Claims sicken Christian school president's wife*

    * Story Highlights
    * Suit filed by three profs who say Oral Roberts University fired
them unfairly
    * Lindsay Roberts says charges sicken her, and she's never had
extramarital sex
    * Suit also claims university gave a convicted sex offender access
to students
    * University denies that, also denies shredding evidence

(CNN) -- The wife of the president of Oral Roberts University is denying
allegations of improper behavior, saying the claims "sicken" her.

Richard Roberts and wife Lindsay appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" last
week.

Lindsay Roberts, in a statement on the university's Web site, said the
allegations against her "sicken me to my soul. ... I live my life in a
morally upright manner and throughout my marriage have never, ever
engaged in any sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage as
the accusations imply."

The suit, filed earlier this month, has drawn international attention to
the private Christian school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, founded by evangelist
Oral Roberts, father of university President Richard Roberts.

The new allegations come in an amended version of the wrongful
termination suit filed by three former professors, who say they lost
their jobs after reporting that Roberts and his family lavishly spent
school money for personal expenses.

The amended lawsuit, filed Friday, also alleges that the university gave
a "convicted sexual deviant unrestricted access to students" while the
man acted as a "mentor." The lawsuit also claims the university shredded
evidence three days after the suit was filed against the school. The
school denies both accusations in a statement on its Web site.

The new allegations involving Lindsay Roberts come in a section titled
"Scandal Vulnerability Assessment."

It says that photos show her and an underage male smoking at the
president's residence and that she "spent the night in the ORU guest
house with an underage male on nine separate occasions." It also
references 29 photos it says show her and an underage male alone in her
car, time-stamped after midnight, despite a citywide 10 p.m. curfew for
minors not with their parents.

The suit does not allege sexual behavior.

The suit says Richard Roberts "sought approval from stakeholders for
moving the underage male into the family residence," and "a longtime
maintenance employee was summarily fired so that the same underage male
companion could have his position."

In her statement, Lindsay Roberts denied all the allegations against her
in the lawsuit. "The part that grieves me the most is that these
accusations are being brought forth in so many areas and being seen and
heard through the media when the parties suing have continued to say
they don't even know if these allegations are true," she said. "I
believe it's grossly unfair to allow such speculation to be used against
me and attached to a lawsuit in which I am not even named as a party."

Other allegations in the amended version of the lawsuit are in a section
accusing the ORU board of negligence. It says that this past summer, the
Board of Regents allowed the president and the school "to give a
convicted sexual deviant unrestricted access to the students of the
university." The man had previously "confessed to crimes" in courts in
Tulsa and the surrounding area and was convicted, the suit says.

"In one of these convictions, this 'Mentor' for ORU students --
reportedly hired at the direct personal instruction, and under the
direct supervision of President Richard Roberts -- confessed to the
facts regarding exposing himself to a 15-year-old boy in a school locker
room," the suit says.

It also says three days after the initial lawsuit was filed on October
2, the board allowed ORU and Roberts to fire the school's financial
comptroller after 26 years of service. Within hours, "voluminous
materials and documents were shredded and destroyed, constituting
spoilation of evidence," according to witnesses, the suit says.

Beyond the online posting, university officials did not immediately
reply to a request for comment Monday by CNN.

The suit was filed by John Swails, Tim Brooker and Paulita Brooker, who
accuse Richard and Lindsay Roberts of treating school funds like their
own bank account, using them for home renovations, expensive vacations
and clothes -- allegations the Robertses and the school have previously
denied.

After complaining to the school's Board of Regents about university
spending, two of the professors were fired from their jobs and the third
was thrown into conditions "so intolerable" that he had no choice but to
resign, the lawsuit says.

One of the firings, the suit says, was also in retaliation for the
plaintiff refusing to drop a sexual harassment complaint that one of his
subordinates made against an associate provost, who is named as a defendant.

The suit calls for actual damages "in excess of $10,000" and punitive
damages also "in excess of $10,000" for each plaintiff, as well as
attorneys' fees, court costs, "and any further relief that the court
deems just an equitable."

In an interview last week on CNN's "Larry King Live," before the latest
allegations were added to the suit, Richard Roberts called it "the most
unusual thing I've ever witnessed in my life." Asked whether someone is
out to get him, he responded, "It sure seems that way." Lindsay Roberts
called the allegations "preposterous."

The three plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit, meanwhile, accuse school
officials of making libelous public remarks about them in an effort to
discredit the lawsuit.