OT Report: Woman Told Police That Mark Cuban Sexually Assaulted Her While Posing For A Photo In 2011

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  1. e_blazer

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    Are you sniffing Cuban’s finger?
     
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    https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story...assault-allegations-against-mark-cuban-030718

    NBA reviewing sexual assault allegations against Mark Cuban

    DALLAS (AP) The NBA is reviewing 2011 allegations of sexual assault againstDallas Mavericksowner Mark Cuban and the investigation that led to a decision by prosecutors not to pursue the case.

    League spokesman Mike Bass said Wednesday the NBA was looking into the matter, a day after a weekly alternative newspaper in Portland, Oregon, reported a woman’s claim that Cuban put his hands down her pants and touched her inappropriately while they were taking a photo at a Portland nightclub.

    ”The NBA league office is reviewing the 2011 allegations against Mark Cuban and the subsequent findings from the Portland police investigation,” Bass said.
     
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    So one thing that doesn't make sense to me.... she went to the cops, but didn't want to press charges?

    He passed a poly. He had medical professionals testify that it would be impossible. And I still think the guy would have to be some kind of bendy mother fucker to pull off what she said he pulled off, and all in a matter of a couple seconds because I can't imagine she would just stand there and let him do it.
     
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    The testimony from the "medical professional" is a joke. Anyone here saying that maneuver is impossible is inexperienced in the art of foreplay. I'm guessing the 'penetration' in question was minimal. More of a 'diddle', if you will.

    DISCLAIMER: I do not recommend attempting this maneuver on anyone but a significant other. Duh.
     
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    Does it have to be OUR significant other......? :devilwink:
     
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    This is like OJ Simpson and the glove. It is ALL about motivation.
     
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    There must be a Statue of Limitations, on finger pointing accusations...getting a bit ridiculous about being tried in public opinion when a person is innocent until proven guilty.
    To me if he really did it someone had to witness it amongst all those people....
     
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    If the finger don't fit...then you must acquit!
     
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    So this guy can afford having as many upscale escorts he wants, straight 10/10 girls, but he chooses to risk himself, his family, his reputation and team on the line in order to get 2 seconds of touching some average girl's ass.

    Yeah....i usually don't buy these type of stories.
     
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    Hey when you are drunk you do a lot of stupid shit. Reasoning goes out the window. I doubt he did exactly what he was accused of...but "groping" in 2011 was not thought to be a big deal to guys like him, but it is coming back to bite them.

    Not sure St. Patrick's Day down at Jakes can ever be the same.
     
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    Took forever. I knew that line was coming.

    I would have added Cuban's new lawyer Johnny Cockring......
     
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    "Being Drunk" is kinda blown out of proportions. You have to be completely WASTED to do stupid shit like this.
    I almost never drink, but when i do try to knock down 5-6 shots of Jack Daniels, i still feel like i'm in control of my own actions.

    Who said Cuban was drunk, anyway?
     
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    The security guard\bouncer that was there that night. Said he was wasted, sweating profusely, yelling everything he said. He was cut off. Told they wouldnt sell him anymore drinks. He was taking pictures with several women being gropey with them. He got smashmouthed and lost all inhibition, thought he could do whatever he wanted because his fame and wealth. Turns out even if you are rich and famous you cant just grab women by the pussy...unless your Trump
     
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    https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sport...ht-alleged-2011-sexual-assault-190920107.html

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    A security worker on duty at the Portland, Ore., nightclub where a woman alleged Mark Cuban sexually assaulted her in 2011 says that the Dallas Mavericksowner appeared drunk enough that night that he was eventually asked to leave the bar, and described Cuban as “gropey toward” the women with whom he took photographs, according to The Oregonian.

    The Portland alternative weekly publication Willamette Week reported Tuesday that Portland police in April 2011 had investigated a claim that Cuban, in town for the Mavericks’ playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers, had “thrust his hand down the back of [a woman’s] jeans and penetrated her vagina with his finger” while posing for a picture. That investigation did not lead to Cuban’s arrest or the filing of criminal charges, as the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office “determined there was insufficient evidence” to move forward with prosecution.

    The lawyer Cuban hired in 2011 to represent him in the matter has claimed the woman — whom Willamette Week did not identify, as she is the alleged victim of a sexual assault — made false allegations against his client. “It didn’t happen,” Cuban told the Dallas Morning News, among other media outlets, this week via email.

    Reached by the Willamette Week, though, the alleged victim held firm: “I filed the report because what he did was wrong. I stand behind that report 1,000 percent.”

    According to the Willamette Week, investigators interviewed several bartenders and security guards at the Barrel Room nightclub, “but none of them said they’d seen anything.” On Wednesday, Christopher White — a security worker at the Barrel Room who says he was on duty that night, but whom police never interviewed — told the Oregonian that he saw Cuban “with his entourage and witnessed Cuban putting his arm around a woman for a photo:”

    “She jumped away like she was not happy with him,” White, 33, said in an interview Wednesday with The Oregonian/OregonLive. “That’s when the energy in the room kind of exploded.” […]

    White’s recollections are the first reported from an independent eyewitness who offers support for the woman’s account.

    “I didn’t have a camera on his hand,” said White, who held various positions at the Northwest Third Avenue club between 2010 and 2014. “But it sure looked like it was too low to be just on her back.”

    Saying he was relying on his memory of the events of seven years ago, White supported the alleged victim’s friend’s assertion that Cuban was “very drunk.” He told the Oregonian that Cuban “seemed very drunk when he arrived,” “was sweating and his hair looked messy,” and “slurred his words and gestured wildly as he interacted with people.” (“He was slinking around all over the place,” White said. “I believe we told him we couldn’t serve him any alcohol.”)

    Working crowd control on the night in question, here’s how White described the scene around Cuban at the Barrel Room:

    Club patrons were enthralled by the presence of the public figure, who also stars on the ABC show “Shark Tank” and has publicly toyed with running for president, White said. Some snapped photos of Cuban and tried to touch him.

    Cuban would point his finger at women with whom he wanted to be photographed and beckoned them, White said. The way Cuban touched some of the women struck White as inappropriate because his hands moved well below the middle of their backs, he said.

    “He was, like, really kind of gropey toward them,” White said. “It just wasn’t how you’d normally pose in a picture with someone.”

    White said he was standing about 20 feet away from the woman and Cuban when the photo was being taken. He did not tell the Oregonian that he saw Cuban reach into the woman’s pants.

    “She definitely jumped after he had put his arm around her,” White said.

    Eddie Sefko of the Dallas Morning News reported that a Mavericks source “said that the organization was confident that” the resurfaced 2011 allegations “were unfounded, although the alleged victim maintained that it happened.” Cuban’s attorney, Jacob Houze, dismissed White’s statement.

    “This former employee of the bar who is coming forward today, seven years later, says he was watching Mr. Cuban at the critical moment when the photographs were being taken and Mr. Cuban did not put his hand in the complainant’s pants,” Houze told the Oregonian in a statement. “This former employee’s claims about Mr. Cuban’s interactions with other patrons and employees are directly refuted by all the witnesses who were interviewed by the police. Once again, this did not happen.”

    The report about the 2011 allegation comes two weeks after Sports Illustrated published an investigation into a Mavericks “corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior.” The SI story included allegations of serial sexual harassment of female employees by former team president and CEO Terdema Ussery, as well as separate instances of domestic violence by former team beat writer Earl K. Sneed, who remained on staff in what Cuban would later call “a horrible mistake.”

    In the wake of the SI report, the Mavericks hired an independent law firm to conduct an investigation into the depths of the franchise’s harassment issues over the past two decades. The NBA has said it is closely monitoring the investigation. The Mavericks have also hired a new interim CEO, Cynthia Marshall, who made it clear that the organization would strive to create “a workplace where there is zero tolerance for sexual harassment, domestic violence or any type of inappropriate behavior.”

    NBA spokesman Mike Bass told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the league is looking into the matter.

    “The NBA league office is reviewing the 2011 allegations against Mark Cuban and the subsequent findings from the Portland police investigation,” he said.
     
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    Can't wait until they reenact this and prove it can't be done in a courtroom
     
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