Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has denied allegations of sexual misconduct made by six massage therapists in the Baltimore area.
Tucker, 35, has been accused of brushing his exposed penis on two of the massage therapists, in addition to leaving what was believed to be ejaculate on a massage table after three treatments, across sessions he attended between 2012-16, The Baltimore Banner reported Thursday.
The longtime kicker called the allegations “unequivocally false.”
“I have never before been accused of misconduct of any kind, and I have never been accused of acting inappropriately in front of a massage therapist or during a massage therapy session or during other bodywork,” Tucker wrote in a statement posted to X. “I have never received any complaints from a massage therapist, have never been dismissed from a massage therapy or bodywork session, and have never been told that I was not welcome at any spa or other place of business.”
Two of the spas where Tucker was accused of misconduct barred him from returning, according to The Baltimore Banner.
The massage therapists alleged that Tucker “repeatedly attempted to expose his genitals,” with one accusing him of touching her wrist with his exposed, semi-erect penis.
None of the women who accused Tucker of misconduct brought the allegations to police, the report said.
Multiple massage therapists told the outlet that Tucker would adjust the sheets to expose his genitals during massages.
One therapist said she found a “huge wet spot” on the massage table that she believed was ejaculate, while Tucker’s attorneys told the outlet there were “myriad explanations for why a massage table would appear damp,” such as sweat or body oil.
Tucker took aim at The Baltimore Banner in his statement.
“In accusing me of misconduct, the article takes innocuous, or ambiguous, interactions and skews them so out of proportion they are no longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations as fact. This is desperate tabloid fodder,” Tucker wrote.
“It is no surprise that the paper’s interactions with me were marked by journalistic failures at every turn. When I first learned that the newspaper was writing this article, they refused to reveal the full claims they were planning to make against me. It wasn’t until I was forced to hire the leading defamation law firm in the U.S. to write to the paper that they finally revealed what they were planning on writing. Then, when they did finally provide some of this information, they gave me next to no time to provide a response. It is clear why — they had no interest in what I (or anyone else) had to say.
“Once I reviewed the newspaper’s allegations against me, it was apparent that the newspaper was deliberately misconstruing events as nefarious (which were not) and were relying on third party speculation to create the false, preconceived narrative about me that they believed would generate clicks. The newspaper had already written this false, salacious profile well before ever attempting to speak to me or any of the bodywork professionals I have worked with closely for the better part of the last decade. The newspaper made no effort to interview these key witnesses until prompted to do so by my defamation attorney — because they did not want to hear what they had to say about me.”
Tucker won a Super Bowl with the Ravens in his rookie season in 2012-13 and is a seven-time Pro Bowler.
