BALTIMORE — Ravens kicker Justin Tucker acted inappropriately with massage therapists at four luxury spas and wellness centers around the Baltimore area, according to six therapists who spoke anonymously with The Baltimore Banner, allegations Tucker denied vehemently.

Managers from two of the spas said Tucker was banned from their establishments, The Banner reported. The accounts from the six therapists included details of Tucker “exposing his genitals, brushing two of them with his exposed penis, and leaving what they believed to be ejaculate on the massage table after three of his treatments,” The Banner reported. The alleged incidents occurred between 2012 and 2016, The Banner reported.

Tucker denied the allegations in a lengthy statement posted Thursday afternoon on X.

“The allegations in The Baltimore Banner article about me are unequivocally false,” he wrote. “Throughout my career as a professional athlete, I have always sought to conduct myself with the utmost professionalism. I have never before been accused of misconduct of any kind, and I have never been accused of acting inappropriately in front of a massage therapist or during a massage therapy session or during other bodywork. I have never received any complaints from a massage therapist, have never been dismissed from a massage therapy or bodywork session, and have never been told that I was not welcome at any spa or other place of business.”

Tucker wrote that The Banner report “takes innocuous, or ambiguous, interactions and skews them so out of proportion they are no longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations as fact. This is desperate tabloid fodder.”

A Ravens spokesman said, “We are aware of the Baltimore Banner’s story regarding Justin Tucker. We take any allegations of this nature seriously and will continue to monitor the situation.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said, “we take any allegation seriously and will look into the matter,” and that the league “first became aware of the allegations from the reporter investigating this story as they were not previously shared with the NFL.”

Tucker, 35, has been the Ravens’ kicker since 2012 and is regarded as arguably the greatest ever at his position. He’s one of the most popular players on the team and a ubiquitous television presence in Baltimore as the pitchman for Royal Farms. The New York Times Magazine and “60 Minutes” have profiled him as a record-setting athlete who sings opera in multiple languages in his downtime.

Attorneys for Tucker denied the allegations of inappropriate behavior to The Banner, calling them speculative and “impossible to prove” and saying Tucker had never been banned from the spas.

Attorneys representing four massage therapists, including one who did not speak to The Banner, said it is “empowering” for their clients’ alleged experiences to become public.

“Our clients have been afforded comfort in their experiences being investigated and heard by the public and validation in knowing that they are not alone. While it is only one step forward in the recovery process, it is important and empowering for any survivor of sexual misconduct to tell their story and to have people listen,” the attorneys, Michael Belsky and Catherine Dickinson of Baltimore-based SBWD Law, said in a statement.

Peter O’Neill, a criminal defense lawyer in Glen Burnie, said prosecuting Tucker would be difficult given the amount of time elapsed since the alleged behaviors.

While there are no constraints on when felony charges can be filed, O’Neill said the conduct described in The Banner would not rise above the level of misdemeanor assault or a fourth-degree sex offense, both of which have a one-year statute of limitations.

He added that Tucker’s notoriety and wealth present another challenge to any possible legal actions, which are “inherently problematic” because of a lack of witnesses.

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Baltimore Sun reporters Luke Parker and Brian Wacker contributed to this article.

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