Former Professional Bowl defensive finish Marcellus Wiley is going through new sexual assault allegations from 4 ladies, together with a former ESPN manufacturing assistant.
Wiley, 51, who’s married to former Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills solid member Annemarie Wiley, performed 10 seasons within the NFL earlier than spending 5 years as an analyst at ESPN.
The 4 new allegations imply a complete of seven ladies have now accused him of assault, courting again to 2023.
The previous ESPN worker alleged that Wiley lured her to his lodge room in 2009 below the guise of a piece assembly.
“After we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to make use of the lavatory,” the girl alleges, in response to a courtroom submitting obtained by Us Weekly (Rolling Stone was first to report on the extra allegations.) “He emerged from the lavatory bare. He pushed me up towards the home windows of the room so onerous I assumed they might shatter. I used to be petrified and believed I used to be going to be killed.”
She continued, “I repeatedly pleaded with him to cease and to let me go. He wouldn’t. He pushed me face down on the mattress and stored me there with my face pressed into the mattress in such a approach that I had problem respiratory, which made me worry for my life. Wiley held me down and masturbated over me till he ejaculated. Solely then did he permit me to depart the room.”
One other accuser stated Wiley first met her when she was 13 years previous, showering her and her household with presents for 5 years till she turned 18.
“Marcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13,” she claimed in the identical submitting. “If Columbia [University, where Wiley attended college] had correctly pursued the complaints… I’d by no means have been groomed and raped.”
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The opposite two ladies declare Wiley raped them in California between 1995 and 1999, spanning the top of his faculty profession and the start of his time with the Buffalo Payments.
Wiley took to YouTube on Tuesday, Might 5, wherein he denied the allegations towards him.
“I’m going to proceed to problem all these false accusations,” he stated. “I’m uncovered to inconsistencies, [I] break down the movie and confront what I consider to be makes an attempt at [causing harm to] my popularity by way of authorized coercion or authorized extortion.”
Wiley continued, “They’re making an attempt to leverage lies for private acquire. As they are saying, assassination by accusation. That’s their aim. They’re making an attempt by mendacity. They don’t need justice. They need simply ice. Cash, bling, issues.”
The brand new accusations got here as a part of an effort from one of many three Jane Doe accusers from his Columbia days to show her beforehand filed case right into a class-action swimsuit towards the college.
One of many ladies claimed to have reported the alleged assault to the college however was suggested by a dean to not go to the police in an effort to guard her popularity. She was allegedly advised that Wiley can be positioned on probation. One other accuser claims she reported the alleged incident to the college and was advised that Wiley can be suspended. The third was allegedly advised by the college that any disciplinary motion towards the star soccer participant must wait as a result of the Lions had “a giant sport developing towards Princeton.”
“By selling, defending, and elevating a sexual predator… Columbia College created a false picture of Wiley… thereby enabling Wiley’s vicious propensity to rape/assault ladies,” Laura Gentile, who represents the three ladies, wrote within the courtroom submitting.
Wiley has beforehand spoken out concerning the three prior allegations, which got here to mild in 2023 and allegedly occurred whereas he was a Columbia pupil in 1994. He referred to as the accusations “B.S.” on his YouTube channel on the time and his lawyer stated in a courtroom submitting that Wiley “denies the allegations that he sexually assaulted or raped any college students of Columbia College.”
“Defendant denies that he dedicated any of the wrongs alleged, denies that plaintiff or every other purported members of the category had been harmed by him, and denies that the claims within the grievance are correctly asserted as a category motion,” Wiley’s lawyer wrote in a solution to one of many Jane Doe lawsuits, in response to Rolling Stone.
