JUSTIN Tucker has been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by multiple massage therapists.
Six different therapists have accused Tucker, considered the best kicker in the NFL, of exposing himself to them, rubbing his genitals on them, and leaving ejaculate on massage tables after sessions.
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According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, Tucker has been banned from two spas for his behavior towards massage therapists.
Tucker’s attorneys denied the allegations on the basis that they were speculative and “impossible to prove.”
They also claimed that Tucker was never banned from the two spas.
“Mr. Tucker has never behaved inappropriately during any massage therapy session, and certainly never in the manner described” the lawyers said via The Banner.
“Any suggestion to the contrary is a fictitious and utterly baseless claim.”
Tucker released his own individual statement on X.
“The allegations in The Baltimore Banner article about me are unequivocally false,” he wrote.
“In accusing me of misconduct, the article takes innocuous, or ambiguous, interactions and skews them so out of proportion they are no longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations as fact.
“This is desperate tabloid fodder.”
The Banner reports that Tucker spent time at four luxury spas in the Baltimore area.
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Multiple therapists said that Tucker’s actions were so appalling that they refused to ever work on him again.
Two of the spas said he was banned from returning.
Six women spoke out to The Baltimore Banner about inappropriate experiences with Tucker between 2012 and 2016.
“I’ve told people about this over the years, and they either act like it’s hot goss[ip] or a joke,” one therapist who worked on Tucker in 2016 told The Banner.
“But it was really degrading.”
A massage therapist, who is not named but is identified by the letter J, is still traumatized nearly a decade after her alleged interaction with Tucker.
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“I can’t watch sports anymore. I see his face everywhere,” J told The Banner.
She noted that Tucker arrived for his appointment clad in Ravens gear.
“He made it a point to tell me, ‘I’m a kicker. I play for the Ravens,'” J said.
She claimed that Tucker asked her to focus on his glutes and inner thighs, but kept exposing himself.
“I tucked him in like a baby, but he kept repositioning himself so I would brush against” his exposed privates, J said.
Several therapists said Tucker’s behavior was so egregious that they ended his sessions early or refused to work on him again.
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“That is not normal massage behavior,” she said.
“I did hundreds of massages and I never ever had someone else do that.”
The Ravens did not immediately respond to The U.S. Sun’s request for comment.
Tucker is considered by many to be the greatest kicker in NFL history.
He has played 13 years with the Ravens, making seven Pro Bowls, winning the Super Bowl, and being named to the Hall of Fame All-2010s team.
Justin Tucker’s statement
The allegations in The Baltimore Banner article about me are unequivocally false.
Throughout my career as a professional athlete, I have always sought to conduct myself with the utmost professionalism. I have never before been accused of misconduct of any kind, and I have never been accused of acting inappropriately in front of a massage therapist or during a massage therapy session or during other bodywork. I have never received any complaints from a massage therapist, have never been dismissed from a massage therapy or bodywork session, and have never been told that I was not welcome at any spa or other place of business.
In accusing me of misconduct, the article takes innocuous, or ambiguous, interactions and skews them so out of proportion they are no longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations as fact. This is desperate tabloid fodder.
It is no surprise that the paper’s interactions with me were marked by journalistic failures at every turn. When I first learned that the newspaper was writing this article, they refused to reveal the full claims they were planning to make against me. It wasn’t until I was forced to hire the leading defamation law firm in the U.S. to write to the paper that they finally revealed what they were planning on writing. Then, when they did finally provide some of this information, they gave me next to no time to provide a response. It is clear why – they had no interest in what I (or anyone else) had to say.
Once I reviewed the newspaper’s allegations against me, it was apparent that the newspaper was deliberately misconstruing events as nefarious (which were not) and were relying on third party speculation to create the false, preconceived narrative about me that they believed would generate clicks. The newspaper had already written this false, salacious profile well before ever attempting to speak to me or any of the bodywork professionals I have worked with closely for the better part of the last decade. The newspaper made no effort to interview these key witnesses until prompted to do so by my defamation attorney – because they did not want to hear what they had to say about me.
I have always made a conscious effort to be considerate and respectful in all of the interactions with the community that I love so much. It is devastating for me to learn that anyone would feel I was offensive in any way. I maintain I did not act inappropriately at any point before, during, or after a professional bodywork treatment session. I would never intend to offend or hurt anyone, ever. As a matter of principle, I respect when individuals come forward to report misconduct of any kind. I support a process that allows claims to be properly investigated. But, for the sake of myself and my family, I cannot allow false claims to go unchallenged. I cannot be any clearer.
These allegations are false and incredibly hurtful to both me and, more importantly, my family.
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