Former Arsenal and Manchester City defender, Kolo Toure, faced accusations of cheating on his then-fiancée, Awo, with a UK-based Zimbabwean model named Kessel Kasuisyo.
In a 2012 interview with Mirror, Kessel claimed that she had a two-year fling with the Ivorian footballer without knowing his real identity. According to Kessel, during their affair, Toure introduced himself as ‘Francios’ and portrayed himself as a Ghanaian car salesman operating in Africa.
Throughout the duration of their relationship, which lasted from September 2010 to December 2012, Toure allegedly concealed his true identity. He avoided taking pictures with Kessel and used his Islamic heritage as a pretext to prevent her from meeting his parents.
Kessel only discovered Toure’s true identity when a friend suggested that she search for the player’s information online after seeing his picture. To her surprise, she found out that Toure was already married to Awo.
“I am devastated. On some of the wedding pictures he is crying but a few weeks before he was in my bed.
“Two or three weeks after the wedding he was at mine. Around the time he got married, he called and said he was back in Africa and had just sold two cars.
“I believed everything he said, I am hurt and confused by it all. Maybe he wanted me to be a second wife. I just don’t know. Everything about his strange behaviour now all makes sense.”
“Two or three weeks after the wedding he was at mine. Around the time he got married, he called and said he was back in Africa and had just sold two cars.
“I believed everything he said, I am hurt and confused by it all. Maybe he wanted me to be a second wife. I just don’t know. Everything about his strange behaviour now all makes sense.”
Kessel told Mirror that they met at a nightclub in Manchester in September 2010 and they began talking before they exchanged numbers.
“He started chatting me up and we swapped numbers,” she said.
“Then he gave me a lift home. The next day he called me and we met at a hotel. I told him he looked familiar and he just said maybe he looks like somebody. He said he sold cars in Africa and did some charity work.”
“He said he came from Ghana and was a student too. He said his father was a minister. I am not a fan of football. I thought maybe I had seen him on telly with his father,” he added.
She claimed that during that time, Toure sent him expensive gifts like lingerie and even a £1,000 ring as a sign of his devotion to her.
Toure would vanish and then emerge nine months later, she said, adding that he always had a cap and sunglasses hiding his face when he visited her. She went on to describe their on-and-off connection.
“He asked if I wanted to meet up and I told him I had my own flat now. He came around in a big car. He was wearing a cap and big sunglasses.
“I told him it was my birthday and he asked me if I would wear some of the stuff he bought me so I got dressed up and we ended up in the bedroom.
“The next time I saw him he bought me a birthday present. He got me a gold watch and some 18-carat diamond earrings.
Kessel said Toure used to call her through a private number with the excuse that he does not want her to waste her money in reaching him.
“He used to call me constantly but from a private number so I couldn’t call back. I was suspicious, but he said he didn’t want me to waste my money calling.
“He once gave me £500 to send to my mother in Zimbabwe. Another time he gave me £200 for food because my fridge was empty. I started to question him about exactly what he did and he would say just selling cars. Things were on and off.”
Kolo Toure never reacted to the allegation that popped up after his marriage in 2012.
They tied the knot after nine years of dating and currently have two children, a daughter, and a son.