Former NFL star and ESPN analyst Marcellus Wiley is facing fresh allegations of sexual assault from four new accusers.
The claims, filed this month in New York, broaden the litigation that began in 2023 when three women accused Wiley of rape during his time at Columbia University.
Among the new accusers is a former ESPN production assistant who alleges that Wiley lured her into a hotel room under the guise of a work meeting in 2009.
In a graphic written statement, the former staffer claims Wiley emerged from a bathroom naked and physically overpowered her, leaving her ‘petrified’.
The woman told the court: ‘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.
‘I 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.
Former NFL star and ESPN analyst Marcellus Wiley is facing fresh allegations of sexual assault
Wiley pictured alongside former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and wife Annemarie
‘Wiley held me down and masturbated over me until he ejaculated. Only then did he allow me to leave the room.
‘This assault was devastating to me and I live with the affects to this day. I will never truly escape from that room,’ the former ESPN employee wrote.
Another of the latest accusers claims in the lawsuit that Wiley ‘groomed’ her from the age of 13 before raping her on her 18th birthday.
The unnamed individual alleged that she was just 13 when Wiley first came into contact with her, after visiting her middle school in Buffalo, New York.
The woman alleges that Wiley, a player for the Buffalo Bills at the time, ‘showered her family with free tickets and invitations to his Orchard Park home’.
The accuser alleges that, on her 18th birthday, Wiley flew her to Dallas and ‘shouted at her in a frightening manner and coerced her into sex’.
‘Marcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13, the alleged victim wrote in her account to the court.
Two additional accusers have also submitted statements to the court alleging assaults in the late 1990s, including an attack in Culver City and a rape at a USC hotel.
Wiley and the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star share three children
The claims, filed this month in New York, broaden the litigation that began in 2023 when three women accused Wiley of rape during his time at Columbia University
Wiley is married to former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Annemarie Wiley, 41, and the couple share three children. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship.
He was first accused of rape back in a November 2023 lawsuit. The accuser, now an Ivy League professor and sociologist, claimed Wiley took her virginity when he assaulted her in 1994.
Wiley has consistently and vehemently denied all allegations, previously using his YouTube channel to dismiss the initial 2023 claims as ‘BS’ and fabrications.
The former lineman admitted that he was ‘interested’ in the alleged victim and that he spent a night with her after allegedly being invited back to her room.
‘If you’re a virgin, I am not going to be your first, because I am not looking at it with the same respect, esteem, honor that you should … We did mess around, but no vaginal intercourse,’ Wiley responded in the video.
Meanwhile, in the accusations that emerged in a March lawsuit, Wiley allegedly pressured a woman for sex after she agreed to go back to his dorm room on October 27, 1994.
After saying no to Wiley ‘repeatedly’, he told her she was ‘too upright and needed to relax’ before imposing himself on her, according to the lawsuit.
The court papers claim Wiley then ‘swung [her] legs on the bed, lunged towards her and overpowered [her]’.
Wiley has consistently and vehemently denied all allegations, previously using his YouTube channel to dismiss the initial 2023 claims as ‘BS’ and fabrications
Partial view of the Columbia University in New York, where Wiley attended from 1993 to 1997
During the alleged attack, the woman claimed in the court paper that he allegedly held her down and whispered to her ‘to relax, enjoy it, stop crying, and stop fighting the feeling.’
The alleged victim, who attended Barnard, claims she told a Columbia University administrator about the incident and they urged her not to file a criminal complaint.
It’s claimed in the lawsuit that they told her she ‘would be known as the girl who destroyed a black man’s NFL dream.’
It is then claimed,in the same lawsuit by the second anonymous accuser who now lives in California, that Wiley also assaulted her in his dorm room. Both alleged victims are seeking unspecified damages.
Wiley played for the Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars during his NFL career. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2001.
He has since built a career as a TV analyst, appearing on ESPN and Fox Sports and his own podcast.
DailyMail.com has contacted both Wiley and his representatives for comment.
