[troutman]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

The woman accused of trying to extort as much as $10 million from Rick Pitino over a sexual encounter says the Louisville coach orchestrated a plot to keep her silent, including a claim that her current husband was paid to marry her.

Karen Sypher, whose extortion charge is still pending, says in Friday's edition of the New York Post that Pitino -- a married father of five -- engaged her at a Louisville restaurant in 2003, where the sexual encounter is said to have occurred. Pitino admitted to the tryst Wednesday and issued a public apology.

The Post reported that Sypher, who at the time was divorced from a previous marriage, went on to claim that her subsequent marriage to Tim Sypher -- Pitino's equipment manager -- was all part of an elaborate plot Pitino used to keep the incident private.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...93pitino1.html