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KENTUCKY....
Rick Pitino aide, Tim Sypher, has testified in the case against his ex-wife, Karen Cunagin Sypher, about helping her get an abortion, admitting he called clinics in Indiana and Ohio before taking the woman, then known as Karen Wise, to Cincinnati, where she terminated a pregnancy on August 29, 2003. Tim Sypher said he paid for the procedure with $3,000 Pitino gave to Karen Sypher for medical care, but not for an abortion. Pitino, married and Roman Catholic, has said he intended for the money to be used for medical insurance, not an abortion. Tim Sypher, who has worked for Pitino in various capacities since 1996, told jurors the coach called him on August 23, 2003, and asked to use his condo to meet with a woman about a “supposed pregnancy.” That meeting took place just less than a month after Pitino and Sypher had sex after hours at Porcini, an Italian restaurant where they met a few hours earlier. Tim Sypher says he heard nothing of the conversation, but six days later he took her to get an abortion. Less than a year later, Tim Sypher and Karen Cunagin Sypher were married. Karen Sypher attended functions around Pitino without problems, Tim Sypher said. Tim Sypher and Karen Cunagin Sypher divorced after she was indicted last year on charges of demanding cash and gifts worth millions from Pitino to keep it a secret about their 2003 sexual encounter.