According to Front Office Sports, ESPN personality and former NFL great Shannon Sharp were accused of suffocating the female production assistant while being a co-host of FS1’s “uncontroversial” .
Report It comes shortly after Sharp announced he would be taking a temporary leave from ESPN after he allegedly raped her after filing a $50 million lawsuit in Nevada on Sunday.
Sharpe’s stint at Fox Sports has started from 2016 to 2023. The date of the alleged incident at the PA is unknown.
FOS reports that he settled with a female accuser who did not file a lawsuit against Sharp for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“There were no choking incidents involving Shannon in the FS1 set,” a Sharp representative said in a statement.
“One day, he and several colleagues were involved in some mild physical interactions in a playful context. FoxSport later chose to personally solve this issue.”
A Fox Sports spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the post.
The new revelation is the latest accusation against Sharp, who was in the headlines related to the rape allegations that surfaced Sunday, which he denied on multiple occasions.
Sharp is said to have been assaulted, sexually assaulted, committed batteries, sexual batteries, and engaged in a deliberate infringement of emotional distress in women over 30 years of age than him.
The women’s legal team has released an audio clip that is said to be “suffocating” Jane Doe, a way named in the lawsuit.
Sharp’s lawyers pushed back the claims, claiming that the two had an agreement-based relationship, including “role-playing” and “fantasy.”
“The relationship in question was 100% agreement,” Sharp said in a statement on social media on Thursday, announcing a temporary leave from ESPN.
“At this point, I’m choosing to stay aside from my ESPN obligations temporarily. I’m planning to dedicated this time to my family, dealing with these false and destructive allegations against me, and returning to ESPN at the start of the NFL season.
