taken place.
The victim, a woman in her 30s and part of the live-in medical team caring for Schumacher since his life-altering 2013 skiing accident, has denied any prior consensual relationship with Mawson. The racer reportedly claimed they had kissed during a previous evening out, but she refutes this entirely.
Lawyers for both sides—Patrick Michod representing the victim and Luc Vaney for Mawson—declined to comment when approached by 24heures.
Importantly, no members of the Schumacher family have been implicated in the case.
Schumacher, the seven-time world champion now 56, has remained out of the public eye for over a decade following the severe brain injuries he sustained in a fall while skiing in the French Alps. The accident left him bedridden and under round-the-clock care.