Attorney Mark Baute criticized the news conference in which former Spectrum SportsNet host Kelli Tennant reiterated her accusations of sexual assault against former Lakers coach Luke Walton.
In the Tuesday afternoon news conference, Mardirossian said the incident happened in 2014, a detail that was not in the lawsuit. The complaint did mention a second incident that allegedly took place in May of 2017 at a charity function. Tennant said Walton leered at her and hugged her, renewing feelings of disgust that dated back to the alleged hotel room assault.
Baute in a statement on Monday, after the lawsuit became public, called Tennant an “opportunist, not a victim.” Asked why he and Tennant did not go to police, Mardirossian said their interest was “not to have Mr. Walton put in jail or to be investigated by police necessarily.”
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