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LOS ANGELES —  Prosecutors rested their domestic threats case against football legend Jim Brown on Thursday after airing lurid details of the Hall of Famer’s troubled marriage to model Monique Brown.

A clearly embarrassed detective told jurors that Monique Brown had said she allowed her husband to bring home another woman for sex. Los Angeles Police Det. Brian Gasparian recalled an interview during which Brown’s wife said she had agreed to the visits as a means of preserving the two-year marriage.

“Are you saying he brought home another woman for a threesome, for sexual relations?” Deputy City Atty. Grace Kim Lee asked.

“Yes,” the detective responded. “She said she was trying hard to keep their marriage.” Brown, 63, is facing misdemeanor charges of making terrorist threats and smashing the window of his wife’s car during a June 15 argument in their Hollywood Hills home.

Monique Brown, 25, originally told investigators that her husband had threatened her and had, on previous occasions, given her a black eye and choked her.

Brown’s wife has since recanted all those allegations and told a jury that she made them up to anger her husband. In testimony, Monique Brown said she suspected that her husband had a mistress and wanted to get back at him.

Although Monique Brown has asked repeatedly for charges to be dropped, her husband faces up to 18 months in jail and a $2,000 fine if convicted.

Also on Thursday, a prosecution expert on domestic abuse told jurors that it is not uncommon for women who are battered to later deny it.

Sandra Baca, a psychologist and director of the About Face Domestic Violence Project, conceded that she could not say whether Monique Brown was lying and said that it was possible for a woman to lie about abuse.