The woman accusing Shannon Sharpe of rape has now released audio of a conversation she says she had with the Pro Football Hall of Famer ... and in it, Sharpe can be heard telling her he's "going to f***ing choke the shit out" of her.
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00:00Okay, strap yourself in because we're about to tell you something that's pretty shocking.
00:05So you know the story about Shannon Sharp being sued by a woman, it looks like a former girlfriend,
00:13who says that he sexually assaulted her.
00:16He came back saying, well, not true.
00:20Denying it all together, saying this is a shakedown, she's just trying to get money out of me,
00:25and he puts a lot of blame on her attorney, Tony Busby, as well.
00:29This is the Tony Busby, as in the Diddy lawsuits.
00:33Correct.
00:33Tony Busby is representing the Jane Doe, she's filed as Jane Doe.
00:37But this morning, Tony Busby dropped an audio recording that he says his client made
00:44was a phone conversation between herself and Shannon, and they get into an argument,
00:51and you will hear what Shannon said to her, and then we'll get into Shannon's response to this.
00:58I don't know.
00:59Anything I say, you're just going to, like, get mad at, and you're just going to hang up on me,
01:03so I feel like...
01:05I'm not going to hang up on you.
01:06It is what it is.
01:08What?
01:08What does that even mean?
01:10Nothing, Gabby.
01:11You want to be a f*** to me now, so...
01:16I don't want to be...
01:17Don't manipulate me.
01:20I don't know, God mercy.
01:21If you said that one more time, I'm going to f***ing choke the f*** out of you when I see you.
01:28Okay.
01:30Well, I don't want to be choked.
01:31Yes, you do.
01:37I don't think you have a choice in the matter.
01:40Wow.
01:40Yeah.
01:42So, the part, obviously, bleeped out.
01:45Just to be clear, I'm going to bleeping choke the f*** out of you the next time I see you.
01:51Now, what's interesting is the end of that conversation where he says,
01:57you don't have a choice in the matter.
02:00One of the things that Shannon said in response to this when the lawsuit was filed is that
02:06they had a relationship where there was a lot of role-playing.
02:09This was a consensual relationship for over several months where they did role-playing.
02:17There was rough sex.
02:19And he admitted to this, and his lawyer released what he says are text messages from this woman
02:25sent to Shannon, where she said things like...
02:28But we should say, this is going to be really graphic, folks.
02:31Yes.
02:32I want you to put a dog collar around my neck and choke me with it while you're blanking me.
02:37By the way, and I should say that the choking aligns with what he says was going on,
02:43which is what you just described.
02:44I know you missed this big, juicy...
02:47Are you not going to read some of these?
02:48Nope, you're the reader.
02:49I know you missed this big, juicy, blank, 25K for each cheek.
02:54You better crave it because you're going to be stuck with it for life after you put a big, black, baby...
02:59So what they're saying with these texts is that it aligns with the nature of the relationship which they're talking about.
03:09So, Shannon this morning, after Tony Busby released that audio recording, Shannon decided he wanted to respond.
03:17Now, he actually recorded a video.
03:22He's not responding to the audio recording itself.
03:25He's responding to the overall lawsuit and says there are actually more recordings that he expects to come out.
03:31This is a shakedown.
03:32I'm going to be open, transparent, and defend myself because this isn't right.
03:37This is all being orchestrated by Tony Busby, who has targeted Jay-Z.
03:42Tony Busby targets black men, and I believe he's going to release a 30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me look guilty and played into every stereotype you could possibly imagine.
03:52That video should actually be 10 minutes or so.
03:55Hey, Tony, instead of releasing your edit, put the whole video out.
03:59I don't have it, or I would myself.
04:01You know what happened, and you're trying to manipulate the media.
04:04The encountering question took place during the day at her invitation, and now that appears to be a deliberate settle.
04:10Coordinated by Gabby, also known as Carly, on OnlyFans.
04:14Gabby and Tony Busby want $50 million.
04:17What they're getting is sued for defamation and trying to take me down.
04:21My career is all about real talk and honesty.
04:24I know my family and fans know exactly what this is about.
04:27So to kind of translate this, I think what he's saying is Tony Busby contacted Shannon Sharp or his rap and said,
04:37give us $50 million or we're going to release and whatever it was that included a 30-second video because he seemed to know about the 30 seconds.
04:47Right.
04:47And saying that if you look at it in the full context of the 10 minutes.
04:50It is interesting that he knows the length, the full length is 10 minutes.
04:55So that makes you feel like he knows exactly what this video is.
04:58Charles, he may have a copy of the full video.
05:01Well, he said I don't.
05:01No, he says he does.
05:02He said I'd release it if I had it.
05:03He actually said, Harvey, if he had it, he would release it himself.
05:07I don't know what Shannon believes that the sex tape would show, but he certainly seems to believe that it would actually vindicate him.
05:15He seems to have very clear knowledge of when it happened, described where it happened, and the exact length.
05:22But I think what he's saying is that if you look at that 30 seconds out of context, it's going to look way different than if you look at the full 10 minutes.
05:29I will say if Shannon, and look, these are two allegations.
05:34You have heard her side and Shannon's side.
05:36If he is correct, he's trying to, and maybe he will, checkmate Tony Busby into releasing the full thing.
05:44And if it is 10 minutes, then that makes the public believe Shannon's side of this more than the accuser's side.
05:52And I think that's what Shannon's trying to do here at this point.
05:55I disagree a little bit because I don't think the 30 seconds, unless Tony Busby is representing that's all there is, that doesn't mean that he's relieved.
06:07Your point is if there's something bad in that 30 seconds, it's still bad.
06:10Right, right, right.
06:11But if you see the full thing, it's going to look more like role-playing than real.
06:17That's what Shannon's saying.
06:19If choking is part of the role-playing, you could see him saying, look, yes, I said that to her, but that was a thing that we did.
06:27And I meant like, when you come home, we're going to have rough sex.
06:31Can you just show the chyron of that phone call again?
06:37That's the part.
06:38I don't want to be choked is a weird response.
06:42Yeah, it's tepid.
06:43Listen, and Shannon hasn't said this, but based on the fact that his lawyer said, put out these text messages and said, this is the kind of relationship they had.
06:53I could see Shannon saying, that was our role-play.
06:57And that's why she said very meekly, I don't want to be choked.
07:01And that's why the 10-minute tape may show kind of the full context of it.
07:08By the way, he can't sue for defamation because when what they write in the lawsuit is protected, you can't sue for what's in the actual lawsuit.
07:19He could sue for malicious prosecution the way Jay-Z did if this thing gets dismissed with prejudice or if he wins.
07:28But you can't sue for defamation for what's in a lawsuit.
07:31Just FYI.
07:31My name is Torshia from South Florida.
07:34And look, anytime I see Tony Busby's name now, I just pause for a second just to consider validity.
07:40But this is a very unique case from his last debacle because these two very clearly know each other, Shannon Sharp and Jane Doe, and they have very clearly spent time together.
07:50So based on the messages, et cetera, it's not beyond the stretch of anybody's imagination to kind of see things from Shannon Sharp's side.
07:57But you could also kind of see things from Jane Doe's side.
08:01And we all know the burden of proof is going to be lower because this is on the civil side.
08:05So I don't think this is going to be a clear, cut-and-dry, closed case in Shannon's favor.
08:11And we still need to see how the people that he works with are going to react.
08:15Yeah, we haven't heard that.
08:16You're right.
08:16We have not heard that yet.
08:17And has not said anything.
08:18We have not heard that yet.
08:18We have not heard that yet.
08:20We have not heard that yet.