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The Kitchen Master paid off several girls who accused him of rape. Was he just bad at checking ID? A victim of scandalous lying sluts?
https://www.si.com/vault/2000/06/19/...great-champion
In August 1997 De La Hoya got engaged to an 18-year-old woman
named Cassie Van Doran and announced proudly, "She's a virgin."
Less than two months later, another woman claimed that she was
pregnant by De La Hoya, and he immediately admitted
responsibility. (She would deliver a boy, Jacob, who has regular
contact with De La Hoya.) The engagement to Van Doran curdled,
and during the next two years De La Hoya would father another
child, his daughter by Moakler; see a supermarket tabloid
publish purported legal papers detailing his $2.5 million payout
to a woman who claimed she began a sexual relationship with him
when she was 15 (De La Hoya's lawyers deny that any payment was
made); and fend off a sexual assault claim that the Los Angeles
Police Department dismissed due to lack of evidence. "I was no
angel, let's put it that way," De La Hoya says.
According to Hernandez, however, his relationship with De La
Hoya really began to fray when a lawsuit was filed against the
boxer in November 1998 by a Santa Barbara woman, Nicole Rao, who
claimed that De La Hoya had raped and imprisoned her at his
condominium in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, during a high school trip
there in June 1996, when she was 15. De La Hoya and his camp
claim that Rao's long delay in filing the suit proves her to be
a gold digger, and they expect the case to be settled and placed
in the thick file labeled, in Arum's words, "the cost of being
Oscar."
No physical evidence links De La Hoya to the acts alleged by
Rao. Yet, for De La Hoya, any court proceeding promises
embarrassment. A motion by Rao's lawyers dated May 15 contains a
statement by former De La Hoya bodyguard Eric Purvis, who worked
for the boxer in 1995 and was later arrested and sentenced to
two years in prison for impersonating a police officer. Purvis
described an incident in which De La Hoya and a male friend
"were trying to take [a] girl's jeans off and she was saying
'no, no.' She seemed scared." Another time, Purvis stated, he
was "awakened in the middle of the night by a girl who was
yelling 'stop, stop' to De La Hoya, who was attempting to have
sex with the girl in the same room [in] which I was sleeping."
Purvis also said, "Among De La Hoya, his friends and his brother
Joel, these incidents of De La Hoya meeting younger girls at
nightclubs and getting them drunk and having sex with them were
not kept secret, but were actively made jokes about."
Worse, the May 15 motion includes sections of depositions taken
from De La Hoya, his brother and the boxer's friend Joey
Gonzalez that seem to give differing accounts of what happened
in Cabo on the night of June 26, 1996. Oscar's version is that
he and Rao and a group of 10 to 20 people left a bar after
midnight and went back to party in Oscar's condo, that he had no
sexual relations with Rao and that she was escorted by someone
else into a guest bedroom, where, he assumed, she passed out
from drinking. Joel states that he remembers no such party being
held at the condo after midnight. Gonzalez states that there was
a party but Rao did not get so drunk that she had to be put in
the guest bedroom.
named Cassie Van Doran and announced proudly, "She's a virgin."
Less than two months later, another woman claimed that she was
pregnant by De La Hoya, and he immediately admitted
responsibility. (She would deliver a boy, Jacob, who has regular
contact with De La Hoya.) The engagement to Van Doran curdled,
and during the next two years De La Hoya would father another
child, his daughter by Moakler; see a supermarket tabloid
publish purported legal papers detailing his $2.5 million payout
to a woman who claimed she began a sexual relationship with him
when she was 15 (De La Hoya's lawyers deny that any payment was
made); and fend off a sexual assault claim that the Los Angeles
Police Department dismissed due to lack of evidence. "I was no
angel, let's put it that way," De La Hoya says.
According to Hernandez, however, his relationship with De La
Hoya really began to fray when a lawsuit was filed against the
boxer in November 1998 by a Santa Barbara woman, Nicole Rao, who
claimed that De La Hoya had raped and imprisoned her at his
condominium in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, during a high school trip
there in June 1996, when she was 15. De La Hoya and his camp
claim that Rao's long delay in filing the suit proves her to be
a gold digger, and they expect the case to be settled and placed
in the thick file labeled, in Arum's words, "the cost of being
Oscar."
No physical evidence links De La Hoya to the acts alleged by
Rao. Yet, for De La Hoya, any court proceeding promises
embarrassment. A motion by Rao's lawyers dated May 15 contains a
statement by former De La Hoya bodyguard Eric Purvis, who worked
for the boxer in 1995 and was later arrested and sentenced to
two years in prison for impersonating a police officer. Purvis
described an incident in which De La Hoya and a male friend
"were trying to take [a] girl's jeans off and she was saying
'no, no.' She seemed scared." Another time, Purvis stated, he
was "awakened in the middle of the night by a girl who was
yelling 'stop, stop' to De La Hoya, who was attempting to have
sex with the girl in the same room [in] which I was sleeping."
Purvis also said, "Among De La Hoya, his friends and his brother
Joel, these incidents of De La Hoya meeting younger girls at
nightclubs and getting them drunk and having sex with them were
not kept secret, but were actively made jokes about."
Worse, the May 15 motion includes sections of depositions taken
from De La Hoya, his brother and the boxer's friend Joey
Gonzalez that seem to give differing accounts of what happened
in Cabo on the night of June 26, 1996. Oscar's version is that
he and Rao and a group of 10 to 20 people left a bar after
midnight and went back to party in Oscar's condo, that he had no
sexual relations with Rao and that she was escorted by someone
else into a guest bedroom, where, he assumed, she passed out
from drinking. Joel states that he remembers no such party being
held at the condo after midnight. Gonzalez states that there was
a party but Rao did not get so drunk that she had to be put in
the guest bedroom.
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