The woman alleging that the former big and personality of the NFL ESPN, Shannon Sharpe, raped her confronted her in an exchange of text earlier this year.
The woman sent a text to Sharpe – according to a mine of messages released to the media by Sharpe’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis – on January 2 that “no no means” and that she did not know how to “treat” the situation.
“But I cried when you left because I begged you to put a condom and not put it in my ass and you did not listen,” sent a text to the woman, who was appointed by the Sharpe legal team but who is not identified by the post, sent him a text.
“I don’t care what our history is, no one means Shannon.”
The text was followed by the message on the treatment of what happened, what led to Sharpe to ask him if he could “call you later?”
It was not clear from the changes of text published, if they discussed what had happened on the phone.
Sharpe faces a legal action of $ 50 million alleging that he had raped the woman, supposed to be in their twenties, twice in October 2024 and January 2025.
The trial claims that Sharpe threatened to kill the woman on several occasions, “manipulated and controlled” and “threatened repeatedly to suffocate brutally and to slap her violently”.
The trial also described things between the two as a “rock consensus relationship” and said that Sharpe had attacked, sexually assaulted and committed a sexual battery and had intentionally inflicted emotional distress during the relationship.
Davis described the hundreds of text messages published Tuesday as showing “a sexual game model that specifically includes its suffocating by (Sharpe)”.
The alleged victim’s lawyer Tony Buzbee also published a statement to the New York Times on Tuesday.
“I can’t wait to present the evidence in this case through the judicial process, where the truth is more important than the desperate public rotation of a sports icon,” he said.
Sharpe denied allegations.
ESPN told post that he had “no comments” on the situation on Monday.
