A woman said Friday that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax had raped her nearly two decades earlier.
Lawyers for the woman, Meredith Watson, made the accusation in a statement that also called on Fairfax to resign from office.
Fairfax was recently accused of sexual assault by another woman, California university professor Vanessa Tyson.
Fairfax's office did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for a response to the accusation. But his spokeswoman, Lauren Burke, told The Washington Post that "we're calling for an investigation on all of these matters." She said Fairfax would have further response later.
Watson's statement claims she was raped by Fairfax in a "premeditated and aggressive" attack while they were both students at Duke University. The two were friends, but had never been romantically involved, according to the statement.
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