Former Pro Bowl defensive end Marcellus Wiley is facing new allegations of sexual harassment against four women, including a former ESPN production assistant.
Wiley, 51, is married to an ex Real Housewives of Beverly Hills a member of the cast Annemarie Wileyhe played 10 seasons in the NFL before spending five years as an analyst at ESPN.
These four new allegations mean that a total of seven women have accused him of assault, since 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 asked to use the bathroom,” the woman said, according to the court filing. Us Weekly (Rolling Stone is the first to report these additional allegations.) “He came out of the bathroom naked. He pushed me up to the windows of the bedroom so I thought he was going to crash. I was scared and I believed I was going to be killed.”
He went on to say, “I begged him many times to let me go, he didn’t agree, he pushed me face down on the bed and kept my face pressed against the mattress in such a way that I was breathing hard, which made me fear for my life.”
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 when I was 13,” she said in the same filing. “If Columbia [University, where Wiley attended college] I had followed the complaints properly… I would not have been courted and raped.”
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Two other women say Wiley raped them in California between 1995 and 1999, starting at the end of his college career and the beginning of his time with the Buffalo Bills.
Wiley took to YouTube on Tuesday, May 5, where he denied the allegations against him.
“I will continue to oppose all these false allegations,” he said. “I face inconsistencies, [I] break the film and deal with what I believe to be your efforts [causing harm to] my reputation by legal coercion or legal robbery.”
Wiley continued, “They’re trying to use lies for their own benefit, as they say, murder on suspicion. That’s their goal. They’re trying to lie. They don’t want justice, they just want ice, money, a building, things.”
The new allegations came as part of an effort by one of Jane Doe’s three accusers from her Columbia days to turn her previously filed case into a university case.
One of the women says that she reported the alleged assault to the school but was advised by the teacher not to go to the police in order to protect her reputation. It is said that he was told that Wiley will be tested. Another accuser says she reported the incident to the university and was told Wiley would be suspended. A third was allegedly told by the university that any disciplinary action against the football player would have to wait because the Lions “had a big game coming up against Princeton.”
“By encouraging, protecting, and promoting a sex offender… Columbia University created a false image of Wiley… thereby allowing Wiley to be brutal in raping/assaulting women,” Laura Gentilerepresenting three women, wrote to the court.
Wiley has previously spoken about three previous allegations, which surfaced in 2023 and allegedly took place while he was a student at Columbia in 1994. He called the allegations “BS” on his YouTube channel at the time and his lawyer said in a court filing that Wiley “denies allegations that he sexually harassed or raped any students at Columbia University.”
“The defendant denies that it committed any alleged wrongdoing, denies that the plaintiff or other members of the alleged class were harmed by it, and denies that the claims of the complaint are properly asserted as a class action,” Wiley’s attorney said in response to one of Jane Doe’s lawsuits, according to Rolling Stone.
