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Shannon Sharpe found himself in a very publicized civil battle after being accused of sexual assault this week.
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”, its accuser requesting $ 50 million in damages.
The situation has already become extremely ugly, Sharpe calling the allegations of “Shakedown” while he and his legal team have published sexually explicit messages that the woman had sent her over time. The woman is represented by Tony Buzbee, who represented two dozen women who accused Deshaun Watson of sexual assault – all cases except one of these cases came to a regulation.
Buzbee also represented the woman who accused Jay-Z and Diddy d’Assaut when she was only 13 years old-the charges were abandoned, and Jay-Z now continues the woman and Buzbee.
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The ESPN hosts first take Molly Qerim, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Cam Newton, at CFP Fan central at the George World Congress Center. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
Sharpe is now a guest host on ESPN “First Take”, and Stephen A. Smith’s pillar has broken the “sad situation” that his “friend” is now.
“We have become close as an older. I am certainly rooted for him. I know that he has gone through a lot of things in life, he overcome a lot of things, and when he started from Fox, I was more than happy to involve it here. So, all I can talk about is what I know on the basis of reports, and I can talk about ESPN and Disney,” said Smith on his own podcast, was “aware” that he spoke of Sharp.
Smith said that he had also spoken with Sharpe, who “categorically proclaims his innocence”. Smith is “full of hope and praying that it is completely innocent”, but has stopped saying it itself, and also criticized Sharpe’s response to allegations.
“On the one hand, by going to the offensive to defend himself, I fully understand where Shannon Sharpe comes from. On the other hand, when his legal team published the press release on X yesterday, they mentioned his name and revealed some of these explicit text messages, which was uncomfortable, and I do not know if it was a strategy that would work,” said Smith. “One of the most difficult things in the world for all of us to do is to lie down and be silent and let our legal team do it. And we don’t always know if it’s the right thing to do.
Shannon Sharpe speaks on stage at the Conference Renderatl Tech 2024 in Americasmart Atlanta on June 14, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Sauras Griffin / Getty Images)
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“I know, and I can tell you everything I spoke to Shannon, not in the details, but I told him, and he proclaims his innocence with force. According to Mr. Buzbee, his client categorically proclaims his guilt. So, where it leaves us? I would like to tell you that I know the answer to this question, but I don’t do it.
Smith added that he does not know what will be the end result in terms of employment from Sharpe to ESPN or on “First Take”, but Smith said after talking with the president of ESPN, Jimmy Pitaro, Pitaro “made the very clear question that we take this case very seriously, and we are going from there.”
“In my perfect world, it is equivalent to Jay-Z where the affair has finally dropped, and Shannon is authorized to continue” first “and to prosper and to shine and have an illustrious career in the podcast stratosphere … that she is right and that she tells the truth.
“I hope that all this is a sad ordeal that disappears because there was no truth, but I don’t know. You or the rest of us either. The only time will say what the truth is.”
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.
February 7, 2023; Los Angeles, California, United States; Former NFL player Shannon Sharpe is attending the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Crypto.com Arena. (Gary A. Vasquez-USa TODAY SPORTS)
“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”, indicates the complaint, via the profoootballtalk report. “The defendant Shannon Sharpe, a man who is used to obtaining what he wants, does not understand this basic concept. After many months of manipulation and control of the applicant – a woman more than thirty years younger than him – and repeatedly threatening to serve him brutally and slip it violently, Sharpe refused to accept the answer.”.
Sharpe said Buzbee, who “targets black men”, “will also publish a 30 -second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me guilty and play in all the stereotypes you might imagine.” Buzbee confirmed that “an incredible overwhelming video indeed exists” that “speaks[s] Volumes on Mr. Sharpe and his behavior. “”
Sharpe lawyers admitted that the old tight end had previously offered the woman a regulation of around $ 10 million, but she refused.
