{"id":91204,"date":"2026-05-06T02:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/marcellus-wiley-accused-of-rape-by-ex-espn-employee-others\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:35:55","slug":"marcellus-wiley-accused-of-rape-by-ex-espn-employee-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/marcellus-wiley-accused-of-rape-by-ex-espn-employee-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcellus Wiley Accused of Rape by Ex ESPN Employee, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Pro Bowl defensive end <strong>Marcellus Wiley<\/strong> is facing new sexual assault allegations from four women, including a former ESPN production assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Wiley, 51, who is married to former <em>Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em> cast member <strong>Annemarie Wiley<\/strong>, played 10 seasons in the NFL before spending five years as an analyst at ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The four new allegations mean a total of seven women have now accused him of assault, dating back to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The former ESPN employee alleged that Wiley lured her to his hotel room in 2009 under the guise of a work meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/What-to-Know-About-Shannon-Sharpe-Rape-and-Sexual-Battery-Accusations.jpg?crop=176px%2C27px%2C1824px%2C1030px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"What to Know About Shannon Sharpe Rape and Sexual Battery Accusations\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">What to Know About Shannon Sharpe Rape and Sexual Battery Accusations<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tNFL Hall of Fame Shannon Sharpe was accused of rape and sexual battery in a bombshell $50 million lawsuit. In court documents filed in Nevada on April 20, according to NBC Sports, a woman identified as \u201cJane Doe\u201d accused Sharpe of sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions as well as making verbal threats. Sharpe strongly [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to use the bathroom,\u201d the woman alleges, according to a court filing obtained by <em>Us Weekly<\/em> (<em>Rolling Stone<\/em> was first to report on the additional allegations.) \u201cHe emerged from the bathroom naked. He pushed me up against the windows of the room so hard I thought they would shatter. I was petrified and believed I was going to be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI repeatedly pleaded with him to stop and to let me go. He would not. He pushed me face down on the bed and kept me there with my face pressed into the mattress in such a way that I had difficulty breathing, which made me fear for my life. Wiley held me down and masturbated over me until he ejaculated. Only then did he allow me to leave the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another accuser said Wiley first met her when she was 13 years old, showering her and her family with gifts for five years until she turned 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13,\u201d she claimed in the same filing. \u201cIf Columbia [University, where Wiley attended college] had properly pursued the complaints\u2026 I would never have been groomed and raped.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=74&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-633604278.jpg?crop=3px%2C152px%2C2994px%2C1691px&amp;resize=2400%2C1350&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Falcons Fire Coach LaTroy Lewis After Being Accused of Rape\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Falcons Fire Coach LaTroy Lewis After &#8216;Deeply Concerning&#8217; Rape Allegations<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe Atlanta Falcons have fired assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis following accusations of rape during his time coaching at the University of Michigan \u2014 just two weeks after he was hired by the NFL team. \u201cThe Atlanta Falcons have dismissed assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis from his role,\u201d read a Friday, February 27, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The other two women claim Wiley raped them in California between 1995 and 1999, spanning the end of his college career and the beginning of his time with the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Wiley took to YouTube on Tuesday, May 5, in which he denied the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to continue to challenge all these false accusations,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m exposed to inconsistencies, [I] break down the film and confront what I believe to be attempts at [causing harm to] my reputation through legal coercion or legal extortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiley continued, \u201cThey\u2019re trying to leverage lies for personal gain. As they say, assassination by accusation. That\u2019s their goal. They\u2019re trying by lying. They don\u2019t want justice. They want just ice. Money, bling, things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new accusations came as part of an effort from one of the three Jane Doe accusers from his Columbia days to turn her previously filed case into a class-action suit against the university.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women claimed to have reported the alleged assault to the school but was advised by a dean not to go to the police in an effort to protect her reputation. She was allegedly told that Wiley would be placed on probation. Another accuser claims she reported the alleged incident to the university and was told that Wiley would be suspended. The third was allegedly told by the university that any disciplinary action against the star football player would have to wait because the Lions had \u201ca big game coming up against Princeton.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBy promoting, protecting, and elevating a sexual predator\u2026 Columbia University created a false image of Wiley\u2026 thereby enabling Wiley\u2019s vicious propensity to rape\/assault women,\u201d <strong>Laura Gentile<\/strong>, who represents the three women, wrote in the court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Wiley has previously spoken out about the three prior allegations, which came to light in 2023 and allegedly occurred while he was a Columbia student in 1994. He called the accusations \u201cB.S.\u201d on his YouTube channel at the time and his lawyer said in a court filing that Wiley \u201cdenies the allegations that he sexually assaulted or raped any students of Columbia University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendant denies that he committed any of the wrongs alleged, denies that plaintiff or any other purported members of the class were harmed by him, and denies that the claims in the complaint are properly asserted as a class action,\u201d Wiley\u2019s lawyer wrote in an answer to one of the Jane Doe lawsuits, according to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pro Bowl defensive end Marcellus Wiley is facing new sexual assault allegations from four women, including a former ESPN production assistant. 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