Ex-Syracuse coach Bernie Fine's wife 'had sex with players'

New York, Feb 1 (ANI): Bernie Fine's wife often had sex with his team's basketball players and later discussed their sexual performance with another coach's wife who used to do the same.

Mark Davis, a former Syracuse University ball boy who is accusing assistant coach Fine of molesting him back in the 1990s, made these revelations in the court papers he filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court.

In the court filing, he says that he often drove Bernie Fine's wife Laurie Fine to a student housing complex, along with another coach's wife. That's where they'd hook up with two players, identified as "Players 2 and 3".

During the car ride, "the two women spoke explicitly about their sexual exploits with Players 2 and 3. In particular, both women would talk about how good the two players were at various sexual acts, and talk about what specific acts each of the men liked," including fellatio and other oral acts, the suit says.

On an earlier occasion, he went with Laurie to a house where several undergrads were living, and saw her go into the bedroom of an athlete identified as "Player 1". He said he "later saw Player 1 come out fist-pumping the air and bragging about how he had just had sex with Laurie."

He said he also suspected her of having a relationship with a fourth player "because of the way she acted with him." Davis also mentioned that her pick up moves were always the same.

"She would focus on one individual player and start paying enormous attention to that one player by doing the player's laundry, lending him her car, giving the player money and gifts, including jewellery, and generally ingratiating herself into the player's life until it became clear that they were in an intimate relationship," the New York Post quoted his affidavit as saying.

The former ball boy said Laurie Fine's activities gave her a reputation with the team.

"Players used to joke openly about it as a known fact - that Laurie Fine gave (good oral sex) and was great in bed, and that anyone could 'do the coach's wife," he said.

He said he told Fine about his wife's trysts, and he "did not react in the slightest."

Davis made these revelations as part of his lawsuit against Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim for smearing him as an opportunistic liar after he came forward with his allegations against Bernie Fine.

The filing says Boeheim must have known that Fine - a close friend and neighbour of Boeheim's - was having inappropriate relations with ball boys and that his wife was having inappropriate relationships with players.

"If Laurie Fine was having multiple sexual relationships with basketball players, then the University must explain how this could have been taking place for years right under Coach Boeheim's nose without his being aware of it and without the University's doing anything about it," Mark Davis' lawyer, Gloria Allred said.

She is asking a judge to lift a stay on the case so they can collect information from the former flings of Laurie Fine, who they believe are living in New York City.

Justice Anil Singh has scheduled a hearing on the matter for February 10.

Laurie Fine's lawyer, Ed Menking, refuted the claims and called Allred "irresponsible" and "unprofessional".

"This is both desperate and disgusting, an example of an irresponsible and unprofessional lawyer flailing about to keep a dying lawsuit in the public eye," he said.

"Only the news media can think that 20-year-old hearsay is newsworthy if salacious enough," he added. (ANI)

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