Playmaker accused of rape

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Ex-NFL star Michael Irvin has been accused of drugging and raping a woman in a Florida hotel last week.

A 27-year-old Florida woman claims that she was at a bar with Irvin in the early hours of March 21 when they decided to go back to the former Cowboys star's hotel room at the W Fort Lauderdale.

Shortly after arriving at the room, she began to feel sick and the last thing she remembered was trying to fight Irvin off, she told police.

She woke up the following morning as the NFL Hall of Famer was preparing to check out without her, took an Uber home and called 911 at 7.30am, telling police she believed she had been drugged and raped, TMZ reports.

The woman underwent a medical swab and blood test although the results have not yet been released.
Police are now investigating the claims against the married father-of-four.

Irvin, now an NFL commentator, strongly denies the allegations and insists he was only in the hotel room with the woman for 15 minutes with the woman - while another man was present - and says there was no sexual contact.

'The allegations are completely false,' Irvin's attorney, Larry Friedman, told TMZ. 'In the few hours since we've learned about them we've already discovered many red flags about this young woman's background and the allegations she made against Michael.

A 27-year-old Florida woman claims that she was at a bar with Irvin in the early hours of March 21 when they decided to go back to his hotel room at the W Fort Lauderdale (pictured)

Irvin, now an NFL commentator, strongly denies the allegations and insists he was only in the hotel room with the woman for 15 minutes with the woman

'Even the complaint that she made specifically says she does not recall the events that took place. She was very drunk that night. Nothing happened and there was no assault.'

Irvin, 51, says the woman, a cosmetologist, texted the day after the alleged assault inviting him to: 'Come for a facial when you get back to Ft. Lauderdale.'

Friedman says that his client was in Fort Lauderdale to visit his 90-year-old aunt, and his nieces and nephews at a track meet.

'He was blindsided by news of these allegations,' he added.

An NFL spokesman declined to comment to reporters.

In 2011, a confidential settlement was reportedly reached in a civil lawsuit that accused Irvin of sexual battery. A woman had alleged Irvin sexually assaulted her while at a hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Fort Lauderdale in 2007.


 

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Yeah I think Irvin is to smart to throw away this second act he is currently on but if this is true he needs to be locked up for stupidity alone.
 

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Oh no....please tell me it's not true, Mike.

I thought maybe, just maybe, he had finally overcome all of his demons.

My favorite ever Cowboy. :sad
 

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Let's hope the drugged and raped part is not true and this woman just got really drunk and in the morning decided she could capitalize by taking the Bill Cosby angle. Even if he didn't drug and rape her it seems pretty clear that he took her back to his hotel room and potentially had sex with her (the test will prove the sex part but obviously not the consent). Not a good look for a married father of four if they can prove he had sex with her. Happens all the time but still not a good look, especially if his employer decides they no longer want to associate with him based on the infidelity alone.
 

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Yeah I think Irvin is to smart to throw away this second act he is currently on but if this is true he needs to be locked up for stupidity alone.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt on the drugged/raped part but do you really think he is "too smart" to bring an attractive (I assume), drunk 27 year old back to his hotel room, have sex with her, and try to get checked out of his room before she woke up? I do not.
 

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Even if the forensics exonerate him a lot of people will still believe the allegations. It's disappointing to see him involved in this kind of thing again whether he's guilty of any crimes or not.
 

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Why would a married man have a female in his room? I aaume he is still married.
 

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Even if the forensics exonerate him a lot of people will still believe the allegations. It's disappointing to see him involved in this kind of thing again whether he's guilty of any crimes or not.
Seems like this stuff happens to a lot of famous people. The majority of them are never substantiated. So my immediate reaction tends to be that it's not true. Which is sad for the women who really are raped by an athlete. But with so many gold diggers out there they get lost in the shuffle.
 

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I will give him the benefit of the doubt on the drugged/raped part but do you really think he is "too smart" to bring an attractive (I assume), drunk 27 year old back to his hotel room, have sex with her, and try to get checked out of his room before she woke up? I do not.
He says she was in the room for 15 minutes, could be a groupie who got pissed that he did not break her off.

I don't think he has ever stopped chasing the strange but I hope he is smarter than what is being claimed here.

But you never know.:shrug
 

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Seems like this stuff happens to a lot of famous people. The majority of them are never substantiated. So my immediate reaction tends to be that it's not true. Which is sad for the women who really are raped by an athlete. But with so many gold diggers out there they get lost in the shuffle.

I agree to a point, but after two or three allegations it's hard not to think there might be something to it.
 

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Seems like this stuff happens to a lot of famous people. The majority of them are never substantiated. So my immediate reaction tends to be that it's not true. Which is sad for the women who really are raped by an athlete. But with so many gold diggers out there they get lost in the shuffle.
My inclination is to not believe them either. You think to yourself why would a guy that can have lots of women because of his status resort to rape? We've certainly seen plenty of high of high profile hoaxes by women seeking money via false accusation.

But on the other hand there's Cosby, Darren Sharper, Big Ben -- and Michael himself settled this sexual battery case in 2007 (which I was unaware of.) These past cases make you wonder if maybe he is guilty.

It's just such a shame to see him back in controversy after he seemed to have cleaned his life up. I don't care about his personal life. I might try to bang everything that moved if I was rich athlete too. But he pushes religion so hard and then apparently still trolls bars for strange pussy. He's not unique in that but it is an ugly thing to witness in your sports hero.
 

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Guy is in his 50's, married with 4 kids, and still manages to put himself in situations like this.
 

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Dumb move on his part for even putting himself in position to be investigated for something like this.

You'd think after seeing what happened to fellow NFL Network colleague Darren Sharper would scare them all straight. Sharper's case wasn't that long ago and should be very fresh in all of their minds.
 

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rape or no rape, he's gonna have to explain to Mrs. Playmaker what that woman was doing in his room
 

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Irvin, 51, says the woman, a cosmetologist, texted the day after the alleged assault inviting him to: 'Come for a facial when you get back to Ft. Lauderdale.'
If this is true I call total bullshit on her claims. But it would be pretty easy to show this part. Also I think most hotels have cameras. So they should be able to see pretty easily if she was there for 15 minutes or all night long as she claims.
 
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