Advocate Barbie: I would have killed for Dirk

Former advocate Cezanne Visser, better known as Advocate Barbie, on Wednesday conceded that she would probably have committed murder if her ex-lover Dirk Prinsloo had asked her to do so.

Visser, who has denied guilt to 14 sex charges relating to children and women, claimed Prinsloo had controlled her to such an extent that she would probably have done anything for him, including murder.

Prinsloo disappeared while on a court-sanctioned business trip to Russia, leaving his former mistress to face the music alone.

Asked about the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl Visser and Prinsloo had fetched from a children’s home in 2002, Visser denied that she had indecently assaulted the child.

She said the child’s evidence in this regard was a lie, but conceded that she and Prinsloo had sex in front of the child, and had demonstrated a vibrator to the girl ‘because she had asked about it”.

Visser conceded that Prinsloo had not ‘forced” her to perform oral sex on him in front of another young girl from the children’s home.

She claimed he used to grab her by the hair and forced her head down, and she complied because he expected this of her.

Visser said she could still not understand or explain why she acted the way she did when she was with Prinsloo.

‘What I’m trying to say is that Dirk was my god. Dirk was almighty.

Dirk was in control and I slavishly followed him,” she said.

‘… I was his slave and I carried out his orders — I didn’t think I as Cezanne was untouchable, but he made me believe that he was almighty and in control and would protect me.

‘— I believed in him like a Christian believes in God. Today, I don’t approve of it but that’s how I felt then.”

Visser said she was finally able to break away from Prinsloo in 2005, when she had a support structure and people who believed in her.

The final straw came when she found a long black hair in their bed, which showed her that Prinsloo had no plans to stop his relationships with other women, including prostitutes.

‘My love for Dirk had several facets. There was the absolute fear of the man, but also the dependence on him and the absolute power he had over me,” Visser testified.

‘That’s why I stayed with him.” — Sapa