Shannon Sharpe allegedly provided his rape accuser $10 million to settle earlier than she filed her $50 million lawsuit.
Attorneys for either side agree that Sharpe and the girl, who filed her go well with as Jane Doe, entered into mediation to attempt to resolve the difficulty.
Lanny Davis, who presently represents Sharpe, claimed to Entrance Workplace Sports activities on Tuesday that Doe “demanded tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} … in return for her not publishing” a intercourse tape that either side agree exists.
Nevertheless, Doe’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, informed Web page Six that Sharpe provided his consumer $10 million, however she “rejected that supply to settle and determined to file go well with” on Sunday.
Buzbee claimed, “Again in early February, our workplace contacted Mr. Sharpe on behalf of Jane Doe and broached the topic of a gathering. A number of conversations came about. In the end, a mediation occurred.”
Based on Buzbee, Sharpe, 56, “was represented by completely different attorneys in that mediation. That mediation course of went on for greater than six weeks, in the end resulting in Mr. Sharpe making an extremely vital provide to settle.”
Nevertheless, Doe allegedly “refused the hefty sum provided by Sharpe and as an alternative filed this case.”
Davis has not but responded to Web page Six’s request for remark. Additional particulars from mediation conversations, if any, are unknown.
In her lawsuit, Doe alleged that Sharpe “violently sexually assaulted and anally raped” her two completely different occasions in Las Vegas on Oct. 6, 2024, “blatantly ignoring her requests for him to cease.” He allegedly “did it once more” on Jan. 2.
Within the court docket submitting, Doe claimed she met the NFL player-turned-broadcaster at a Los Angeles gymnasium in 2023 when she was 20. She claimed they started a consensual relationship that allegedly turned controlling and abusive.
After Sharpe “categorically” denied all of her allegations of “coercion and misconduct, particularly the gross lie of ‘rape,’” his authorized crew launched quite a few specific textual content exchanges he allegedly had with Doe from March 2023 to January 2025.
Buzbee argued that “each textual content that Mr. Sharpe’s counsel launched … purportedly from Jane Doe are dated PRIOR to the alleged brutal assault set forth in Jane Doe’s case.”
He then launched an audio clip through which a person he alleged to be Sharpe is heard telling a girl he alleged to be Doe that he “will f–king choke the s–t out of” her the subsequent time he sees her.
When the girl says she doesn’t need to be choked, the person responds, “Sure, you do. I don’t assume you’ve a alternative within the matter.”
Buzbee argued that “the contents of this clip are actually not sexual. They don’t seem to be playful. They’re as an alternative disturbing, aggressive and harmful. This audio paints a really clear image of how Sharpe handled Jane Doe, main her to flee from him by leaving Nevada and blocking all contact with him.”
The previous tight finish responded by posting an Instagram video through which he named Doe and outed her as an alleged OnlyFans creator.
He additionally known as the lawsuit a “shakedown” and accused Buzbee of concentrating on black males.
Sharpe went on to say that he believes Buzbee will likely be releasing a “30-second clip of a intercourse tape that tries to make [him] look responsible and play into each stereotype [one] might probably think about.”
Based on Sharpe, the alleged video “ought to truly be 10 minutes or so.”
Talking on to Buzbee, the Corridor of Famer urged, “Hey, Tony, as an alternative of releasing your edit, put the entire video out. I don’t have it, or I’d myself. You recognize what occurred, and also you’re attempting to govern the media.”
He additionally claimed that the “encounter in query came about in the course of the day at [Doe’s] invitation,” which he now believes was “a deliberate setup coordinated by” her.
Buzbee known as the declare “demonstrably false” and “determined.”
“Though Jane Doe by no means referenced any video or a number of audios that she possesses within the lawsuit that she filed, now that Mr. Sharpe’s lawyer has determined to broach that topic, we’ll tackle it,” he mentioned, including that “an extremely damning video does certainly exist.”
Based on Buzbee, “the contents of that video communicate volumes about Mr. Sharpe and his conduct. That video, which will likely be performed to the jury, is extraordinarily problematic for Mr. Sharpe.”
Buzbee believes the “Membership Shay Shay” podcast host “disclosed the existence of this video in an effort to try to get forward of it,” insisting that “that effort will fall flat.”
In case you or somebody you realize is affected by any of the problems on this story, name the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
