Shannon Sharpes lawyer releases trove of explicit texts allegedly showing accuser asking to be abused
The attorney representing Shannon Sharpe against a $50 million lawsuit alleging the football Hall of Famer raped a woman released hundreds of text communications between Sharpe and the purported victim on Tuesday. The complaint, filed Sunday in Nevada state court, claims Sharpe assaulted, sexually assaulted, committed battery, sexual battery and had intentionally inflicted emotional distress during the nearly two-year relationship.Sharpe described the lawsuit as a “shakedown” in a recorded statement released Tuesday, and his lawyer, Lanny J.Davis, released text exchanges that he described as showing “a pattern of sexual role-playing that specifically includes her being choked by him.”In one text that was released, the alleged victim, who was named by Sharpe’s legal team but is not being identified by The Post, wrote in a message on June 14, 2024, “i wanna be abused daddy.” In a separate text on July 6, 2024, the woman wrote to Sharpe, “i want u to tie me up like this and abuse me daddy” accompanied by an explicit image of a male and female performing an intimate act. She also texted the ESPN personality using handcuffs on several occasions and sent Sharpe several sexually explicit images involving the use of handcuffs. “I want like some hardcore bdsm action tho,” the alleged victim texted Sharpe on Jan.
31, 2024.The messages came on the heels of several texts shared by Sharpe’s team on Monday in which she asked Sharpe to to “put a dog collar around my neck” and “tie me up and do bad things to me.”The text release and a Tuesday press conference by Sharpe’s lawyer were part of an attempt to publicly push back on the allegations made in the lawsuit. Davis told reporters during the virtual press conference that Sharpe had been willing to pay the woman, at least 30 years younger than the ex-NFL star, “at least $10 million” to settle the lawsuit, but she instead opted to take “advantage” of a “very lucrative” contract fo...