Two women are suing George Foreman over allegations that the former heavyweight boxing champion sexually abused them when they were teenagers in the 1970s.
The women filed separate lawsuits Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging Foreman began grooming them when they were just 8 and 9 years old and later raped them when they were 15 and 16.
Foreman, 73, denied the allegations and called them an attempt at extortion in a statement to The Post.
The women, both now in their early 60s, filed the lawsuits under the aliases Gwen H. and Dennis F.
The lawsuits describe a similar pattern of alleged abuse by Foreman.
Each woman said they first met the boxing star when they were children because their fathers were boxing partners of Foreman.
Denise, a Los Angeles resident, said Foreman started cutting her hair when she was just 8 years old. When she turned 15, he forced her to have sex with him repeatedly, including in a San Francisco hotel room, according to her lawsuit.
Similarly, Gwen from Nevada said she first met Foreman when she was 9 years old. She said in her suit that he began sexually abusing and raping her between the ages of 15 and 16.
She also claims that Foreman told her father that he would lose his job as a boxing consultant if she did not go along with his sexual remarks.
Foreman called the allegations “baseless threats and lies.”
“For the past six months, two women have been trying to extort millions of dollars each from me and my family,” he said. “They falsely claim that I sexually abused them over 45 years ago in the 1970s. I categorically and emphatically deny these allegations.”
Foreman is not named in the lawsuits, which name him DOE 1, but the suits provide identifying information about the boxer, including details about his professional sports career.
The women were able to file the lawsuits after California passed a law in 2020 that temporarily lifted the statute of limitations that previously prevented victims of childhood sexual abuse from filing civil lawsuits.
Both women are seeking a trial and an unspecified amount in damages.
With postal cables