Woman Says Letter Warned Magic Johnson Told He Had Aids Virus Two Months Before Doctor Knew

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | November 1992 | Frank Deford

[SoFloFreeper]

Last year, Magic Johnson found out that he had the virus that causes AIDS in his body...

...hounded by a new wave of rumors that he must be bisexual, fearing the rejection of NBA players and aware that a $2 million lawsuit from a onetime lover that accuses him of giving her HIV was sure to burst public, Johnson last week rescinded his decision to return to the Los Angeles Lakers....

Of all the turmoil that drove Johnson back out of basketball, it is the grievous lawsuit in Michigan filed by a woman called only Jane Doe that threatens most to damage the reputation of the man who has probably become the athlete most famous -- and most beloved -- in all the world.

Newsweek has obtained a copy of the poignant letter that the woman claims she wrote to Johnson on Aug.29, 1991, which accuses Johnson of infecting her.

The letter is dated eight weeks before a life-insurance test revealed that he had contracted the virus and only two weeks before he went ahead and married his longtime sweetheart, Cookie.

[GeronL]

tax dollars at work encouraging felonies

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe he got it from sharing steroids needles...