Boxer denies all allegations
Former two-time world heavyweight champion George Foreman, 73, has been charged with harassment and sexual assault. The lawsuits are filed by two unnamed complainants who allege that Foreman harassed them in the 1970s.
This Wednesday, the women filed separate lawsuits under the pseudonyms Gwen H. and Denise F. in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Foreman himself is referred to in lawsuits as a DOE 1, but is described as a professional boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to become world heavyweight champion before losing the title to Muhammad Ali in 1974, writes ESPN.
Both women, now in their early 60s, said they first met Foreman as children because their fathers were also boxers. Denise, a Los Angeles resident, alleged in her lawsuit that Foreman courted her when she was 8 and had sex with her when she was 15 (before the legal age of consent), on one occasion in a Sun hotel room. Francisco.
Gwen, a Nevada resident, said she met Foreman when she was 9 and that he sexually abused and raped her when she was 15 and 16, including in a Beverly Hills apartment.
Foreman himself called the allegations false and unfounded. “Over the past six months, two women have tried to extort millions of dollars from me and my family,” the boxer said. “I don’t get into fights, but I don’t run away from them either.”
The lawsuits were filed as a result of a California law that went into effect in 2020 that extends the statute of limitations that previously prevented some victims of childhood sexual abuse from filing civil lawsuits.
Source: Sportarena
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