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Boxing legend George Foreman is being accused of sexually assaulting and abusing two teenage girls nearly 50 years ago.
The boxer, who was the world’s heavyweight champ in 1973 and later enjoyed a string of media appearances and business ventures, is the focus of two shocking new lawsuits filed this week in Los Angeles.
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According to multiple reports, the legal papers were filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by two women. In each lawsuit, the women claim their fathers worked with Foreman during his rise in the boxing world. Along with it, he allegedly started grooming them as children.
The women, who are identified in the lawsuits under pseudonyms Denise S. and Gwen H., claim they met Foreman in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Foreman is listed as “Doe” defendant in the suits, too. However, THR notes the documents identify the unnamed man as a former boxer who first went pro in 1969 and defeated Joe Frazier for the heavyweight championship in 1973 — so it’s undoubtedly Foreman.
As for specifics, Denise S. claims she first met Foreman when she was 8 years old. She alleged in the docs that he groomed her for several years until a fateful phone call in hear early teen years:
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The woman went on to claim Foreman allegedly raped her several times in 1976. She identifies those alleged assaults as occurring at a hotel in San Francisco.
In the second suit, Gwen H. claimed her father worked as an advisor to the star during his career. After first meeting the boxer as a child, Foreman later invited her to his apartment when she was 15 years old. The filing alleges Foreman threatened her
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