The University of Louisville said Friday that it had started an investigation into allegations that Andre McGee, a former Cardinals employee, paid an escort service to provide sex for basketball recruits.
The allegations by Katina Powell are in a coming book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen” from a publishing arm of The Indianapolis Business Journal.
Some details of the book were published on the Journal’s website, and said that McGee hired Powell to provide strippers and prostitutes for recruits and some of their fathers during a four-year period.
Louisville issued a statement saying it learned of the allegations in August and immediately notified the N.