As if past sex scandals involving men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino and football coach Bobby Petrino wasn’t enough drama, a new book claims that a UL basketball assistant paid an escort to have sex with recruits and players.
The book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” is written by the escort in question, Katina Powell, and journalist Dick Cady.
Powell identifies former Louisville staffer Andre McGee as the point man who paid her for her staff’s services. A former player for the Cardinals, McGee was a graduate assistant under Pitino from 2010-12 and director of basketball operations from 2012-14. He spent last year as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, working under former Pitino assistant Kareem Richardson.
The book alleges that over a four-year period, Powell brought women into Billy Minardi Hall – the basketball dormitory on the Louisville campus that is named after Pitino’s late brother-in-law – through a side door to entertain players and recruits. Powell also says her dancers – which included her daughters – also entertained Louisville players at other locations off campus. After the women danced for the players for an agreed-upon sum, Powell alleges that she would negotiate a second payment for the women to have sex with the athletes.
If these allegations are true, Louisville is about to find itself in one of the biggest sports scandals in recent memory.
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