Rick Pitino Admits To Paying For Mistress's Abortion

Former Knicks coach and current head coach of Big East powerhouse Louisville Rick Pitino is mired in an extortion scandal where it has come out that he had an affair inside a Kentucky restaurant and then paid for the woman to have an abortion. Karen Cunagin Sypher was indicted back in April of attempting to extort Pitino for $10 million. She had since responded to the charges with her own claims that the coach had raped her inside a restaurant and at a second location in 2003. Now the Louisville Courier-Journal obtained police interviews where Pitino admits to having sex with her at the restaurant after its employees had left; an assistant coach on-hand also told police that he heard "only the sounds of two people that seemed to be enjoying themselves during a sexual encounter." The Long Island native Pitino, a married father of five and Catholic who has a priest travel around with his team, then admitted to paying $3,000 for Sypher to have an abortion because she did not have health insurance, an anecdote unlikely to be brought up by the president in his current town hall meetings. Sypher pleaded not guilty to the extortion charges and prepares to go for trial. Sources say Pitino has no plans to take a leave of absence from Louisville.

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By Billy Parker in News on August 12, 2009 2:56 PM

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maryjr

Oh the hypocrisy!!!! Christianity breeding yet another degenerate.

airtech1

It's not Christianity, it's just Pitino-ism.

JacqueMehoff

he'll still have his supporters, I feel like going to a big east game and call him a BABY KILLER!!

felixthecat2

LOL, that's a plan. I might try it out. great idea.

felixthecat2

the same rick pitino who has a priest sit on his teams bench every game?

farking hypocrite,

felixthecat2

He is republican. hypocrite killed his own child .

Rocknrope

I read that the restaurant owner or manager gave the keys to Pitino so that he could lock up after bangin' the broad. Rick's got the juice! Lucky he didn't start kicking her unconcious at the bar afterwards.

"I didn't want to get spunk on your floor."

Aveais Essex

"A qualified doctor is not walking through that door, Karen. The Baby Bye-Bye Fairy is not walking through that door, and a time machine is not walking through that door. And if you expect them to walk through that door..."

Nyctini11

Since when do abortions cost $3k??

INTJ

Nyctini, it was probably a private abortion, not the assembly-line style clinic abortion. Private abortions are $2500-3000.

NannyState

And it may have included transportation to some other state, being as Kentuckians are a little touchy on the subject.

ANGRYGOD11

Child support until junior reaches 18 versus a $3000 abortion? A steal at thrice the price.

Rfive

She should have kept the kid and milked him for 18 years. Now she's got $3K and an extortion charge.

Darwin candidate here.

longacre

Who extorts a college basketball coach for $10 million? He makes a lot of money, but not that much. If she had asked for a million she might have gotten it and not ended up in jail.

NannyState

The master of extortion gets a taste of his own medicine...and some pussy to boot? Crybaby.

hotstepper

he looks pretty nerdfertile. sooooo, is excommunication in the pipeline for this fun-loving catholic boy?

Kojak

My friend, the pull out method works best when you don't ejaculate inside her BEFORE pulling out. k? Please try again. Or try birth control pills or the shot. Or tie ur tube.