George Foreman accused of child sexual abuse by former babysitter for boxing icon
George Foreman has been accused of child sexual abuse by a former babysitter.
The boxing icon, 74, is already subject to two lawsuits by women alleging the ex-heavyweight champion molested them when they were as young as 13 – claims that Foreman denies.
According to the Daily Mail, a third woman, 64, has come forward with allegations of child sexual abuse and has filed a civil lawsuit claiming the 74-year-old forced himself on her when she was 15 and he was over 24.
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She says the alleged abuse happened at his ranch in Livermore, California, around 1974, which was the year his iconic Rumble in the Jungle showdown against Muhammad Ali went down.
The new complaint states the woman was taken to California by a Foreman family member to babysit the boxer’s child with Foreman paying for ‘all expenses’.
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The papers say that while she was left alone with the boxer, he ‘began to ask plaintiff [complainant] sexually explicit questions which plaintiff replied that she had absolutely no experience of’.
The woman, who was 15-years-old at the time, says she turned down Foreman who then ‘began to proposition her with money in exchange for him sexually penetrating her’, and she claims he subsequently raped her.
The two initial women who alleged they were sexually abused by Foreman in the 1970s are Gwen Hunter and Denise Shipes, who say they were the daughters of Foreman’s sparring partner and boxing manager respectively.
According to the lawsuits, they claim they first met him when they were under 10-years-old and allege Foreman groomed them for years, then forced them to have sex with him in several locations.
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Last year, Foreman announced a statement on the lawsuits, vehemently denying the claims.
He said: “Over the past six months, two women have been trying to extort millions of dollars each from me and my family.
“They are falsely claiming that I sexually abused them over 45 years ago in the 1970s. I adamantly and categorically deny these allegations.”
The Daily Star has approached George Foreman for comment on the latest allegations.
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