Shannon Sharpe’s Attorney Explains $10 Million Settlement Offer

Shannon Sharpe‘s attorney, Lanny J. Davis, has opened up about why the Hall of Famer offered a $10 MILLION settlement to his rape accuser.

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Davis explains that the gargantuan offer wasn’t an admission of guilt or wrongdoing. Instead, it was to avoid any public humiliation. He says:

“In fact, Mr. Sharpe decided to pay the substantial blackmail money demanded by the [plaintiff] for the same reason why many many other innocent people subject to a blackmail threat decide, usually painfully, to pay the blackmailer for the same reasons [as] Mr. Sharpe, having absolutely nothing to do with any admission of wrongdoing: In Mr. Sharpe’s case as in the case of virtually all other similar subjects of blackmail, the reason [was] primarily to avoid public embarrassment for himself and his family and other adverse consequences to his life and reputation.”

Sharpe’s attorney continued claims of his client’s innocence, stressed that the media personality and the plaintiff’s relationship was consensual. He further asks the plaintiff to allow an independent expert to examine an alleged sex tape.

Per Davis:

“Mr. Sharpe denied the lie that he did anything other than engage in consensual sex and that the tape secretly recorded by [the plaintiff] was incomplete, contained deletions or edits, to mislead the viewer into a conclusion that the sexual encounter was non-consensual…my challenge to [the plaintiff] and her attorney that if they claim there was no such deletions or editing of her secretly recorded tape, then she should give her attorney permission to turn it over to a neutral, professional investigator to determine whether or not it was altered in any way.”

The lawsuit is set to proceed, and the former tight end will file a countersuit, according to his attorney.