Shannon Sharpe to move away from ESPN obligations in the middle of the current lawsuit

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Note from the publisher: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts.

Shannon Sharpe said that he would temporarily take his role in ESPN after being sued for assault, sexual assault, battery and sexual battery. He denies the accusations in the lawsuit, which was submitted on Sunday by an anonymous woman and her lawyers.

Sharpe plays an outstanding role in the Morning Sports Debate Show “First Take” by ESPN.

“This time I will devote my family to and answer these wrong and disruptive accusations against me and deal with it. I plan to return to ESPN at the beginning of the NFL pre -season,” said Sharpe in a statement published on Thursday.

The Pro Football Hall of Fam with his “family, fans, friends and colleagues” closed for their support.

According to Sharpe’s announcement, ESPN said in a statement: “This is a serious situation and we agree with Shannon’s decision to leave.”

The legal representatives of Sharpe previously reported CNN that the lawsuit was an attempt to “shake” the popular podcaster for millions of dollars, and said that he “categorically denied all accusations for forced or misconduct”.

In the lawsuit in a district court in Las Vegas, “Jane Doe” accuses the popular host of the “Club Shay Shay” podcast to “manipulate and control” the plaintiff during an almost two -year period of time, which began in 2023 as a mutual relationship when the woman was 20 years old.

In the civil complaint, Sharpe, 56, “in October 2024 and again in January this year in Las Vegas, Nevada,” violently attacked and raped anal “and ignores your inquiries about him.

The lawsuit states: “After many months of manipulation and control of the plaintiff – a woman who, more than thirty years younger than him – threatened to brutally suffocate and beat her violently, refused to accept the answer, and raped the plaintiff, despite her sobbing and repeated writing drivers from ‘No.

When asked whether Jane Doe contacted the police during or after the alleged attacks, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee said that he could not comment.

The lawyer told CNN: “It takes a lot of courage to disrupt those with power, fame and money. I look forward to urging this case to go to court.”

Sharpe’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, said the woman trying to blackmail his client, and that the couple’s relationship is mutually acceptable and “sexual in nature – and in many cases initiated by her with specific and graphic inquiries”.

Davis said Sharpe “is looking forward to justification through a proper procedure and a judgment based on the facts and the law.”

The complaint applies for compensation and penalty loss of more than 50 million US dollars.

The Pro Football Hall of Fam was recorded as part of the 2011 class. He was designed in 1990 by the Denver Broncos and after the 2003 season as the leader of the NFL in catches, yards and touchdowns after a close end.

Sharpe won two super bowls with Denver and then another, while a member of the Baltimore Ravens.