Assault, rape, adultery, abortion, extortion. Does it get any better? Well for University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino it cant get any worse than it already is. Pitino is accused of assault and rape of Karen Sypher. but according to a witness Vinnie Tatum (Pitino's aide) it was consensual sex.
Pitino admitted to police that he did have sexual intercourse with Karen Sypher back on August 1, 2003. The incident took place at Porcini restaurant in Louisville with Vinnie Tatum close enough to hear the entire encounter.
Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with Karen Sypher at a Louisville restaurant where he’d been drinking on Aug. 1, 2003.
The sex took place in the restaurant the two had ran into each other hours before.
Pitino said Sypher left the restaurant and returned at about closing time. He said that after the restaurant closed and the last employees and owner Tim Coury had left, Sypher “started coming on to him and that they had sex,” according to Abbott’s report. Pitino said he later learned that Tatum was still there.
Tatum told the FBI
that he had lain down and couldn’t see what happened but that he heard what sounded like consensual sex, Abbott wrote in a report. Sypher called Pitino two weeks later claiming she was pregnant. He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports.
Sypher is the woman that has been accused of blackmailing Pitino for money in exchange for her silence about the sexual relations and alleged rape by Pitino. She has been indicted by a Grand Jury on charges to extort money from Pitino.
