Billups was charged in mid-December 1992 for, according to the Associated Press"allegedly raping a woman, videotaping the ordeal and threatening to show the tape to the victim's husband is she didn't pay $20,000, police said." He pleaded no contest to reduced chargers of criminal conspiracy and sentenced to three years probation. Billups was soon after charged for making threats against Rex Chapman, formerly of the Washington Bullets. Chapman's sister, who was dating Billups, testified that he threatened to break her brother's knees and that Billups had hit, slapped and choked her.