A day after Shannon Sharpe and his legal team denied claims that the Super Bowl champion had assaulted a girl who filed a lawsuit against him, a damning audio call has been released of him allegedly threatening to harm her.
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An Audio Call Of A Voice Assumed To Be Shannon Sharpe Has Been Released
On April 22, 2025, TMZ released an audio call, allegedly featuring the voice of Sharpe, threatening to physically harm the lady who filed a $50 million lawsuit against him.
“I don’t know. Anything I say you’re just gonna, like, get mad at me and also you’re just gonna hang up on me,” a girl’s voice could be heard saying within the clip.
Later, the voice alleged to be Sharpe could be heard replying, “I’m not going to hold up on you. It’s what it’s.”
After that, the male’s voice is heard telling the lady on the road that she was going to begin being “a d-ck to me now,” urging her to say to the caller to not “manipulate me.”
Nevertheless, that comment didn’t sit well with the voice assumed to be Sharpe.
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The male voice replied: “Oh, lord, have mercy. For those who say that word another time, I’m gonna f-cking choke the sh-t out of you once I see you.”
The feminine voice said, “I do not wanna be choked,” to which the male caller said, “Yes, you do. I do not think you might have a selection within the matter.”
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Shannon Sharpe Has Been Sued For $50 Million
On Monday, April 21, Sharpe was sued in a Nevada court by a “Jane Doe” for allegedly sexually assaulting her over the course of their alleged relationship, which she claims occurred between 2023 and 2025.
Within the suit, Doe said she met Sharpe at a Los Angeles gym when she was 20 years old, when the previous NFL player allegedly offered to pay for her cosmetic surgery if she won a weight reduction competition with him.
In accordance with Doe, the alleged relationship between her and Sharpe began as a flirtatious interaction, but over time, it changed into something more sinister.
Her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, who was just involved in a legal war with Jay-Z, released a press release about this relationship and claimed Sharpe was controlling.
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“He demanded complete control over her time and body,” Buzbee wrote, “expecting her to be at his house on his schedule, at his command, at any time when he called.”
The documents also alleged that Sharpe threatened to “k-ll” the lady when he caught her attempting to share her location along with her friends.
The suit read, “The moment he realized what she was doing, he grabbed her by the neck and told her, ‘For those who ever try this again, I’ll f-cking kill you.'”
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Jane Doe Alleged Sharpe ‘R-ped’ Her On Multiple Occasions
In accordance with TMZ, Doe also claimed she tried to finish her relationship with Sharpe after his infamous sex tape scandal on Instagram in 2024, but that only led to more problems.
Within the documents, Doe claimed Sharpe raped her after she tried to finish their relationship. In reality, the suit claimed Sharpe forced himself on her “while she was crying and sobbing.”
However it doesn’t end there.
There’s one other claim, by which Doe alleged the “Club Shay Shay” host raped her again in January 2025 after allegedly promising to offer her with gifts for the vacations.
Shannon Sharpe Addressed The Claims And Released ‘Jane Doe’s’ Name
After news of the lawsuit was revealed, Sharpe’s legal team, specifically Lanny J. Davis, released a press release on Instagram.
Within the post, Davis revealed the lady’s identity as Gabriella Zuniga and even shared alleged text messages she sent to Sharpe.
One text read, “Only for those who put that baby gravy in me, then I can do whatever I would like.”
One other read, “That is my daddy. F-ck, I would like [you] to place an enormous black baby in me.”
A 3rd text even seemingly presented Sharpe with a proposal to have sex with Zuniga for “$25k [per] cheek.”
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Sharpe’s Lawyer Said This Is A ‘Shake Down’
Within the statement released on behalf of Sharpe, Davis called the lawsuit a “shake down” attempt orchestrated by Buzbee to secure “thousands and thousands” from Sharpe.
Davis continued, “It’s full of lies, distortions, and misrepresentations — and it’s going to not succeed.”
He also explained why he released the alleged messages from Zuniga.
“To set the record straight, we’re releasing several of Ms. Zuniga’s own explicit text messages to Mr. Sharpe that clearly indicate the character of their relationship was consensual and sexual in nature — and, in lots of cases, initiated by her with specific and graphic requests,” the statement read.
Sharpe’s legal counsel continued, “These messages are only a sampling of a broader pattern of graphic, sexual communications initiated by Ms. Zuniga. The evidence paints a transparent picture: this was a consensual, adult relationship that included role-playing, sexual language, and fantasy scenarios explicitly requested by Ms. Zuniga.”
Davis finished by saying Sharpe stood “firmly” in his truth and was prepared to fight back against “these false claims … in court.”
