Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2011 while they posed together for a photograph together at an Oregon bar but was never charged, according to leaked police transcripts.
A woman, who has not been publicly named, told the Portland Police Bureau shortly after the alleged incident in April 2011 that Cuban “pushed his hand down the back of her jeans and inside her underwear where he cupped his hand over her groin area and inserted the tip of his finger into her vagina,” per the transcript obtained by the Willamette Week.
While the woman told the local newspaper she stood by her complaint, Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, reiterated his denial of the allegations through his attorney.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office conducted an investigation into the claims seven years ago, but found there was not enough evidence to press criminal charges.
The report follows an expose published by Sports Illustrated into the workplace culture of the Dallas Mavericks, described in the article as being “rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior.”
Cuban, a potential 2020 presidential contender, said he did not “have any doubt” about the sexual misconduct accusations leveled against President Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 election because he knew one of Trump’s alleged victims.
