Former athlete and current host of the Club Shay Shay podcast, Shannon Sharpe, has been sued for alleged sexual assault and sexual battery in a new lawsuit filed in Nevada.

The civil complaint filed by Jane Doe alleges that Sharpe, 56, assaulted a woman with whom he allegedly had a “rocky consensual relationship that lasted nearly two years” and began in 2023 when she was 19 years old. The lawsuit claims that Sharpe “violently sexually assaulted and anally raped Plaintiff two different times in Las Vegas, Nev., blatantly ignoring her requests for him to stop” in October 2024, per Variety.

The complaint also alleges that Sharpe would record and share videos of his sexual encounters with Doe without her consent or knowledge. A September 2024 incident in which Sharpe launched an Instagram Live broadcast while engaging in sexual activity with an unknown person is also mentioned in the suit, though it is clarified that the woman heard on the broadcast is not the woman behind this particular case, per NBC.

In January 2025, the lawsuit details that Sharpe allegedly dismissed requests from Doe to wear a condom or stop having sex with her entirely. “After many months of manipulating and controlling Plaintiff — a woman more than thirty years younger than he — and repeatedly threatening to brutally choke and violently slap her, Sharpe refused to accept the answer no and raped Plaintiff, despite her sobbing and repeated screams of ‘no,’” the complaint states.

Sharpe did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.

Doe is being represented by Micah Nash and Tony Buzbee, the prominent Houston attorney who is currently representing more than two dozen accusers in lawsuits filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs. She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in the amount of $50 million.