The day after Shannon Sharpe launched graphic textual content messages his rape accuser allegedly despatched him to exonerate him, she additionally launched allegedly damning audio to attempt to show that he threatened, raped and sodomized her.
The plaintiff, recognized as Jane Doe and represented by famed legal professional Tony Buzbee, shared her personal textual content messages and audio that counsel that Sharpe threatened her with violence after which carried out forcible intercourse, together with anal.
The audio suggests Sharpe threatened the rape accuser
Throughout one specific telephone name in late 2024, Jane Doe recorded a telephone name with Sharpe by which she instructed him that she doesn’t need to be “manipulated.”
A person who seems like Sharpe allegedly roared, “If you happen to say that phrase another time, I’m gonna f—–g choke the s–t out of you after I see you,” in accordance with audio obtained by Individuals and a number of different shops.
After a pregnant pause, the lady instructed Sharpe she doesn’t need to be choked.
“Sure, you do,” he says. “I don’t suppose you’ve got a alternative within the …”
Sharpe, in fact, categorically denies the entire lady’s accusations that he raped her twice between November 2024 and January 2025.
Each events contend that the start was consensual
Each admit that the stability of their sexual relationship, which started after they met at a fitness center in 2023, has been consensual. Nevertheless, the complexion of the connection modified when Sharpe was caught livestreaming himself having intercourse with one other lady, which she stated humiliated her. When she allegedly started to drag again from Sharpe, the accuser stated Sharpe started a full-court press to get her again, together with sending a blizzard of textual content messages and telephone calls.
Each try their circumstances within the courtroom of public opinion
The plaintiff and Sharpe are presently attempting their case within the media. She says she needs recompense for her psychological and bodily trauma, whereas Sharpe counters by saying she is responsible of extortion makes an attempt to the tune of $50 million.
As Sharpe’s legal professional says, the sexually specific textual content messages despatched by the lady illustrate irrefutably a “broader sample of graphic, sexual communications initiated by” the accuser.
“The proof paints a transparent image: this was a consensual, grownup relationship that included role-playing, sexual language, and fantasy eventualities,” Sharpe’s legal professional Lanny Davis asserts in a press release obtained by the publication.
As a counter, the plaintiff’s legal professional Buzbee, who has attained nationwide renown for sexual lawsuits in opposition to Diddy and Jay-Z, stated the ultimate two encounters have been removed from consensual.
“The contents of this clip are definitely not sexual,” Buzbee stated within the assertion. “They don’t seem to be playful. They’re as an alternative disturbing, aggressive, and harmful.”
Buzbee continues, saying, “As an alternative of proudly owning as much as his actions, Sharpe has chosen to mislead his attorneys and the general public, and double down — this time by doxing Jane Doe, and trying to humiliate into silence this lady who’s 30 years his junior,” the assertion continued.
Sharpe’s lawyer tried to melt the general public relations blow by explaining the vow to choke the accuser was instantaneous and “within the warmth of the second,” which he didn’t intend to comply with via on.
Victims can contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline, Free, Confidential, 24/7 Help, at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.