Shannon Sharpe may have threatened to choke his rape accuser on more than one occasion.
The attorney representing Sharpe’s ex-girlfriend in her $50 million rape lawsuit against the NFL great has released another purported phone conversation between the two. And just like the previous tape, which Sharpe’s attorney described as both authentic and misleading, the 56-year-old is again heard sharing his plans to choke his partner.
Significantly, the date of the recording is unknown and much of the context around the conversation remains unclear.
‘I’m not really interested in getting choked,’ the woman is heard saying in the tape recording first published by TMZ.
‘I may choke you in public,’ a man’s voice, believed to Sharpe’s, is said heard saying. ‘Big black guy chokes small white woman.’
The woman responded after a brief pause: ‘It’s not a good look, Shannon.’
Shannon Sharpe may have threatened to choke his rape accuser on more than one occasion
‘Not a good look that you did what the s*** you did to me,’ the man’s voice fired back, although it’s difficult to say what he was referring to.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Sharpe’s attorney, Lanny Davis, and plaintiff attorney Tony Buzbee for further details.
The tape is eerily similar to another call previously released by Buzbee’s office to DailyMail.com in which Sharpe is heard saying: ‘I’m gonna f***ing choke the s*** out of you when I see you.’
Davis has confirmed the authenticity of that recording, but claimed his client was speaking ‘in the heat of the moment’ and the violent threat was ‘not intended.’
Sharpe has denied the allegations and accused the plaintiff of being financially motivated, although Davis confirmed his client previously offered at least $10 million to settle the case with his accuser.
Davis named the accuser in Monday’s statement that also included several sexually explicit text messages she allegedly sent to the three-time Super Bowl winner. Furthermore, Davis released purported text messages between the accuser and his client, including one from early January in which she appears to accuse him of rape: ‘no means no shannon.’
In his own Tuesday statement, Buzbee claimed ‘an incredibly damning video does indeed exist’ and its contents will ‘speak volumes about Mr. Sharpe and his behavior.’
Both Davis and his client have since demanded Buzbee release an unedited version of the footage, which they suggest will be deceptively changed to incriminate Sharpe.
‘Do not touch, do not tamper, do not alter that tape that we believe, without any doubt, was substantially edited, so that when it’s posted, as we expect it to be, we will immediately explain how edited and warped and distorted and out of context it is,’ Davis said. ‘We will get a copy of that tape, and then we will see whether it’s been tampered with.’
Buzbee has already denied altering the footage.
‘The statement from Sharpe’s newest lawyer falsely accuses Ms. Jane Doe of editing a video — a claim that is not only demonstrably false, but also desperate,’ Buzbee wrote. ‘The lawyer also suggests Ms. Doe refused to make the video available to Mr. Sharpe. Again, this assertion is easily proven untrue.
‘Here’s what is true,’ Buzbee continued. ‘Although Jane Doe never referenced any video or multiple audios that she possesses in the lawsuit that she filed, now that Mr. Sharpe’s lawyer has decided to broach that subject, we will address it.’
That aforementioned video ‘will be played to the jury,’ Buzbee wrote in his statement.
