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Karen Sypher, the woman who is accused of extorting Rick Pitino and is in turn accusing Pitino of sexually assaulting her and encouraging her to get an abortion, has begun speaking out publicly about what she says Pitino did to her.

Sypher and Pitino agree on a few things: That the two met in a Louisville restaurant on August 1, 2003, that they had sexual intercourse on a table in the restaurant that night, that Pitino gave Sypher money a couple weeks later, and that Sypher had an abortion.

There's something like 10 kinds of crazy in the ever-expanding story on Louisville coach Rick Pitino and his relationship with the alleged extortionist Karen Cunagin Sypher. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the information she was holding over the married Pitino's head involved an extramarital affair. Still, this is now approaching pure soap-opera levels of melodrama.

The latest, as reported by the Courier-Journal, is that Pitino admitted to police investigators that he did have sex with Sypher and subsequently gave her $3,000 for an abortion after she claimed she was pregnant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The estranged wife of a longtime aide to Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino faces charges that she tried to extort the coach, at first demanding cars and tuition for her children, then later asking for $10 million, according to a federal complaint filed Friday.