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In the court documents filed in Nevada on April 20, according to NBC SportsA woman identified as "Jane Dow" accused Sharp of sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions as well as verbal threats. Sharp deny these allegations by sight, calling Jane Dow's attorney the case "shakedown", TonyThe The athlete later surpassed Jane Dow's supposed identity in a video statement.

Sharp's attorneys admit that he had previously tried to settle the claim to Jane Doe with "at least 10 million dollars" but he rejected his meditation proposal.

Continue scrolling for what you need to know about the rape case against Sharp:

Case

Sharp was accused of humiliating, sexual harassment, battery and sex battery against Sharp in a $ 1 million case filed in Navada on April 27.

The court received in the dox NBC SportsJen Doe alleged that he met Sharp at the gym in Los Angeles at the age of 20 and he was in the mid-50s. In his case, Jane Dow reminded that Sharp was proposed to offer "fake his fake T ** S purchase" with Sharp if he won a weight loss competition.

According to Jane Doe, the pair had "a rocky consent relationship" for two years, though he complained that Sharp created a deliberate sensitive mental crisis. In one of the allegations of complaint, Jane Dow Sharp sometimes accused Sharp recording their sexual activity without his consent and then showed footage to others.

The woman had extracted Sharp in their final months, accusing him of becoming more controlled in their final months, "I will kill you," when she noticed that she was trying to share her position with anxious friends.

In his court document mentioned that Jane Doe was involuntarily accusing Sharp move away from Live-streamed to make sexual intercourse With another woman on Instagram on September 2024.

Sharp has been alleged that after Jane Dow began to ignore his calls, in October 2024, a case of forcibly sexual sex happens without his consent. The woman told her court that Sharp was allegedly raped in January 2025.

His 5 -page complaint says: "A woman can say 'yes' for a sexual relationship with a man 99 times, but when he says 'no' once, 'no' does not mean 'no'.

"After many months of plaintiffs and control - a woman was thirty years older than her - and repeatedly threatened to stop her brutal breathing and to kill her with violence, Sharp refused to accept the answer, and despite the repeated shouting of 'No'.

Shannon Sharp's response

Sharp's attorney, Lanny J DavisHas been said Our weekly Monday 21 April, Jane Dow's suit "False, distortion and incorrect presentation - and it will not succeed." He "accused the woman" try to make a brutal and disguised effort to move Mr. Sharp for a few million dollars. "

Through his lawyers, Sharp denied all the allegations of the case - including "gross false of rape". "

Davis said in a statement, "He stands in the back side of the truth and is ready to fight against this false claim in court," Davis said in a statement. "He is expected to proof through a judgment based on proper process and information and law."

Davis published the text message between Jane Doe and Sharp that he said, "It was a compliant relationship that included the role of the sexual language and imagination."

Sharp later released his own video statement on Tuesday, April 22, so that he dismissed Jane Dow's case as a "shakedown".

"I am exposed, transparent and going to protect myself because it's not right," he said through Instagram.

Sharp has blamed Zen Dow's lawyer Buzobi to ordered to ordered the case as an attack on "Black Men" after her previous involvement Suit against J-Z and DDThe

"I believe she is going to reveal a 30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to show me guilty and try to play in every stereotype that you may probably imagine,” she said. "That video should actually be ten minutes or more hey hey, Tony, instead of publishing your editing, I don't have it with the whole video.

In his controversial video statement, Sharp exceeded Jane Dow's name and accused him of "deliberate setup".

Sharp threatened, "What they are getting (now) for defamation and trying to get me down," Sharp threatened. “My career is about true words and honesty.

Accordingly NBC SportsDavis later confirmed at a press conference that Sharp planned to "claim a counter" against the woman. Attorney Recognized Jane Dow had previously proposed "at least 10 million dollars" to resolve the matter before filed his case, but he rejected the proposal.

Boozbi responded through Instagram Women should be signed when they briefly entered the mediation process that Sharp had "violated" a privacy agreement by force on Tuesday.

"On the one hand, Mr. Sharp and his lawyers claimed that the case filed by Jane Dow is eligible, yet they have now revealed that Mr. Sharp Jane offered $ 1 million to file his case. This is a true statement," Written by Instagram. "Million was offered 10 million to settled Jane Does in reality, but instead chose to proceed with the litigation. Sharp's team is now trying to make him notorious and dox. Sharp and his team are now attacking me as expected. We will not be dismissed by these strategies."

Legal party Subsequently published audio Wednesday, April 23, from a planned phone call between the accused and Sharp, where Sharp threatened to "stop him in the public." Representatives of Sharp have questioned the authenticity of all the recordings published by Jane Dow's lawyers.

Response

Sharp Take ESPN first Kohost, Smith at StephenIn his time "Shannon Sharp situation" addressed "Stephen A. Smith Show" Podcast on Tuesday, called the case "a tragic situation."

"We are close as a friend." I am the key to that. "So what I can say is that I know on the basis of the report and I can talk about ESPN and Disney" "

Smith said that he was "optimistic and prayed (Sharp is perfectly innocent", re -mention that his friend and colleague denied all allegations.

"Being aggressive to protect yourself on one side, I fully understand where Shannon Sharp is coming from," he said. "On the other hand, when his legal party issued a press release on X yesterday, they mentioned his name and revealed something in those clear text messages that were uncomfortable, and I didn't know that it would be implemented."

Smith also said, "One of the most difficult things in the world in the world is to be silent and let our legal team do it and love you to tell you I know the answer, but I don't know."

Update - 4/25/25, 3:30 pm et :: In the days after the case was filed, other allegations of Sharp's previous behavior were revealed.

FS1 accused of breathing off female colleagues during the time

Sharp was a few years before the sexual harassment and rape suit of 50 million dollars Allegedly During his time as Kohost of FS 1 UndeniableThe

On Thursday, April 26, the Front Office Sports reported that Sharp was alleged to have stopped a female production assistant while working on the show. The outlet claimed that they talked about "two sources with the knowledge of the event".

A person arrived at an undisclosed settlement with the accused Sharp Anonymous complainant. A case was not filed at that time.

A spokesman for Sharp said, "There was no incident of Shannon involved in the FS1 set." Our weekly Thursday, April 25th.

Women accused Sharp of sexually assaulted in defamation case

A woman named Michelle Evans, who has been in relation to Sharp for almost a decade, sued Sharp in 2021, claiming she had sexually abused her in the 21st.

"The defendant had proceeded to subdue me by force me to force me, forced me to my knees and subsequently engaged in non-compliant verbal infiltration," the allegation was read by which was received ManThe "Despite my protest, he is in this violation."

Although Evans is not suing Sharp for sexual abuse, he said that the consequences of the incident were "My professional fame was attacked and spread on defamatory commentary."

In a statement Our weekly On Friday, April 25, the attorneys on behalf of Sharp denied the allegations.

The statement said, "Sadly, Mrs. Evans was obsessed with Shannon and decided to make a claim against him." "When he couldn't find a lawyer to follow his horrible story, he filed a civic complaint on himself that was completely deprived of qualification."

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