A former boyfriend of Sharon Bialek, the Chicago woman who accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of sexual harassment, will talk to reporters on Monday to provide information supporting Bialek’s claims.
The unnamed man, whom Bialek said is a pediatrician, will hold a news conference with Gloria Allred, Bialek’s attorney, at 2 p.m. ET in Louisiana. The event was first reported by RadarOnline, a celebrity news site.
Bialek said Cain reached up her skirt in 1997 when he was president of the National Restaurant Association and she went to him seeking job advice. Following the alleged incident, Bialek said she told her boyfriend at the time what happened. Cain denies the allegations.
The news conference comes almost immediately after Cain’s wife, Gloria, agreed to discuss the allegations for the first time on national television in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. In the interview, which was pre-recorded and is set to air Monday evening, Cain’s wife defends her husband and rejects the allegations.
“To hear such graphic allegations and know that that would have been something that was totally disrespectful of [Bialek] as a woman and I know that’s not the person he is,” she said, according to partial transcripts of the interview.
