Marcellus Wiley, Ex-NFL Player and Husband of “RHOBH”'s Annemarie, Accused of Sexual Assault by Former ESPN Employee
The former defensive end was also accused by three others of sexual assault in a new lawsuit, one year after accusations from three additional women
Marcellus Wiley on Aug. 8, 2014 Credit: Tiffany Rose/WireImage NEED TO KNOW Ex-NFL player Marcellus Wiley has been accused of sexual assault by four more women, including a former ESPN employee, according to Rolling Stone Wiley is accused of assaulting the former ESPN employee in his hotel room in 2009 He denied the allegations in a YouTube video on Tuesday, May 5 Former NFL player Marcellus Wiley has been accused of sexual assault by a former ESPN employee, as well as three others, according to new filings obtained by Rolling Stone and PEOPLE. The new allegations — which make seven total for Wiley, 51, after he was accused of assault by three others in 2023, were filed on Wednesday, April 29, according to Rolling Stone and US Weekly , and accuse him of assaulting a former ESPN employee in 2009 and the three others between 1995 and 1999.
The former ESPN employee said in her lawsuit that Wiley, whose wife Annemarie Wiley spent one season on Bravo's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, assaulted her in his hotel room after inviting her there under false pretenses, according to Rolling Stone. Former NFL player Marcellus Wiley Credit: Getty "When we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to use the bathroom," the woman said in the filing, per Rolling Stone . “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" Wiley to stop and let her go, but "he would not," according to the outlet, citing the filing.
She reportedly claimed Wiley "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 difficult breathing, which made me fear for my life. " The woman said in the filing that Wiley masturbated over her, and, "Only then did he allow me to leave the room, according to Rolling Stone. “The assault was devastating to me, and I will live with the effects to this day.