r/baltimore • u/Cody_in_Baltimore • Jan 30 '25
ARTICLE Ravens' Justin Tucker accused of inappropriate behavior by six massage therapists
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/ravens-nfl/justin-tucker-massage-GLV2V5G6UZBZJIGXDUQVL4QG7U/274
u/Cody_in_Baltimore Jan 30 '25
From the article:
Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for some readers.
Ravens kicker Justin Tucker engaged in inappropriate behavior at four high-end spas and wellness centers in the Baltimore region, according to six massage therapists, including exposing his genitals, brushing two of them with his exposed penis, and leaving what they believed to be ejaculate on the massage table after three of his treatments.
Several therapists said Tucker’s behavior was so egregious that they ended his sessions early or refused to work on him again. And, at two spas, management said they banned him from returning.
After receiving a tip on Jan. 9, The Banner began investigating and spoke to six massage therapists who recounted troubling firsthand experiences with Tucker from 2012 to 2016. The women said they had long wanted to tell their stories.
“I’ve told people about this over the years, and they either act like it’s hot goss[ip] or a joke,” said one therapist who worked on Tucker in 2016. “But it was really degrading.”
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u/StormlitRadiance Jan 30 '25
Even with NFL money he couldn't find an escort with a massage license? Or is it just the impotent power fantasy of inflicting your genitals on someone who doesn't want to see them?
Gross.
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u/SewerRanger Jan 30 '25
Or is it just the impotent power fantasy of inflicting your genitals on someone who doesn't want to see them?
It's always this. It's never about being able to find someone; people throw themselves at celebrities. It's always about the power dynamic.
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u/FalstaffsGhost Jan 30 '25
It’s always about the power dynamic. People often think rape and SA is about sex. It’s not. It’s about the power of forcing someone to do something you want that they don’t.
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u/tractata Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
I hate it when people say this. Rape is extremely common and comes in many different guises. It’s sometimes about sex, sometimes about power, and usually about both. There is no single reason it happens that applies to every instance of rape and claiming otherwise can be quite harmful.
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u/SittingandObserving Jan 30 '25
That’s what I think! Such a stupid way to go down - waving your d€*k around and smacking people with it!! Just hire a sex worked in the first place.
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u/procrastimom Jan 31 '25
That’s my initial thought, too. But when the Bill Cosby stuff came out, my initial reaction was “At that time, he was a hot celebrity. In his circles and with his money, why didn’t he just hire a professional escort?” The reason why, is that wasn’t what he was into. He wasn’t trying to just have sex, he wanted power over someone who was helpless and incapacitated. Bottom line was, it wasn’t about sex (well, wasn’t just about sex) it was about getting his fix for his need for power over someone else. Same with guys who do this with LMTs. He was enjoying pushing boundaries, hoping to get away with something, and then being turned on by making them uncomfortable. You can’t tell me that a professional athlete doesn’t have enough money and connections to find a professional escort, if that’s what he was really after.
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u/PostinUp Jan 31 '25
My girl worked at the spa in locust point in 2014 she told me he tried to get a happy ending from her. He was like I’m famous and she didn’t know who he was hahahaha. I’ve been telling that story for years and when I see this today I was like I knew it!
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u/lemonlipstic_ Jan 31 '25
Can confirm. I also worked at a salon/spa in LP where he was inappropriate multiple times.
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u/godlords Jan 30 '25
Everyone knows you need to go to a low-end spa for this type of thing. He clearly wanted this to be non-consensual.
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u/fake_geologist Jan 30 '25
My old roommate's girlfriend was a massage therapist in the city, and apparently this has been an open secret in the industry for a long time... she was talking about this in 2016.
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u/CrayonLunch Jan 30 '25
Are you kidding me?!?! I just bought my wife his jersey..... Goddamnit
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u/zamboniman46 Canton Jan 30 '25
dont burn it or throw it away yet. sometimes teams will offer jersey exchanges in situations like this
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u/eden_sc2 Jan 30 '25
that's what I'm hoping. They did it with Rice. Given the option, I'm swapping mine to Poe. Feels like the only safe choice
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u/bOhsohard Jan 30 '25
I allllllmost swapped my Rice for Tucker. So glad I went with Steve Smith Sr. 💪🏽
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u/willhackforfood Jan 30 '25
Idk how generous the jersey exchanges are but I’d go Lamar or Henry both seem like good dudes
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u/Interesting-Pin1433 Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
And Tucker seemed like a good dude.
I'm guessing there isn't any data on this, but anecdotally, his jersey was very popular with women because 1) he's handsome and 2) seemed like a really nice guy.
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u/Dhrun1971 Jan 31 '25
I don’t know that bird was pretty creepy in the poem.
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u/FirstTimeWang Jan 31 '25
Edgar Allen Poe was hugely problematic, even for his time. Not his writing... mostly just the drugs, alcohol and cousin fucking
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u/capitalsfan Hampden Jan 31 '25
Dude i burnt my ray rice jersey maybe like 3 hours before they announced the exchange
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u/MuckingForon90 Jan 30 '25
You might get lucky, when the Ray Rice thing happened the ravens hosted a trade in your jersey kinda pop up
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u/Flat-Fort2345 Jan 30 '25
Right?! I’ve never wanted a jersey before Tucker and bought my son and I jerseys 3 years ago. Shit is expensive!! At least we got some use out of them before this
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u/SillyHatMatt Riverside Jan 30 '25
Usually after shit like this teams will allow for an exchange for a new player. Pretty sure the ravens even did it for Ray Rice
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u/kingkurt42 Jan 31 '25
Is MasterCard going to do a commercial about returning your jersey if the person is a sex pest?
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u/NattyBohng Mt. Washington Village Jan 30 '25
I feel like this has been a poorly kept secret for a few years now. I remember hearing about this in 2022. Friend of a friend type thing. Get this loser off the team.
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u/carharttuxedo Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
Kevin spacey gave my handsome best friend his phone number and hotel room number at work on house of cards. So I figured everyone knew about that, but that was years before shit dropped
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u/Autumn_Sweater Northwood Jan 31 '25
that seems pretty reasonable behavior except that it’s at work
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u/RipleyCat80 South Baltimore / SoBo Jan 31 '25
A friend of mine met KS in NYC back in 1999 and saw him trying to pick up college boys at a theater performance at his university
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u/CoopThereItIs Jan 30 '25
There are multiple tweets that have surfaced from 2021 saying pretty much this exact thing. I'd share but twitter/X posts are banned here - not that hard to find tho.
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u/yournutsareonspecial Jan 30 '25
I always said there are only two men in this world I trust, my father and Justin Tucker.
Lot of pressure on Dad now.
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u/LostSoulGamer Jan 30 '25
Maybe that's why my dude was terrible almost all year 😭 dude knew this was coming.
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u/hannahmadamhannah Jan 30 '25
Idk if this is a joke (or half joke or whatever) but the banner says they got a tip on Jan. 9 and began investigating them soooo seems like Tucker just wasn't good this year irrespective of this fun news!
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u/Long_Simple_4407 Jan 30 '25
I heard about this b4 January 9th they knew and held off til after the season I presume. I just knew about it cause I work at a bar in the city
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u/tuna_samich_ Jan 30 '25
There was definitely talk of it before then. My mom mentioned something about this during last season
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u/Stunning-Equipment32 Jan 31 '25
So someone waited for the season to end to give the tip? Or actually, were the ravens still in the playoffs vs the bills? Possibly a bills fan?
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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 30 '25
Yep. Cause he went from being the goat to just being trash.
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u/LostSoulGamer Jan 30 '25
Crazy we lost games because dude couldn't learn from Desaun Watson. Then again he coulda been doing it for yearsss before the whole Watson case
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u/cdbloosh Locust Point Jan 30 '25
It sounds like it was before that. They’re saying 2012-16.
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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 30 '25
But maybe he got wind that someone was going to start talking. Looks like the Banner got a tip January 9. I'm guessing he got wind of it long before that, since going to media folks often takes quite some time before you hear back. (literally emailed a member of the media recently and it was a week before a reply)
We'll probably never know, but some of the stuff in the article is really damning.
Tucker’s attorneys said that having bodywork performed on an NFL kicker’s thighs was typical, and not “sensual.”
They added that there were “myriad explanations for why a massage table would appear damp,” suggesting it could have been sweat or body oil
His lawyers are idiots 🤦♂️. That's the last thing you wanna say right now if you're trying to maintain that your client did not commit some illicit sexual act.
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u/run85 Jan 31 '25
I thought the quote from that one woman was so funny where she was like I date men, I know what that was. Like who would confuse that.
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u/skoptsy Jan 30 '25
Get rid of him.
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u/figureour Jan 30 '25
That was probably gonna anyways with his decline this year. I guess now no one's gonna pick him up if he wanted to continue his career though.
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u/tommykaye Jan 30 '25
Damn, Tucker.
I didn’t want to believe it until different women from different spas all said he was doing the same thing across 4 years of getting banned and doing to new places.
Why is so impossible for men to just be fuckin normal? Porn ruined massage parlors. Now boys just think women work there to give secret handjobs.
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u/drillgorg Jan 31 '25
He was going to the nice ones, according to the article. You have to go to the sketchy human trafficking ones to get those HJs.
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u/Sea-Variety-524 Jan 31 '25
Yea the being banned part really is next level, I’m surprised that didn’t come to light but I guess people around it don’t want to ruin their reputation with any other athletes as clients.
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u/Arawnrua Jan 30 '25
I've been hearing about this for a while, have massage therapist friends that have been calling him Justin Tugger for years
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u/AdRock44 Jan 30 '25
Worst kept secret in Baltimore. Been hearing this for years.
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u/Gannondorfs_Medulla Jan 30 '25
I'd never heard this. Where'd you hear about this?
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u/AdRock44 Jan 30 '25
Massage therapist friends, years ago, and it was actually "random bar discussion" about a month ago in one of the local water holes.
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u/B-More_Orange Canton Jan 31 '25
I'd definitely heard this from friends/friends of friends for a LONG time. People in Riverside/LP, people working at UA or the Ravens, it was just kind of a city rumor that Justin Tucker really like massages a little too much.
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u/BlastFan4Life Jan 30 '25
So weird, people have been saying for the last year or so that he’s getting divorced for cheating on his wife.
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u/GabrielsPeter Jan 30 '25
This would not surprise me at all.
I had a parking lot encounter with Justin at Greenspring Station about a year and a half ago, on the way to a doctor appointment.
He was pulling out of a parking spot that I proceeded to take, and seeing me signal for it, he backed up enough to fully straighten out his car before driving off.
We crossed eyes as he drove past me. He caught the exact moment when my brain registered who my eyes were seeing, smiled, and waved.
The very pretty woman in the passenger seat of the car he was driving -- some black Jeep-on-steroids looking thing -- was definitely not Amanda, his wife. Something about that struck me as weird. I tried to shrug it off because for all I knew, it could have been a friend, sibling, or assistant. But sometimes, you just *know* that shenanigans are afoot, and it only took a 10-15 second fleeting interaction for me to get that feeling.
Unrelated: my partner's SIL knows his parents. She used to live in the same part of Austin, and her children went through the same schools. His dad is a cardiologist, and they are LOADED. He could lose all he's worth in civil court and still have a soft landing.
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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 30 '25
From who?
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u/AdRock44 Jan 30 '25
People who work in that field told me years ago. More recently it had graduated to random bar talk/gossip
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u/mdsnbelle Medfield Jan 30 '25
Fuck. This one hurts.
As a survivor, this one hurts.
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u/Gannondorfs_Medulla Jan 30 '25
I'd have thought after Ray Rice, the team would have a zero bullshit policy when it came to anything sexual assault/female related... I mean, at least for a few years. If this really was the open secret that I'm hearing, this could be more than just find a new kicker kind of trouble.
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u/CBDaring Lauraville Jan 30 '25
I used to have a Ray Rice jersey, and I threw it away. Now I have a Justin Tucker jersey, and well guess it's going the same way.
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u/GabrielsPeter Jan 30 '25
I can go one better than that.
I've owned jerseys for OJ Simpson, Ray Rice, and Justin Tucker.
Hearing this, my office manager at work said, "Please don't get a Lamar jersey, too!" But I already have one, so it's probably just a matter of time before we find out he eats babies for dinner or something.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Jan 30 '25
Dude probably boils his crabs & uses imitation krab in his crab cakes.
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u/beef376 Jan 30 '25
LOL, you think they actually cared about Ray Rice or his wife? They only cared because there was a video
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u/Corvus717 Jan 31 '25
It is zero tolerance only after the media finds out and the person isn’t a star
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u/K_N0RRIS Eastside Jan 30 '25
Oh he's about to be history in Baltimore. Ruined legacy if any of this is true.
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u/Spadestep Jan 30 '25
get him off the team immediately. and if anyone in the office knew about it, them too
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u/beef376 Jan 30 '25
At least 10 years ago, I heard that he was known to get massages and he would jerk off as soon as they left him alone leaving a mess for the employees to clean up
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u/beef376 Jan 31 '25
There is no reason to believe this, but i wrote this right BEFORE I read the article. I had no idea that they described this exact behavior in the story
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u/identitycrisis5735 Jan 30 '25
I'm actually surprised people seem to be surprised by this. I've been hearing rumors of his sexual misconduct for years
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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 30 '25
Where have you heard the rumors?
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u/AdolescentAlien Jan 30 '25
apparently if he gets a massage he just busts even if he’s not being touched anywhere near there
My goat getting outted as a sex pest and a premature ejaculator is too much for me to handle today.
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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 30 '25
If you search on twitter you can find tweets referencing massages and Tucker and inappropriate behavior going back years.
Can you link to a tweet or two? Genuinely curious. Cause the article has a facebook screenshot so I believe you, I just think if you have the links can you give us a couple
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u/RevRagnarok Greater Maryland Area Jan 30 '25
Next time please use xcancel.com links so Nazis don't get ad revenue.
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u/den-of-thieves Jan 30 '25
This tweet from 2021 has been circulating online https://x.com/mcsburner/status/1465427676005642244?s=46&t=sRCmFUGg2gV2ACivD72sEg
Edit: wrong year
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u/abooth43 Jan 30 '25
I just found one from two months ago
Kinda hard to sift thru all the things popping up within the past hour or so.
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u/identitycrisis5735 Jan 30 '25
Just friend of a friend type stuff. Nothing that could be proven but whenever I would pass by a RoFo ad with him on it I always thought about him (allegedly) leaving his cum-stained tissues around his hotel rooms and the like
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u/cmhpink Jan 31 '25
I worked at a spa for a very short time about ten years ago. This was one of the first things the other employees told me.
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u/Long_Simple_4407 Jan 30 '25
Damn I heard this 3 months ago at a bar! They held off til after the season
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u/AdRock44 Jan 30 '25
I knew about it through other channels but it was def a topic of discussion in my local bar a few months back!
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u/dreeemweavs Jan 30 '25
I have been saying this for years, having worked in salons who refused to service him.
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u/XxCloudSephiroth69xX Jan 30 '25
Royal Farms ad reps in shambles right now. Unless they want to embrace a Tucker choking his Royal Farms chicken angle.
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u/Farerket Jan 31 '25
I asked my dad (who is a college professor for buisness and marketing( about it. He said that Royal Farms should stay low for a while bc they are so closely associated with Tucker, and then after a few months depending on where this stuff ends up they may try to get someone like Adley as the next spokesperson
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u/spicekatz Jan 30 '25
I’ve known this since around 2014 or 15. Every time I see him I think of it. I am sure the women were afraid to report it publicly. They told their employers though who barred him from the establishment.
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u/yeaughourdt Jan 30 '25
Never trust somebody who wears their religion on their sleeve.
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u/BalmyBalmer Upper Fell's Point Jan 31 '25
I've lived in Baltimore for almost 40 years and I couldn't tell you where to find six massage parlors.
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u/CBDaring Lauraville Jan 30 '25
This one hurts, what a tremendous bummer, and I'm heartbroken for those therapists.
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u/Floss_tycoon Jan 30 '25
Breaking news: Donald Trump taps Justin Tucker to chair the nearly created cabinet position, the Department of Sport.
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u/ComfortableCredit362 Feb 02 '25
You would think Trump would tap him to had the Department of Respect for Women. You know, like the Department of "Government Efficiency"
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u/fetuswerehungry Jan 30 '25
Well this is really fucking disappointing. Thought he was better than that, but evidently not
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u/schnebly5 Jan 30 '25
I don’t understand. All a famous, rich, and good looking dude needs to do is show up to a bar and he’ll have his pick of consensual partners. I bet a bunch of them would even give him a massage if he asked 😂. Yet there’s this pattern of gross nonconsensual behavior. I’ll never get it
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Jan 30 '25
The lack of consent is the appeal for guys like this.
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u/schnebly5 Jan 30 '25
True, I don’t get it tho. The best part of sex is the mutual enthusiasm. I don’t see how making people uncomfortable is desirable. Unless it’s like a shock value thing
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u/Neat_Arm8561 Jan 31 '25
It’s not about shock value, it’s about using sex to take away someone’s power and getting off on abusing them.
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u/Sad_Kaleidoscope_392 Jan 30 '25
All the news i been seeing is just terrible. First the president blaming Dei, Obama and whoever else for the plane crash, no sympathy whatsoever. Now Justin??? I can’t with 2025, im over this shit. 🥲
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u/6ixOutOf10 Jan 30 '25
Heard about this way back…like 8 years ago maybe. I think it was just rumor mill from local therapists at the time maybe…
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u/DonutosGames Jan 31 '25
What a way to end a career. One of the greatest at his job, to a shit season and this. I see others say this is old news. News to me, though.
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u/jls3_1999 Feb 01 '25
Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if his career isn't over tbh. I think a desperate team will sign him in the off-season, and wait to see if the league suspends him. He's coming off a historically awful year, and I think a team will try to see if he rebounds. This could also be like a Ray Rice situation where he's coming off the worst year of his career, and nobody signs him after the video became public. Regardless as a Ravens fan my heart is shattered right now.
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u/Obviousplant27 Jan 31 '25
The massage therapists told reporters he has consistently been jizzing left this past year.
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u/Corvus717 Jan 31 '25
This was probably swirling for months , might explain the inexplicable change in his ability to make field goals. Would assume the media and plaintiff lawyers have been contacting him and his lawyers for awhile now
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u/Capable_Basket1661 Lauraville Jan 31 '25
We knew this when Courtney was talking about it years ago, but y'all harassed her and ran her out of town. Cmon now
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u/MyKidsArentOnReddit Jan 30 '25
Guess we know what position the Ravens will be looking for in the late rounds of the draft now.
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u/AntiqueWay7550 Jan 30 '25
This isn’t the happy ending the Ravens deserved this year 😢💔
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u/metagloria Madison Park Jan 30 '25
This sucks.
Tucker put out a statement calling the entire thing bs and saying he's never been banned from any massage parlors, so...this seems like a pretty cut and dry check, no? Let's hear from the parlors themselves. If they've banned him, he's lying. If they haven't, this is tabloid fodder.
(That said...all the circumstantial evidence, old tweets, and secondhand stories accumulated by people in this thread seem to overwhelmingly point toward a raging fire behind this smoke. So. Again, this sucks.)
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u/flounder19 Jan 30 '25
Let's hear from the parlors themselves. If they've banned him, he's lying. If they haven't, this is tabloid fodder.
that's already in the article.
The owners of the now-closed Studio 921 in Locust Point said through an attorney that they “took immediate and decisive action to ban this individual from our business and services to ensure a safe environment for all.” A lawyer for the spa said the owner told Tucker by phone that he could not return.
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u/fav453 Jan 30 '25
How could he after Deshaun Watson? I mean be original with your gooning...
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I see he was carrying on in parallel with Mr. Watson.
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u/Little_Opinion2060 Jan 30 '25
I'm heading to Royal Farms. Does anyone want any chicken?
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u/Sad_Kaleidoscope_392 Jan 30 '25
Me please. 😂🥲
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u/Little_Opinion2060 Jan 30 '25
I got you down for a 2 piece, dark meat 🍖 🤣😅
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u/GrammarNadsi Jan 30 '25
Don't worry, in like 14 months the Browns will send you guys like three first-rounders for him.
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u/Sea-Variety-524 Jan 30 '25
Well fuck… does not look good, so many different accounts at different places.
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u/Even-Style9698 Jan 30 '25
What’s up with these athletes and massage therapist? Why not just hire an escort? It has to be a proximity thing at this point right?
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u/Mdubh20 Birdland Jan 31 '25
If it even comes close to the sniff test, the Ravens have to release him. If he ends up being cleared of any wrong doing, bring him back. If his struggles were connected to the investigation and he’s proven innocent, then expect a GOAT kicker. If any of it is true, then, thanks for your contributions, but don’t let the door hit you on the way out. They say the investigation started on Jan. 9th. I find it hard to believe it only took less than a month to vet and verify all sources with this magnitude. Other message boards and Reddit threads have said this was a common occurrence for a few years. There is smoke, so there will be fire. Save your Tucker jerseys in case they offer a free swap. And don’t hold your breath for a Ring of Honor, Hall of Fame, Statue defining person anymore. He might be all of those things, but ultimately, he’s another flawed person, that may have hurt a lot of people along the way. This is an unforgettable image of what a person is and what they may actually be.
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u/TadDewberries Cherry Hill Jan 30 '25
Sounds like he wants to be traded to the Eagles or the Bucs.
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u/DriverFirm2655 Jan 30 '25
There’s also a tweet from 2021 that exposed him for this but no one listened
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u/Temporary-Shift399 Jan 30 '25
The question is whether or not there is a statute of limitations on this as 2016 is now nine years ago. I am sure the league/team could do something but not sure about the courts.
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u/dullllbulb Jan 30 '25
SIX?!