ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe is being sued for $50 million by a woman who claims the former NFL superstar raped her on “multiple occasions.”
According to TMZ, a lawsuit was filed by a Jane Doe in Nevada on Sunday and alleges that “Sharpe brutally sexually assaulted her several times at the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 — following a yearslong, abusive relationship.”
The suit notes that Sharpe met the complainant, who was 20 years old at the time, at a gym in Los Angeles back in 2023 and offered to “buy her fake t**s” if she won a weight loss competition with him.
She says he “pursued her relentlessly” over the phone, demanding she come to his mansion in Beverly Glen. They eventually got into a consensual relationship, but then Sharpe became controlling and verbally abusive.
NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe accused of sexual assault!
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Tony Buzbee is representing a Jane Doe who asserts she was sexually assaulted by Sharpe on multiple occasions, with the lastest alleged assault taking place in January of 2025. pic.twitter.com/I35ZHf1RtD
“He demanded complete control over her time and body,” attorney Tony Buzbee wrote in the suit, “expecting her to be at his house on his schedule, at his command, whenever he called.”
Doe said that there was one time they argued, and he was yelling at her while a firearm was visible in the room.
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It’s said that he threatened to kill her another time.
“Plaintiff tried sharing her location with friends from her iPhone — just in case,” documents state. “But Sharpe saw her doing this. The moment he realized what she was doing, he grabbed her by the neck and told her, ‘If you ever do that again, I will f***ing kill you.'”
Shannon Sharpe Accused Of Forcing Himself On Jane Doe After She Tried To Leave Him
The relationship between Sharpe and Jane Doe went on in spite of the above. However, the woman says Sharpe raped her after she tried breaking up with him in the wake of his infamous Instagram Live accident in which he was heard having sex with a woman supposedly named Michelle.
She claims the first such incident took place at her apartment in October 2024, with Sharpe forcing himself on her while she was “crying and sobbing.”
A second incident in January of this year saw the ESPN analyst and podcast host allegedly perform another sexual assault when he came over to her place after promising to drop off a Christmas and birthday present.
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up against those with power, fame and money,” Buzbee added. “I look forward to pressing this case in court.”
Sharpe did not respond to TMZ’s request for comment.
