denied the allegations from the recent filings<\/a> in an episode of his self-titled podcast, claimed he had evidence to prove \u201calleged misrepresentations\u201d and previously called the other three allegations while at Columbia \u201cB.S.\u201d<\/p>\nIn the April filings and allegations, two of the women said that Wiley sexually assaulted them between 1995 and 1999, according to Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n
Marcellus Wiley is pictured during a September 2002 game. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Another woman alleged that Wiley groomed her from when she was 13 years old \u2014 while Wiley played for the Bills \u2014 following a visit to her middle school and raped her when she turned 18, when Wiley, then a member of the Cowboys, flew her to Dallas, according to Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13,\u201d the victim wrote, while alleging that Wiley brought her to his home to clean his CD collection and referred to her as his \u201clittle momma.\u201d \u201cIf Columbia had properly pursued the complaints\u2026 I would never have been groomed and raped.\u201d<\/p>\n
A fourth woman, who was a former production assistant at ESPN, alleged that Wiley deceived her about coming to his hotel room for a work meeting in 2009 and sexually assaulted her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marcellus Wiley is pictured in February 2004. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe assault was devastating to me,\u201d the fourth woman wrote in a court filing, according to Rolling Stone, \u201cand I will live with the effects to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bills drafted Wiley in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft, and he spent four years in Buffalo before also playing for the Chargers, Cowboys and Jaguars.<\/p>\n
He made the lone Pro Bowl of his career in 2001 while in San Diego, and after shifting into broadcasting, Wiley worked at ESPN until 2018 and Fox Sports until 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL Pro Bowler and sports broadcaster Marcellus Wiley was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3283,9,11,10,22,319,2085,6475],"class_list":["post-287557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-arrests","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}