Rufus Wainwright: 'I Thought I Had Hiv After Rape'.... Gay folk singer Rufus Wainwright feared he had contracted Hiv when he was raped as a teenager.The singer/songwriter was attacked by a man he picked up in a bar in London's Hyde Park at the age of 14. He claims he survived the ordeal by pretending to have an epileptic fit.And the 33-year-old was convinced he picked up the deadly virus.He says, "I was pretty much convinced I was Hiv positive. Every zit was Kaposi's sarcoma. If I got a sore throat I had a year to live. I never got tested. But I didn't get aids, which I might have otherwise, and I did end up writing songs."

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