Two girls are suing George Foreman over allegations the previous heavyweight boxing champion sexually abused them once they have been youngsters within the Seventies.
The ladies filed separate lawsuits Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom alleging Foreman started grooming them once they have been simply 8 and 9-years-old and later raped them at age 15 and 16.
Foreman, 73, has denied the allegations and called them an extortion attempt in an announcement to The Put up.
The ladies, each now of their early 60s, filed the fits underneath the pseudonyms Gwen H. and Denise F.
The lawsuits element the same sample of alleged abuse by Foreman.
Every lady mentioned they first met the boxing star once they have been solely children as a result of their fathers have been boxing associates of Foreman.
Denise, a Los Angeles resident, mentioned Foreman started grooming her when she was simply 8 years outdated. When she turned 15, he pressured her to have intercourse with him on a number of events, together with in a San Francisco lodge room, in accordance with her lawsuit.
Likewise, Gwen, of Nevada, mentioned she first met Foreman when she was 9 years outdated. She mentioned in her go well with that he started sexually abusing and raping her between the ages of 15 and 16.
She additionally alleges that Foreman has advised her father that he would lose his job as a boxing adviser if she didn’t comply to his sexual advances.
Foreman referred to as the claims “baseless threats and lies.”
“Over the previous six months, two girls have been making an attempt to extort thousands and thousands of {dollars} every from me and my household,” he mentioned. “They’re falsely claiming that I sexually abused them over 45 years in the past within the Seventies. I adamantly and categorically deny these allegations.”
Foreman will not be named within the lawsuits, which check with him as DOE 1, nevertheless the fits present figuring out details about the boxer, together with particulars of his skilled sports activities profession.
The ladies have been capable of file the lawsuits after California handed a legislation in 2020 that quickly waves the statute of limitations that had beforehand prevented victims of childhood sexual abuse from submitting civil fits.
Each girls are in search of a jury trial and an unspecified quantity in damages.
With Put up wires
