Gary Payton's Toronto Strip Club Fight Re-Enacted

In 2003, Milwaukee Bucks teammates Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey were charged with beating up a male exotic dancer outside of a Toronto night club. Nearly four years later this past February the case was finally dismissed, despite the fact the fact the presiding judge admitted that he believed Payton started the whole thing. From the National Post:

Mr. Justice William Bassel said he believed that former Milwaukee Bucks player Gary Payton instigated the fight outside For Your Eyes Only strip club on April 11, 2003, after Adrian Cimpean's girlfriend, exotic dancer Vida Asante, spurned his advances.

Mr. Payton, 38, along with teammates Sam Cassell, 36, and Jason Caffey, 33, were each charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm.

But Judge Basel questioned the severity of Mr. Cimpean's injuries and his claim to be an innocent party after he picked up his now wife at the King St. West club, where she worked as a dancer.

Ms. Asante's recollection of that night was also full of contradictions, Judge Bassel said.

"[They] all lead to my having some serious overall concerns about this case," the judge told an Old City Hall courtroom. "I'm left in a state of reasonable doubt as to what happened that night."

TrueHoop had more details of the trial, including some of Sam Cassell's testimony from last July. What's a guy to do when the courts can't help? Turn to the internet, apparently. Cimpean and Asante are determined not to let this incident simply disappear, going so far as to produce the following re-enactment (as well as additional descriptions of the night's events), narrated by a grizzled New York detective, no less. Make of it what you will, but it sounds like if these two had their stories this straight from the get-go the courts would have been a bit more friendly to their plight (Warning: the following includes some NSFW language):

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-13-2007 @ 6:31AM

Ted from Hyannis Port said...

When Gary Payton announces his presence at the strip club, hos better recognize.

4-13-2007 @ 7:46AM

DM said...

This is nothing really, Kobe got away with his, so this is nothing. Nice acting by the actors by the way, where they nominated or something?

4-13-2007 @ 9:52AM

Zeke Mowatt said...

Did anyone else notice that stripper's outfit? Remind me... NEVER EVER go to that strip bar!

4-14-2007 @ 5:04AM

Micaroni said...

This is racist propaganda. Gary Payton and Sam Cassell are not physically imposing. Jason Caffey was an undersized power forward. He is above average size. Describing them as hulking is insulting. I am glad the couple did not receive a dime.

4-13-2007 @ 5:48PM

The U will be BACK! said...

To poster #2:

Eat shit and die!

Kobe was accused by some trashy whore who could not get her story straight, and who screwed two other guys by the time she had her rape kit...

People always want to keep the Kobe rape case on and going. You pricks are just SO heated that those charges were dropped, even when there is a story that in NOW WAY relates to Kobe, someone wants to keep it going.

And about the video. This whole thing is a meager attempt at fame. Too bad they are about 3 years too early. Had this happened a few months ago they might be in the money. Too bad they missed the anti-NBA/NFL movement.

4-15-2007 @ 6:48PM

Spanky said...

To #5:

He may not look big when surrounded by other NBA players on your TV screen, but as a man of above average height and having seen Gary Payton several times in the store I worked at I can tell you that he is pretty physically imposing in person.

4-15-2007 @ 12:01PM

Gary said...

Do You know who the Glove is not only can I steal a basketball I can kick your butt and punch your girl in the mouth and get away with it. Next time I tell her to come to my hotel room dont make me get Shaq to show you what imposing is lmao