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Police investigated Mark Cuban for sexual assault in 2011

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(Warning: Story contains a graphic description of sexual assault)

Portland police investigated Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in 2011 after a woman said that he sexually assaulted her.

According to the Portland Police Bureau report, obtained by Willamette Week's Nigel Jacquiss, the woman said she met Cuban at a bar in April and asked him to be in a photo with her. As they posed, she says Cuban put his hand down the back of her jeans and penetrated her vagina with his finger. She said the incident took place a week before she reported it.

Cuban was not charged, as the district attorney's office determined there was insufficient evidence. His attorney, Stephen Houze, said in a statement that the woman's account was "false" and "never happened."

When police initially spoke to Cuban about the woman's report, he admitted he consumed alcohol that night, but firmly denied assaulting her.

"Unbelievable. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. I'm just gonna be like a pariah no matter what," Cuban said, according to the transcript of his interview with Detective Brendan McGuire.

Willamette Week contacted the woman after obtaining the police records. She said she's moved on, but stood by the information she provided police.

"I filed the report because what he did was wrong. I stand behind that report 1,000 percent," she said.

The bureau withheld the photos she submitted as evidence. In the police report, McGuire notes two photos that potentially match her statement.

"In both images, Cuban's right shoulder is lowered and he appears to be stretching to reach his arm down. In one of the pictures, his arm can be seen behind (the alleged victim) and it appears Cuban is reaching down toward her buttocks ... Her teeth are clenched, eyes wider than the other pictures and brow raised showing a look of surprise and strain," McGuire wrote.

Cuban and the Mavericks organization have come under fire in recent weeks after a report from Sports Illustrated revealed years of mishandled sexual harassment complaints.

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