{"id":187926,"date":"2025-07-07T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/187926\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:12:11","slug":"shannon-sharpe-still-hasnt-legally-responded-to-bombshell-sexual-assault-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/187926\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Sharpe still hasn’t legally responded to bombshell sexual assault lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shannon Sharpe\u2019s legal team has not filed a response to the sexual assault lawsuit filed earlier this year, which created national headlines for days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The complaint had been filed in court in Nevada in April<\/a> and alleged that Sharpe had assaulted, sexually assaulted, committed battery, sexual battery and had intentionally inflicted emotional distress on a woman in her 20s with whom he had a nearly two-year relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sharpe, 57, has denied the claims and called the lawsuit a \u201cshakedown\u201d in a statement released shortly after the suit had been filed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the initial blitz of headlines, the case has gone quiet, but Pro Football Talk reported on Sunday <\/a>that Sharpe has not filed a response to the civil complaint and that a hearing on three different motions would take place on July 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ShannonShannon Sharpe attends Netflix & WWE \u201cMonday Night RAW\u201d Brunch at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on April 21, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n

It\u2019s scheduled for 10 a.m. local time and had originally been set to take place on June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report noted that responses are usually due within 30 days of being served and that extensions can be granted out of courtesy among lawyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reps for Sharpe\u2019s legal team did not immediately return The Post\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ShannonShannon Sharpe at the 56th NAACP Image Awards held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sharpe\u2019s lawyer, Lanny Davis, had told reporters during a press conference<\/a> in April that Sharpe would file a counterclaim against the woman, who Sharpe\u2019s legal team identified, but who The Post has not named.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Davis had also said at the time that Sharpe had offered the woman \u201cat least $10 million\u201d in a settlement and called it a \u201cbig surprise\u201d when the case was filed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plaintiff alleged that several times at the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, Sharpe had assaulted her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Davis claimed that the woman had been trying to commit \u201ca classic definition of blackmail\u201d by filing the suit before Sharpe signed a massive podcast network deal that had been reported to be for more than $100 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plaintiff is being represented by Tony Buzzbee, who represented more than 20 women against Deshaun Watson during his extensive sexual assault case in 2021<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shannon Sharpe\u2019s legal team has not filed a response to the sexual assault lawsuit filed earlier this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,7,6,3250,9,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-187926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-shannon-sharpe","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-entertainment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114811184379098904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}