Former Pro Bowl defensive end Marcellus Wiley is facing new sexual assault allegations from four women, including a former ESPN production assistant.
Wiley, 51, who is married to former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Annemarie Wiley, played 10 seasons in the NFL before spending five years as an analyst at ESPN.
The four new allegations mean a total of seven women have now accused him of assault, dating back to 2023.
The former ESPN employee alleged that Wiley lured her to his hotel room in 2009 under the guise of a work meeting.
“When we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to use the bathroom,” the woman alleges, according to a court filing obtained by Us Weekly (Rolling Stone was first to report on the additional allegations.) “He 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.”
She continued, “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. Wiley held me down and masturbated over me until he ejaculated. Only then did he allow me to leave the room.”
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.
“Marcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13,” she claimed in the same filing. “If Columbia [University, where Wiley attended college] had properly pursued the complaints… I would never have been groomed and raped.”
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.
Wiley took to YouTube on Tuesday, May 5, in which he denied the allegations against him.
“I’m going to continue to challenge all these false accusations,” he said. “I’m 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.”
Wiley continued, “They’re trying to leverage lies for personal gain. As they say, assassination by accusation. That’s their goal. They’re trying by lying. They don’t want justice. They want just ice. Money, bling, things.”
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.
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 “a big game coming up against Princeton.”
“By promoting, protecting, and elevating a sexual predator… Columbia University created a false image of Wiley… thereby enabling Wiley’s vicious propensity to rape/assault women,” Laura Gentile, who represents the three women, wrote in the court filing.
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 “B.S.” on his YouTube channel at the time and his lawyer said in a court filing that Wiley “denies the allegations that he sexually assaulted or raped any students of Columbia University.”
“Defendant 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,” Wiley’s lawyer wrote in an answer to one of the Jane Doe lawsuits, according to Rolling Stone.
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