Louisville, KY -- (Sports Network) - Louisville head men's basketball coach Rick Pitino held a press conference Wednesday to deny allegations of sexual assault relating to his extortion case with Karen Cunagin Sypher.

Pitino previously apologized publicly for reportedly having consensual sex and paying for an abortion for Sypher, with whom he had an affair in August, 2003. Tapes were recently released showing Sypher at a Louisville Metro Police station claiming that Pitino forced her to have sex with him.

"Everything that's been printed, everything that's been reported and everything that you're showing and breaking in with on a day when Ted Kennedy died is 100 percent a lie," Pitino said. "A lie. All of this has been a lie and a total fabrication of the truth, except for what I told you - the mistake that I made. Everything else is a lie."

It was previously reported that Pitino, who is married and has five children, had sex with Sypher at a Louisville restaurant where he had been drinking on August 1, 2003.

The Louisville-Courier Journal obtained Louisville Metro Police reports, in which Pitino told authorities he gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion and denied Sypher's claims that he raped her on two occasions.

"I admitted to you that I made a mistake. And believe me that I will suffer for that mistake," Pitino said. "My wife and family do not deserve these lies. (The media) shouldn't be reporting these lies. You want to report the truth? Go ahead and do it. Report the truth. Do your investigative reporting. Get the open records. Get anything you want that you can get. When it comes to trial, you'll know the truth and that's why I haven't gone around to Inside Edition and this station and this station and this station - because I know it's going to come out."

Sypher was indicted by a federal grand jury of trying to extort money from Pitino to the tune of $10 million and lying to the FBI about the alleged incidents. She pleaded not guilty, but a Kentucky prosecutor declined to pursue the case due to a lack of evidence.