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As Reported in Chicago Business News Feb 1, 2008:

(Crain’s) — Michael Jordan is suing a Pennsylvania woman who says she was his mistress, asking a court to stop the woman from what he alleges is harassment.

In a complaint filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania’s Crawford County civil court, Mr. Jordan says that in June 2004, Lisa Miceli filed a complaint against Mr. Jordan to establish his paternity to her son, Dante Michael Miceli, and to require the basketball star to provide child support.

“Knowing that there was no basis whatsoever for Miceli’s allegation of paternity, Jordan immediately agreed to genetic testing,” the complaint says.

Tests proved Mr. Jordan is not the father, but Ms. Miceli pursued another genetic test, according to the lawsuit. She and Mr. Jordan then came to an agreement that if the new test confirmed he was not the father, she would drop the case and end any contact with him, the complaint says.

The second test also proved Mr. Jordan did not father the child. The case was withdrawn in July 2005, but court papers say Ms. Miceli violated the agreement by sending nearly 400 e-mails and notes to Mr. Jordan and his representatives, he alleges.

The content of her e-mails, notes and telephone calls “clearly demonstrates that she is seriously disturbed,” says the complaint.

Ms. Miceli publishes a blog in which she writes about what she says was her relationship with Mr. Jordan, detailing phone conversations and lashing out at his representatives.

Neither Mr. Jordan’s attorneys nor Ms. Miceli returned calls.

This isn’t the first time Mr. Jordan has been in court dealing with paternity issues.

An Indianapolis woman in 2003 alleged that Mr. Jordan made financial promises to her when she was pregnant with a child she alleged was his. Paternity tests showed he wasn’t the father.

In December, the Appellate Court of Illinois supported a lower court’s decision that the woman had no grounds to sue Mr. Jordan for money.

As reported in the Chicago Daily Tribune, a state Appellate Court ruled in favor of Michael Jordan in his dispute with former lover, Karla Knafel who contends that the retired superstar owes her $5 million.

Knafel contends that Jordan promised her the money for remaining silent and agreeing not to file a paternity suit after she learned she was pregnant in 1991.

Jordan denied making the promise and sued Knafel in 2002. A DNA Paternity test later showed that Jordan was not the father of the child.

The 1st District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled that even if Jordan made the agreement, the deal was unenforceable because Knafel had misled him about whether he was the child’s father. The ruling affirmed a trial judge’s decision last year.

Knafel’s lawyer Blake Hannafan said Wednesday that he was surprised by the decision and will ask the Illinois Supreme Court to review the case.