Multi-time former world heavyweight champion George Foreman is dealing with a lawsuit in California filed by two ladies who allege Foreman sexually abused them within the Nineteen Seventies. The submitting of the swimsuit comes after information of the allegations turned public in July.
The 2 ladies, underneath the pseudonyms Gwen H. and Denise F., filed separate fits in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket on Wednesday. Whereas Foreman shouldn’t be talked about by identify within the submitting, “Doe 1” is described as an expert boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to turn into the heavyweight champion earlier than dropping the title to Muhammad Ali.
Each ladies allege that they met Foreman between eight and 9 years previous earlier than Foreman raped them whereas they had been of their mid-teens. The ladies are in search of jury trials.
A New York Instances article claimed that “Gwen H.” is the daughter of a former advisor to Foreman. On the time, Foreman allegedly threatened the daddy with the lack of his job ought to the alleged actions be reported.
“Over the previous six months, two ladies have been making an attempt to extort hundreds of thousands of {dollars} every from me and my household,” Foreman mentioned in an announcement in July. “They’re falsely claiming that I sexually abused them over 45 years in the past within the Nineteen Seventies. I adamantly and categorically deny these allegations. The pleasure I absorb my status means as a lot to me as my sports activities accomplishments, and I can’t be intimidated by baseless threats and lies.”