The accuser will release a "30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me look guilty," said the football Hall of Famer, who demanded that the whole "10 minutes" be shown.

Shannon Sharpe is accused in a civil lawsuit filed Sunday in Clark County, Nev., of raping a woman in October 2024 and in January.

Sharpe described the lawsuit as a “shakedown” in a recorded statement released Tuesday, and his lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, released text exchanges that he described as showing “a pattern of sexual role-playing that specifically includes her being choked by him.”