The woman who says former New York Knick Kristaps Porzingis raped her later sent him explicit photos of herself and tried to shake down the team’s legal department for cash — all before reporting the alleged crime, according to a new report.
The unnamed 29-year-old woman, who says Porzingis forced himself on her inside his posh Manhattan apartment hours after suffering a devastating knee injury Feb. 7, 2018, contacted the Knicks’ legal department to “mediate in private” a $68,000 payment, ESPN reported, citing copies of her emails and text messages.
She communicated with franchise lawyers from October to early November but did not file a police report until Thursday, when she walked into the 10th Precinct station house and reported Porzingis beat her and called her a “bitch” and “my slave” during the encounter.