On October 24, 1997, all sexual assault charges are
dismissed against Marv Albert, after the sportscaster agrees to get counseling
and stays out of trouble for a year. According to Vanessa Perhach, Albert had
invited her to his room in the Ritz Carlton Hotel on February 12, 1997, after
announcing an NBA game. He then purportedly bit her on her back after she
refused his request for three-way sex. Albert, who met Perhach at the Miami
Hilton where she worked in 1986, resigned from his job at Madison Square Garden
and was fired from NBC after pleading guilty to assault and battery. During the
trial, which began on September 22, 1997, the defense brought into evidence a
taped conversation in which Perhach appeared to have offered a friend of hers
money in exchange for testifying against Albert. Later, however, the
prosecution introduced Patricia Masten, another hotel employee who claimed that
the sportscaster had bit her on two separate occasions and had tried to force
her to perform oral sex. According to the emergency room nurse that treated
her, Perhach had bite marks on her back, including one that broke the skin, and
a forensic dentist testified that he had made a definitive match between molds
made from Albert's teeth and the marks on Perhach's back. On July 15, 1998,
Albert was rehired by the Madison Square Garden Network to anchor MSG Sports
Desk, and as the radio play-by-play announcer for the New York Knicks.
Michael Thomas Barry is a
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