Lawyer: Pitino’s $3,000 Not For Abortion (ap)

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FILE- In this April 24, 2009, file photo, Karen Cunagin Sypher, listens as her attorney speaks to the media outside Gene Snyder Courthouse following a court appearance in Louisville, Ky., A newspaper is reporting that Louisville coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex and paid for an abortion for the woman accused of trying to extort him for $10 million. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, that Pitino told police he had been been drinking in a Louisville restaurant and had consensual sex with Karen Sypher in August 2003.

Rick Pitino's attorney says the coach gave $3,000 to a woman accused of trying to extort him so that she could buy health insurance. The Louisville basketball coach has told police that he had sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher and she later told him she was going to have an abortion and did not have medical insurance.

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