Thursday, May 16, 2013
LeSean McCoy's agent denies Eagle assaulted woman
The representative for Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy said in a statement obtained by USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday that a woman's accusation that McCoy and/or his bodyguard assaulted her on a party bus last December "are completely, unequivocally false."
McCoy's agent, Andrew M. Smith, added that no criminal charges are pending from what he described as "a frivolous personal injury claim."
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The woman, who goes by the alias "Mary Roe," claims in a lawsuit that McCoy's publicist invited her and 15 other women to attend a party at a New York City nightclub. She is seeking more than $50,000, alleging assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
New Jersey police told TMZ that the woman had no visible injuries when she met with them at a rest stop near the New Jersey Turnpike last Dec. 19.
During that meeting with police, the woman never named McCoy as her attacker. But she now says either McCoy and/or his bodyguard roughed her up before booting her off the bus as it returned to Philadelphia from Manhattan.
"This is sadly an attempt to to extract money and LeSean will vigorously defend any attempt to collect money through a frivolous personal injury claim," Smith's e-mailed statement contends.
Eagles spokesman Derek Boyko declined to comment on the allegations against McCoy.
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