Exclusive, updated with more details: Shannon Sharpe will certainly not come back to Espn First catch Next week.
With allegations of rape, a trial of $ 50 million and a derailed dollars colony surrounding the NFL Hall of Farmer, the jimmy Pitaro cable sports exit decided from Sharpe bench since its regular niche on Monday and Tuesday at the Stephen A. Smith Smith Show, I hear.
Whether or not Sharpe returns to First catch In the following weeks, the TBD is apparently.
Currently, ESPN belonging to Disney intends to “investigate more in -depth”, according to a business source, the Jane Doe affirms in the trial and insistence of Sharpe that it is a “shakedown” and the relationship was not traditional but consensual. Unsurprisingly, the revelation of April 22 by Sharpe’s own lawyer, Lanny Davis, that the Nightcap The co-host of the Podcast proposed to write to its accuser a check for $ 10 million to keep this on the bottom also “raised concerns” in ESPN.
ESPN had no comments on the drop in Sharpe First catch Next week. Sharpe’s lawyer, Davis, did not respond to the request for comments on ESPN’s decision.
(Update, 12:04 pm: A few minutes after Deadline published her story, Sharpe posted online that he “chose to temporarily withdraw from my ESPN functions”. Shortly after, a spokesperson for the ESPN told Deadline: “This is a serious situation, and we agree with Shannon’s decision to keep us away.”)
In an explicitly detailed trial brought in Nevada on April 20, Jane Doe, now 21, says that Sharpe, 56, raped her and abused her twice in Las Vegas in the past year during a relationship. The couple both admitted that they started their relationship after meeting a gymnasium in Los Angeles in 2023. Seeking $ 50 million in damages of the three-time winner of the Super Bowl and a very successful diffusion, the civil complaint alleges assault, sexual assault, battery and sexual battery, as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress.
“After several months of manipulation and control of the applicant – a woman more than thirty years younger than him – and threatening several times to suffocate brutally and to slap it violently, Sharpe refused to accept the response no and raped the plaintiff, despite his sobting and repeated cries of` `non”, the statements of 13 pages.
Jane Doe was appointed publicly online by former Bill Clinton Confident Davis shortly after the continuation of the prosecution in the Disy City State Court file. Similar to many media, Deadline does not identify the accusers and survivors of sexual assault unless they are called. On April 21, Davis also published a plethora of very raw text messages which would have been sent by Doe Shay Shay club Boss Sharpe in the months which were intended to paint “a clear image” of a “consensual and adult relationship which included role -playing games, sexual language and fantastic scenarios requested” by the applicant.
The plaintiff Jane Doe is represented by Tony Buzbee, based in Houston, who has dozens of prosecution against the assault and abuse against Sean “Diddy”.
In a Missive Video published earlier Tuesday, Sharpe directly attacked Buzbee’s credibility and promised to file a defamation complaint against the lawyer certainly aggressive and the Only Jane Doe posting. This prosecution has apparently not been filed to date, but it is expected the next day.
Currently, fighting a legal action by Jay-Z on a rape affair which has now been self-destiny which accused the superstar of rap and the very accused of Sean “Diddy” painted of having attacked a 13-year-old child in 2000, Buzbee confirmed on April 22 that this Jane Doe was “offered $ 10 million to settle but rejected this offer, by choosing to proceed.
Buzbee continued saying: Sharpe’s team is now trying to discredit and dox. Sharpe and his team are now, as expected, also attacks me. We are not going to be dissuaded by these tactics. “To this, Buzbee released an audio cassette on April 22 of a man who looks very much like Sharpe threatening” I will serve you if I see you “.
Before the potential news of $ 10 million was published, Stephen A. Smith spoke of allegations against his self -proclaimed friend and allegations from April 22 and April 22 First catch colleague. Weighing the problems involved and putting Buzbee in a certain context, Smith had no answer on Sharpe First catch future. “I can tell you that I also spoke to the co -president of Disney, the boss, Jimmy Pitaro, who has shown very, very clear that ESPN takes this question very seriously and we examine this very, very closely and once we have gathered as many facts as possible, we will go from there,” said Smith.
Even with this, about to conclude a new nine -figure agreement now that its contract of approximately $ 100 million with Podcast Network that the volume is finished, Sharpe has remained a lot in the eyes of the public since the trial and its graphic details were released. In addition to the appearance on his own podcasts and First catch Earlier this week, the ex-driver Bronco End Sharpe will be at the draft of the NFL today in Wisconsin.
As NightcapInstagram flow was noted before the continuation of rape:
Airée sur ESPN, ABC and the NFL network, the first round of the NFL 2025 draft starts today at 5 p.m. PT / 8 H HE from Field Lambeau, Green Bay, Wisconsin. It will also be broadcast on ESPN +, NFL +, Hulu +and YouTube TV. Tours 2 and 3 will be broadcast on April 25 with other towers 4 to 7 on April 27 at noon.
