Woman accuses Shannon Sharpe of sexual assault in lawsuit

A woman accused Pro Football Hall of Famer and podcaster Shannon Sharpe of sexually assaulting and battering her and using his fame to "manipulate, control, subjugate and violate women" in a Nevada lawsuit filed Sunday.

A woman accused Pro Football Hall of Famer and podcaster Shannon Sharpe of sexually assaulting and battering her and using his fame to "manipulate, control, subjugate and violate women" in a Nevada lawsuit filed Sunday.

The woman said she was 19 years old in 2023 when she first met Sharpe, 56, in a Los Angeles gym, leading to a "rocky consensual relationship" of nearly two years in which he was frequently "aggressive" and raped her, the civil complaint, filed in state court in Clark County, alleges.

The plaintiff accused Sharpe of failing to stop his actions despite her saying "no," according to the complaint.

"After many months of manipulating and controlling Plaintiff — a woman more than thirty years younger than he — and repeatedly threatening to brutally choke and violently slap her, Sharpe refused to accept the answer no and raped Plaintiff, despite her sobbing and repeated screams of 'no,'" the complaint alleges.

The plaintiff accused Sharpe of twice raping her in Las Vegas in October — ignoring her requests for him to stop — and of doing so again in January, according to the suit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-accuses-shannon-sharpe-sexual-assault-lawsuit-rcna202262

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