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Shannon Sharpe has found himself in a very publicized civil battle after he was accused of sexual aggression this week.
The member of the soccer hall turned into a national television star was accused of assault, sexual assault, aggression and sexual assault. He was also accused of participating “in the intentional infiction of emotional anguish”, with his accuser who seeks $ 50 million in damages.
The situation has already become extremely ugly, with Sharpe calling the accusations a “Shakedown” while he and his legal team released sexually explicit messages that the woman had supposedly sent him over time. The woman is being represented by Tony Buzbee, who represented two dozen of the women who accused Deshaun Watson of sexual assault, all but one of those cases reached an agreement.
Buzbee also represented the woman who accused Jay-Z and Diddy of Assault when she was only 13 years old: the charges were retired and Jay-Z is now demanding the woman already Buzbee.
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The hosts of ESPN First Take, Molly Qerim, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Cam Newton, in the CFP Central CFP at the center of George World Congress. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
Sharpe is now a guest host in “First Take” of ESPN, and the Pilar in Stephen A. Smith broke the silence about the “sad situation” that his “friend” is now.
“We have approached as friends. He certainly supports him. I know he has gone through a lot in life, he has overcome many things, and when he left Fox, he was more than happy to bring him here. So everything I can talk about is what I know based on the reports, and I can speak and Disney,” Smith said in his own vector, and added that ESPN was “conscious.” I would talk about Sharpe.
Smith said he also spoke with Sharpe, who “emphatically proclaims his innocence.” Smith is “hopeful and prayed that she is completely innocent”, but he did not remain without saying it, and also criticized Sharpe's response to the accusations.
“On the one hand, going to the offensive to defend itself, I completely understand where Shannon Sharpe comes from. On the other hand, when his legal team issued the press release in X yesterday, they mentioned their name and revealed some of those explicit text messages, that was uncomfortable, and I don't know if that is a strategy that would work,” said Smith. “One of the most difficult things in the world for all of us is simply to stay low and shut up and let our legal team do it. And we don't always know if that is the right thing.
Shannon Sharpe speaks on stage during the Renderatl 2024 Technology Conference in Appealmart Atlanta on June 14, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Griffin/Getty Images Paras)
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“I know, and I can tell you everything I talked to Shannon, not in details, but I talked to him, and he emphatically proclaims his innocence. According to Mr. Buzbee, his client emphatically proclaims his fault. So where does that leave us?
Smith added that he does not know what the final result will be in terms of Sharpe's employment in ESPN or “First Toma”, but Smith said after talking with ESPN's president, Jimmy Pitaro, Pitaro “left this matter very seriously, and we are looking for this very, very closely. And once we gather as many data as possible, we go from there.”
“In my perfect world, this is equivalent to Jay-Z, where the case finally fell, and Shannon is allowed to continue” first take “and prosper and shine and have an illustrious career in the stratosphere of podcast … In my perfect world, he moves. And in some way, in some way, we find that all this is false. Customer either and be a client, and what emphasizes, and what is, and what it is, and what it is, and what is, and that is what is right and she is telling the truth.
“I hope that all this is a terrible experience that disappears because there was no truth, but I don't know. Neither you nor the rest of us. Only time will tell what the truth is.”
Sharpe's lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, said that the release of explicit messages between the plaintiff and the 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 applications.”
The complaint accused Sharpe of “manipulating and controlling the plaintiff” and threats of violence against her.
February 7, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; The former NFL player Shannon Sharpe attends the game between Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder at Crypto.com Arena. (Gary A. Vasquez-USA Today Sports)
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“A woman can say 'yes' to consensual sex with a man ninety -nine times, but when he says' no once,' no 'means no,” reads the complaint, through ProfootballTalk reports. “The defendant Shannon Sharpe, a man who is accustomed to obtaining what he wants, does not completely understand this basic concept. After many months of manipulating and controlling the plaintiff, a woman more than thirty years younger than him, and repeatedly that he brutally strangles and violated him violently, Sharpe refused to accept the plaintiff of response and violated, despite his weld No.
Sharpe said that Buzbee, who “points to black men,” “will also launch a 30 -second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me seem guilty and reproduce in each stereotype you can imagine.” Buzbee confirmed that “an incredible condemnatory video really exists” that “speaks[s] Volumes on Mr. Sharpe and his behavior. “
Sharpe's lawyers admitted that the old wing closed previously offered the woman an agreement of around $ 10 million, but she declined.
Paulina deja de Fox News contributed to this report.
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