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University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino admitted to police that he did have sexual intercourse with Karen Cunagin Sypher back on August 1, 2003. The incident took place at Porcini restaurant in Lousville with Vinnie Tatum close enough to hear the entire encouter.
Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with Karen Sypher (Cunagin, at the time of the relationship) at a Louisville restaurant where he’d been drinking on Aug. 1, 2003.
Details from the police report were published in the Louisville Courier-Journel today. 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 learned later that [Pitino aide Vinnie] 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.
Naturally, Cunagin-Sypher called Pitino two weeks later claiming she was pregnant. Pitino arranged to meet her at the condo of the team strength coach, Tim Sypher.
Pitino said he told her they should meet somewhere discreetly to discuss the matter. He said he suggested the condo of the team’s strength coach, Tim Sypher, whom she’d not yet met, but later married. She met Tim Sypher and followed him to the condo.
But Pitino’s admission to Louisville police gets jucier and even more scandalous:
He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports The Courier-Journal obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act.
Sypher is the woman that as 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.