Shannon Sharpe lawyers and his rape accuser confirm that Take’s first co-host this year offered to pay $ 10 million to make the allegations disappear, but the former NFL player also says that everything is just “a shakedown”.
Perhaps, but it also seems to be a contradiction in terms – to say it politely.
In an extremely graphic legal action deposited in Nevada on April 20, Jane Doe says that Sharpe, 56, attacked her sexually on several occasions during a relationship they had that started in a gymnasium in Los An “Diddy” Cambbs.
By requesting a trial before jury, the Jane Doe requests $ 50 million in damages.
No stranger to the controversy himself, and currently in a bitter battle with Jay-Z on a rape affair now dismissed involving the rapper and Combs of 99 problems, Buzbee went to social networks Tuesday to become very specific in the name of his client while the veterinarian of the NFL Sharpe and his team attacked his credibility.
“On the one hand, Mr. Sharpe and his lawyers claim that the case deposited by Jane Doe is without merit, but on the other hand, they have now revealed that Mr. Sharpe offered Jane Doe 10 million dollars in writing so as not to file his trial,” said Buzbee on Instagram this afternoon. “This is a real statement. Jane Doe actually offered $ 10 million to settle but rejected this offer, rather choosing to make disputes. The Sharpe team is now trying to discredit and the Dox. Sharpe and his team are now, as anticipated, also attaching me. We are not going to be dissuaded by these tactics.”
Sharpe and his team denied allegations and stated that rape, suffocation incidents and more in the 13 -page civil prosecution were taken out of its context and were consensual. To this, they also broke a rule of such cases of sexual violence and revealed in a blatant way the real name of the Jane Doe online.
Distant that Sharpe was “categorical” by declaring his innocence, Stephen A. Smith declared this morning on his own program what is alleged that his friend and colleague “is a sad situation”. Before the release of the figure of $ 10 million, First catch The host and producer Smith also revealed that he had spoken to the boss of ESPN (and in the future CEO of Disney) Jimmy Pitaro of the Sharpe situation and the executive told him that they “took this question very seriously and we examine this very carefully”.
In addition, before his lawyer, Lanny Davis, gave a virtual press conference on his own on Tuesday by denouncing the costume, Sharpe published an online video this morning when he said that Buzbee “targeted black men” in reference to the Combres and Jay-Z very accused. Do not approach the costume on First catch Today and called Buzbee for trying to “manipulate the media”, Sharpe also declared in his video that he would continue the Texas lawyer and the accuser (who appears on the subscription service only) for defamation in the near future.
Greatly, while stressing “my career is a question of real conversation and honesty”, ESPN and Shay Shay club The Sharpe host said nothing about this $ 10 million offer in his short video.
Sharpe’s Spin Spin Spin Spin’s lawyer later said in the day that Sharpe was aimed at paying “at least 10 million dollars” for Jane Doe’s silence.
Calling the real trial of Sin City’s state as a “big surprise” after discussions with the accuser and Buzbee, the former prisoner Clinton, Confident Davis, underlined the action calendar and a new contract of more than $ 100 million, Sharpe, is likely to conclude its agreement with the Podcast volume network. Davis said: “In my opinion, this is a classic definition of blackmail. This gives the greatest lever effect to blackmail. ” These remarks follow explicit messages that would have been sent by the DOE that Davis made public on Monday to illustrate “a clear image” of a “consensual and adult relationship which included role play, sexual language and fantastic scenarios requested explicitly” by the applicant.
Declaring that Sharpe “has chosen to mislead his lawyers and the public” in his refusals, Buzbee late Monday on Monday published a long statement prior to the virtual press conference of Davis today.
Without naming a figure at the time on this potential agreement of $ 10 million that Buzbee noted yesterday: “A little history: in early February, our office contacted Mr. Sharpe on behalf of Jane Doe and addressed the subject of a meeting. Multiple conversations have taken place. Offer to settle.
“Mr. Sharpe’s aggressive approach will rather have the opposite effect. Ms. Doe is not afraid of the truth – she rely on her,” added Buzbee. “I can’t wait to present the evidence in this case through the judicial process, where the truth has more than the desperate public rotation of a sports icon.”
The representatives of the owner of ESPN Disney did not respond to the request for comments on Sharpe and the allegation against him. Although he is not appointed defendant, Sharpe makes many appearances in a sexual battery and a pursuit in retaliation against his old Undisputed The co-host jumps Bayless and Fox Sports that a ex-insist of the now canceled program posted in January.
