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Shannon Sharpe does not return to ESPN after recently paid a trial with a rape accuser, a spokesman for the network at PK Press Club Digital confirmed.
The temple of fame of football became the national television star was accused of assault, sexual assault, sex and sexual injuries. He was also accused of engaging “in the intentional infliction of emotional distress”, and his accuser was Search for $ 50 million in damage.
The situation has become ugly, Sharpe calling the allegations of “Shakedown” while he and his legal team published sexually explicit messages that the woman would have sent him.
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Shannon Sharpe speaks on stage at the Renderatl Tech 2024 conference in Americasmart Atlanta on June 14, 2024 in Atlanta. (Sauras Griffin / Getty Images)
Women’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, announced earlier this month that the parties “had reached a mutually agreed resolution”, but other details were not revealed.
Sharpe joined ESPN shortly after the departure of Fox, appearing on “First Take”. He appeared for the last time in the show in April after the allegations became public.
Buzbee represented two dozen women who accused Deshaun Watson of sexual assault, and all these cases except one ended in a regulation. Buzbee also represented the woman who accused Jay-Z and Diddy d’Assaut when she was only 13 years old. These accusations have been abandoned, and Jay-Z now pursues a woman and Buzbee. Sharpe accused Buzbee of having targeted black men.
ESPN “First Take” hosts, Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe, at CFP Fan central at the George World Congress Center. (Images Kirby Lee / Imagn)
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Sharpe’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, said that the release of explicit messages between the applicant and Sharpe “clearly indicates that the nature of their relationship was of a consensual and sexual nature in many cases, initiated by it with specific and graphic demands”.
The complaint accused Sharpe of “manipulating and controlling the applicant” and threatening violence against it.
“A woman can say” yes “to consensual sexual relations with a man eighty-nine times, but when she says” no “even once, that” no “means no,” said the complaint, according to ProOotballTalk. “The defendant Shannon Sharpe, a man accustomed to getting what he wants,” does not understand this basic concept.
“After several months of manipulation and control of the applicant – a woman more than thirty years younger than him – and threatening several times to suffocate brutally and to slap it violently, Sharpe refused to accept the response no and violated the plaintiff, despite his bloody and repeated cries of” no “.” “”
Shannon Sharpe in the second quarter between the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers in Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on March 16, 2024. (Jason Parkhurst / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Sharpe lawyers admitted that the old tight end had previously offered the woman a regulation of around $ 10 million, but she refused.
