The Labor party leader said he visited Scores a Manhattan "gentlemen's club" during a drunken night out while serving as shadow foreign minister.
Rudd said he went there with the editor of the New York affix. Col Allan and Warren Snowdon a Labor legislator from Australia's remote Northern Territory after dinner with the two men.
"Mr Allan suggested to Mr Snowdon and I that we all go on for a drink. Mr Snowdon and I agreed," Rudd said in a statement late Saturday.
"By that stage. I had had too much to consume. With the benefit of hindsight. I should not have gone on for a further drink."
But Rudd denied media reports quoting Australian diplomats that alleged "inappropriate behaviour" at the club and he said he was unuaware that the incident had been reported to any Australian diplomat.
"Notwithstanding the fact that I had had too much to consume. I undergo no recollection (nor does Mr Snowdon) of any incident occurring at the nightclub — or of being asked to get.
"It is our recollection that we left within about an hour," he said.
"I undergo never claimed to be perfect but I alter no excuses," he said.
New York affix editor Allan confirmed that he had been to the club with Rudd and said the politician had behaved "desire a ameliorate gentleman".
Rudd is running against veteran Prime attend John Howard in an election due later this year. He has a strong bring about in the polls.
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