{"id":6998,"date":"2025-07-19T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:34:07","slug":"lawyer-says-lawsuit-is-over-between-ex-nfl-star-shannon-sharpe-and-woman-who-accused-him-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6998\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer says lawsuit is over between ex-NFL star Shannon Sharpe and woman who accused him of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 NFL Hall of Fame member Shannon Sharpe has resolved a lawsuit that accused him of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nfl-shannon-sharpe-sexual-assault-lawsuit-5d921fc4131f6cada3b262e91f075e1c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sexually assaulting a woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sexually assaulting a woman<\/a> during their relationship, her attorney said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll matters have now been addressed satisfactorily, and the matter is closed. The lawsuit will thus be dismissed with prejudice,&#8221; Tony Buzbee said on X, meaning the lawsuit can&#8217;t be refiled.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>No details were released. The lawsuit had sought $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe called the allegations \u201cfalse and disruptive\u201d when the lawsuit was filed in April in Clark County, Nevada. He <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shannon-sharpe-lawsuit-espn-28c9ee3dfa9dfe708764d85c7e793530\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stepped away from work at ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">stepped away from work at ESPN<\/a> at the time but had pledged to return by the start of the NFL preseason.<\/p>\n<p>A phone message seeking comment from Sharpe&#8217;s attorney, David Chesnoff, wasn&#8217;t immediately returned Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The woman first met Sharpe at a gym in Los Angeles in 2023 when she was 20, and a nearly two-year relationship followed, according to the lawsuit. Sharpe, 57, was accused of raping the woman in October 2024 and in January.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth sides acknowledge a long-term consensual and tumultuous relationship,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cAfter protracted and respectful negotiations, I\u2019m pleased to announce that we have reached a mutually agreed upon resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe was a four-time All-Pro tight end who played on two Super Bowl-winning teams with Denver and one with Baltimore over 14 seasons from 1990 to 2003. He was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe retired as the NFL\u2019s all-time leader among tight ends in receptions (815), yards receiving (10,060) and touchdowns (62). Those records have been broken.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe has been a staple on TV and social media since retiring. He left FS1\u2019s sports debate show \u201cUndisputed\u201d in 2023 and joined ESPN soon afterward.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 NFL Hall of Fame member Shannon Sharpe has resolved a lawsuit that accused him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,7646,7648,7647,514,7645,7644,7642,82,7643],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clark-county","tag-david-chesnoff","tag-nevada","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hall-of-fame","tag-nfl-preseason","tag-shannon-sharpe","tag-sports","tag-tony-buzbee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}