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<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Arizona fired </strong><strong>football coach Rich Rodriguez after discovering he had an extramarital affair while investigating allegations he sexually harassed female assistant &#8211; with a buy out of $6.5M</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Rodriguez, 54, a married father-of-two confessed to the affair, which the school learned of while investigating claims Rodriguez sexually harassed a female assistant </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Rodriguez who has been married to Rita for 28 years confessed to the affair, which the school learned of while investigating claims Rodriguez sexually harassed a female assistant </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>The coach&#8217;s former administrative assistant, Melissa Wilhelmsen, in her notice of filing is claiming that Rich Rodriguez subjected her to sexual harassment and created a hostile work environment at Arizona.</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Arizona University said that the investigation failed to substantiate the claims made by the accuser, because she refused to cooperate or hand over damning texts she claims Rodriguez sent her </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Wilhelmsen in her claim states that claims that in January 2017 he touched her breast and tried to kiss her while telling her about his marriage counselling with his wife Rita</p>
<p></strong></span><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>She is now suing Rodriguez for $7.5 million </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>The accuser says she was part of &#8216;Triangle of cover-up&#8217; that protected coach Rodriguez’s, aka ‘the predator’</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Coach Rodriguez who insists &#8216;I had an affair, but [there are] no [incidents of] sexual harassment&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #050000;">Rodriguez was hired by the Wildcats in 2011 after three seasons at the University of Michigan, where he had the lowest winning percentage in sc</span></strong><span style="color: #050000;">hool history </span></h6>
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Univ Of Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez [photo], may have walked away with a $6.5 million golden parachute, but he may be party to a $7.5 million lawsuit filed by the former administrative assistant who accused him of sexual harassment</strong></h6>
<div class="wp-caption-text featured">The former employee who accused now fired Arizona University football coach, Rich Rodriguez of sexual harassment, filed a Notice of Claim on December 28, signalling an intent to sue.<br />
The coach&#8217;s former aide, Melissa Wilhelmesen, in her filing is claiming that Rich Rodriguez subjected her to sexual harassment and created a hostile work environment at Arizona.</div>
<div class="wp-caption-text featured">On Tuesday night the University of Arizona school fired the embattled football coach in the wake of sexual harassment charges filed against the coach by Wilhelmsen who worked served as the coach&#8217;s long-term administrative assistant.</div>
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<p>The school president <a href="https://twitter.com/DAlamedaKOLD/status/948399724255571970" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter to students, faculty and staff</a> stating that this woman’s claim of sexual harassment against Rodriguez could not be confirmed by the university, but other information found during the investigation led to the decision to fire the coach.<br />
The accuser has filed a Notice Of Claim, to the tune of $7.5 million which basically is a notice that a lawsuit is forthcoming, with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.<br />
She details the basis of multi-million dollar notice of claim.<br />
Some of the details in the claim, <a href="http://tucson.com/news/local/breakdown-of-sexual-harassment-claims-against-ex-wildcats-coach-rich/article_94e9ed68-f0b0-11e7-a8ec-c3ea7f93a46e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as reported by the Tuscon Star</a>, include:<br />
“The Hideaway Book” and the “Triangle of Secrecy” were set up to help hide Rodriguez’s misdeeds. Wilhelmsen who filed the claim was part of the triangle, and repeatedly expected to cover for Rodriguez while he had an extramarital affair.<br />
Players on the team sent the woman pictures of their genitals and when she asked Rodriguez to intervene, he ignored her.<br />
In a Notice of Claim filed with the Attorney General&#8217;s Office,Melissa Wilhelmsen a married mother accused coach Rodriguez of touching her breast while trying to kiss her and suggestively grabbing his own penis while alone with her. s<br />
Wilhelmsen is planning to sue Rodriguez for $7.5 million, claiming that she was sexually harassed by the 54-year-old and forced to endure a hostile work environment where she was asked to lie and keep secrets during the six years she worked for him at the University of Arizona.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-287777" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Melissa-Wilhelmsen-and-Rich-Rodriguez-1.png" alt="Melissa Wilhelmsen and Rich Rodriguez 1.png" width="780" height="428" />Accuser Melissa Wilhelmsen [left], claims that working for coach Rich Rodriguez at Arizona University resulted in migraines and nearly ended her marriage</strong></h6>
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<p>In January 2017, Rodriguez began telling her about his marital problems with wife Rita, saying that he needed to be with someone who is passionate. He grabbed Wilhelmsen, “embraced her, touched the side of her breast and tried to kiss her,” but she pulled away and moved her head, Wilhelmsen said.</p>
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<p>Two weeks after the incident, Rodriguez told Wilhelmsen he wanted to “take care of her” and tried to give her $300 cash, which she refused.</p>
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<p>On February 22, Rodriguez called Wilhelmesen into his office and had her close the door, after which she saw that he was “grasping his penis beneath his basketball shorts.” Rodriguez continued to carry on a normal conversation with Wilhelmesen, who said that she “just looked down until he was through talking.” She told another employee about the incident, after which they began referring to Rodriguez as “the predator.”<br />
On another occasion, Wilhelmsen states that she caught Rodriguez “ogling” her and said, ‘no, you can’t do that … that’s not cool,’ but she claims his behavior only got worse.</p>
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<p>Other coaches made inappropriate comments about the woman’s clothing and her daughter, who also worked for the football team, saying her daughter was having sex with players.<br />
Rodriguez changed his workout schedule so he would walk back to his office shirtless, and past his administrative assistant.<br />
She also had to field a call complaining that Rodriguez had made unwanted sexual advances towards a massage therapist, but because of the “Triangle of Secrecy” she was expected to conceal it.<br />
The extremely uncomfortable working conditions made the comment “Title IX doesn’t exist in this office” a common joke around the office.<br />
Wilhelmsen told her husband the truth about the torturous office environment and they decided she needed to look for another job, regardless of the financial fallout or the risk to her daughter’s job with the athletic department.<br />
Wilhelmsen decided against reporting the behavior to the athletic department she said, because she feared that “many other coaches and staff members would probably lose their jobs” as a result.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-287731" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rich-Rodriguez-with-wife-Rita-1-1.png" alt="Rich Rodriguez with wife Rita 1.png" width="683" height="433" />Family man: Rich Rodriguez and his wife Rita. The couple have married for nearly three decades</strong></h6>
<p>After she left for a new job, Wilhelmsen was reminded about the harassment in a later conversation with a football booster and realized “her good name was now slandered through the university,” according to the claim.<br />
On Jan 2, university president Robert C. Robbins and athletic director Dave Heeke issued a statement: &#8216;This evening, we informed Head Football Coach Rich Rodriguez that we have terminated his employment effective immediately and will honor the separation terms of his contract,&#8217; read a letter sent to students and faculty by Robbins and Heeke.<br />
That letter went on to reveal that an investigation had been conducted by the school beginning last October after Rodriguez was accused of sexual harassment by a former assistant.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-287779" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Melissa-Wilhelmsen-left-and-Rodriguez-family-of-Wife-Rita-daughter-Raquel-Coach-Rich-Rodrigez-and-his-son-Rhett.png" alt="Melissa Wilhelmsen [left], and Rodriguez family of Wife Rita, daughter Raquel, Coach Rich Rodrigez and his son Rhett" width="736" height="638" /><strong>Melissa Wilhelmsen [left], has filed a $7.5 million Notice Of Claim against Arizona Univ. and coach Rich Rodriguez [seen right] with wife of 28 years Rita, their daughter Raquel and son Rhett who is also on the Arizona University football team</strong></h6>
<p>By the time &#8216;the investigation concluded on December 28, 2017, [the school probe] found<br />
Rodriguez &#8216;fully cooperated&#8217; with the investigation he said on Twitter and submitted to and passed a polygraph test, while his accuser refused to speak with the team looking into the claims or &#8216;turn over communications that she alleged provided support for her allegations.&#8217;<br />
&#8216;The investigation, which concluded on December 28, 2017, found that the original specific harassment allegations against Mr. Rodriguez could not be substantiated based on the evidence and witnesses available to it,&#8217; read the letter sent out on Tuesday.<br />
&#8216;However, Arizona Athletics did become aware of information, both before and during the investigation, which caused it to be concerned with the direction and climate of the football program.&#8217;<br />
Rodriguez is claiming that the &#8216;information&#8217; referenced by the school is a &#8216;consensual extramarital affair&#8217; he had in the past with a non-university employee.<br />
&#8216;It was wrong and I apologized to my wife and family,&#8217; said Rodriguez, who has been married to wife Rita for 28 years and has two college-aged children, Raquel and Rhett.<br />
And in addition to all this, the assistant who has accused Rodriguez of sexual harassment is now filing a $7.5 million lawsuit against her former boss.<br />
Rodriguez&#8217;s contract was set to run through the end of the 2020 recruitment season, and <a class="" href="http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">USA Today </a>reported in December that he was the fifth highest paid coach in college football.<br />
As a result, he will likely be leave his position with a payoff of $6.48 million.</p>
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Accuser sues school, former employee claims players sent her genital photos, Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez’s not only harassed her but refused to intervene
