The woman who filed a police report accusing Cee Lo of
sexual battery secretly recorded a conversation with the singer, and
sources involved in the case tell TMZ ... Cee Lo admitted slipping her a
drug and then having sex with her -- something the singer denies.
The
woman has told cops ... Cee Lo took her to a downtown L.A. restaurant
in July. They had a drink and she says she remembers nothing after
that. The woman claims the next thing she knew she was lying naked in a
bed and Cee Lo was in the room.
We're told the woman, who does
not live in California, almost immediately went to her local law
enforcement agency and reported the incident. The matter was eventually
referred to the LAPD.
Sources tell us ... LAPD detectives had
the woman make a "pretext call" -- a call in which someone baits the
other party into acknowledging a crime or other misdeed -- and it was
recorded.
Sources involved in the case represent to TMZ ... Cee
Lo is on tape, repeatedly apologizing and referencing MDMA (Ecstasy) --
though he does not specifically say he put it in her drink. Sources say
Cee Lo told her he thought the drug would help them have an exciting
time together. For the record, MDMA generally does not render people
unconscious.
Sources connected with Cee Lo scoff at the claim,
saying if the tape contained such admissions Cee Lo would already be
under arrest.
As we first reported ... detectives went to the
restaurant last week to determine if employees saw anything unusual
between Cee Lo and the woman.
And we're told ... LAPD detectives
will refer the matter to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office when
the investigation is completed.
Sources connected to Cee Lo tell
us ... the accuser went to a civil lawyer BEFORE going to police and
demanded money from the singer to make the whole thing go away. Other
sources tell us a different story -- that her lawyer called Cee Lo's
manager to find out if the singer had any communicable diseases and
never made any money demands.
Our Cee Lo sources say the manager
shut the lawyer down and that's when she went to cops. Other sources
say she called the cops BEFORE her lawyer called Cee Lo's manager.
