WAKAYAMA (TR) – The 30-year-old widow of Kosuke Nozaki, the rich businessman famously dubbed the “Don Juan of Kishu,” has abruptly suspended her social media exercise after making sensational claims about her high-profile homicide trial earlier this month.
Saki Sudo, who was acquitted in each her district and excessive court docket trials over the 2018 deadly methamphetamine (kakuseizai) poisoning of her husband, has drawn vital consideration on X (previously Twitter).
Despite her authorized victories, the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office has appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, making certain her court docket battle continues.
“I’m the real deal”
An account believed to belong to Sudo, launched in October 2025, had been laying naked the behind-the-scenes actuality of her interrogations and her candid ideas on the trial. The profile biography bluntly said, “People say I’m fake, but I’m the real deal,” and featured a photograph of her official court docket judgment doc as its header.
In a put up dated April 8, Sudo coldly analyzed how her polarizing persona might have influenced her destiny within the courtroom.
“Just between us, I’m well aware that I’m the type of person women hate,” she wrote on April 8. “So the moment I found out in the first lay judge trial that the presiding judge and four out of six lay judges were women, I thought I was doomed.”
“So many slutty women”
Sudo’s account additionally shared photographs of letters she obtained whereas held within the detention middle and disclosed stunning anecdotes about her interactions together with her protection crew, sparking widespread on-line debate.
The posts are defiant and cocky. On April 6, she posted, “The prosecutor has appealed. Lol.”
Sudo additionally described her interrogation following her arrest. She claimed that she was “tied to a chair with ropes for hours, yelled at in Wakayama dialect like, ‘You killed him, didn’t you?’”
She additionally says the desk was kicked. “This is an interrogation method unthinkable in the Reiwa Era,” she wrote.
Sudo additionally mentioned her public notion, together with a remark from her lawyer: “Saki, you’re the type of person women dislike, so I was afraid it might affect the trial.”
“I thought that was true,” she wrote on April 8. “I guess what he meant was that my lifestyle is disliked by serious people. But then, during the questioning of a witness, that lawyer called her a ‘slut like Saki.’ Lol. I thought, ‘Am I really hated?’”
Later, she added a correction: “I wrote that my lawyer called me a slut, but it wasn’t about me, it was about someone else. There are so many slutty women mentioned, so I got confused. I’m sorry.”
Halting posts
The subsequent day, nonetheless, she introduced she is going to halt additional posts.
“My lawyer warned me out of concern, so I’m taking an indefinite break,” she wrote. “(I never thought I’d be saying something like an idol, lol.) I don’t know if my statements will influence the Supreme Court, but I’ve been told to refrain from making any rash statements until the trial is over.”
She stated she solely criticized the strategies of the police, prosecutors and media.
“I didn’t incite the court at all,” she wrote. “In fact, I’m grateful that they made an appropriate judgment in that situation.”
Meth poisoning
Nozaki, who notoriously bragged of spending billions of yen courting 1000’s of ladies, died of acute methamphetamine poisoning at his dwelling in Wakayama Prefecture in May 2018.
Sudo stands accused of administering the deadly dose, a declare she has denied in each trials.
While decrease courts discovered inadequate proof to convict Sudo of the homicide, prosecutors are persevering with their battle on the nation’s prime court docket.