Former NFL player Marcellus Wiley – who Bravo TV fans know as a singular-season Real Housewives of Beverly Hills personality – has been accused of sexual assault by a former ESPN employee, as well as three others, according to new filings obtained by PEOPLE.
The former ESPN employee said in her lawsuit that Marcellus assaulted her in his hotel room after inviting her there under false pretenses.
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Rolling Stone received evidence of the filings. “When we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to use the bathroom,” the woman said in the filing. “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.”
The woman said she “repeatedly pleaded with” Marcellus to stop and let her go, but “he would not,” according to the outlet, citing the filing. She reportedly claimed the NFLer “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.”
The woman said in the filing that Marcellus masturbated over her, and, “Only then did he allow me to leave the room.”
“The assault was devastating to me, and I will live with the effects to this day.”
That’s not all …
Two of the other new accusers claim Marcellus raped them between 1995 and 1999. This goes back to when he was playing football for Columbia University and beginning his NFL career with the Buffalo Bills. Marcellus Wiley was drafted by the Bills in 1997.
His fourth alleged victim claims the former defensive end began pursuing a relationship with her when she was just 13 years old. “Marcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13,” she said in the filing, the outlet reported.
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Marcellus has been accused of sexual assault in the past.
The new allegations – which make seven total for Marcellus, after he was accused of assault by three others in 2023 – were filed on April 29, according to US Weekly. Marcellus is accused of assaulting a former ESPN employee in 2009 and the three others between 1995 and 1999.
Marcellus maintains all of the accusations are “false.”
