Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - There were vivid and stunning revelations Friday from two men who both say they fell for Karen Cunagin Sypher.
One of them is her former husband and the other is her former lawyer.
Louisville attorney Dana Kolter took the stand Friday afternoon and testified that his relationship with Karen Sypher was anything but strictly professional.
He testified:
"I saw her on her birthday of 2006. We kissed that day for the first time. I could tell there was the kind of connection men and women have."
He then talked about a visit Sypher made to his law office in 2008.
"It was Valentine’s Day. My wife wasn't at work. She called me, came by, brought me cakes and we had oral sex in the office," said Kolter.
Kolter said he took pictures of that visit and they were shown to jurors Friday afternoon.
Then the focus shifted to a letter Kolter wrote to Rick Pitino in March of 2009, which accused Pitino of raping Karen Sypher and forcing her to have an abortion.
He said he wrote the letter because he believed Sypher but admitted he did not research on his own to try to verify her claims.
Kolter cried on the stand as he testified "If what she was telling me was the truth, they were gonna kill her. I couldn't let that happen."
And then he said he agreed to represent her for 10 percent of her claims.
"I was having a personal crisis over this; I was afraid what it would do to me, that I would be crushed like a grape."
Earlier in the day, Tim Sypher testified about a completely different letter. It was an alleged list of demands he handed Coach Pitino in February 2009.
It asked for cash, cars and other things in exchange for silence but Tim Sypher testified he never read it.
"I was very confused. My heart sank on February 26. I didn't know what was going on," he said.
Under cross examination Tim Sypher testified, "She wrote it down. I didn't have anything to do with it.
Defense attorney Jim Earhart replied, "You had everything to do with it Mr. Sypher."
To which Sypher replied, "She didn't have to write it."
