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Former NFL player and popular sports media personality Shannon Sharpe is being sued for sexual assault.
A 13-page lawsuit filed Sunday in Nevada alleges that Sharpe committed assault, sexual assault, battery, and sexual battery, and that he “engaged in the intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
The woman who filed the suit, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges that she was in an abusive relationship with Sharpe that lasted for several years.
Shannon Sharpe faces wide array of allegations
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Doe met Sharpe in 2023 at a gym in Los Angeles.
She was in her twenties at the time, and Sharpe was in his mid-fifties. She explained that Sharpe promised he would “buy her fake t–s” if she won a weight loss competition with him.
Doe says she entered a consensual relationship with Sharpe, but it quickly became abusive.
“He demanded complete control over her time and body,” attorney Tony Buzbee wrote in the suit filed by Doe, “expecting her to be at his house on his schedule, at his command, whenever he called.”
Accuser claims abuse escalated rapidly
Doe says Sharpe sexually assaulted her on two occasions. The first alleged incident occurred when she attempted to break things off with Sharpe after he accidentally live-streamed himself having sex with another women.
Doe claims Sharpe flew into a rage and forced himself on her “while she was crying and sobbing.”
The second alleged incident occurred a few weeks later in January of 2025. Doe claims that Sharpe arrived at her home with the promise of dropping off belated Christmas presents but wound up raping her.
She says there were other incidents involving threats of violence, including one altercation in which Sharpe yelled at her while a firearm was in plain sight.
Accuser claims abuse escalated rapidly
Doe says Sharpe sexually assaulted her on two occasions. The first alleged incident occurred when she attempted to break things off with Sharpe after he accidentally live-streamed himself having sex with another women.
Doe claims Sharpe flew into a rage and forced himself on her “while she was crying and sobbing.”
The second alleged incident occurred a few weeks later in January of 2025. Doe claims that Sharpe arrived at her home with the promise of dropping off belated Christmas presents but wound up raping her.
She says there were other incidents involving threats of violence, including one altercation in which Sharpe yelled at her while a firearm was in plain sight.
