Two women have filed lawsuits in a Los Angeles court alleging that former heavyweight boxing

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champion George Foreman sexually assaulted them in the 1970s. Since the claims were first made

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public last month, Foreman, 73, has rejected them, and his representatives have pointed inquiries

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regarding the cases to one of his prior statements. On Wednesday, the ladies filed separate cases in Los Angeles

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County Superior Court using the aliases Gwen H. and Denise F. The claims refer to Foreman as

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DOE 1, but they also identify him as the professional boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win

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the heavyweight world championship before losing it to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Both women,

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who are now in their early 60s, claimed that the reason they first encountered Foreman as kids was because

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their fathers were Foreman's boxing partners. In her case, Denise, a resident of Los Angeles, claimed

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that Foreman groomed her when she was 8 years old and engaged in sexual activity with her when she was

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15 (under the legal age of consent), once in a hotel room in San Francisco. Gwen, a native of Nevada,

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said that she first encountered Foreman when she was 9 years old and that he sexually assaulted and raped

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her between the ages of 15 and 16, including at a Beverly Hills apartment. She claimed that Foreman warned

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her that failure to cooperate would result in her father's termination as a boxing consultant.

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