The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills castmate Annemarie Wiley’s husband is facing allegations of sexually assaulting a classmate during their time in college in the 1990s. The 48-year-old former NFL standout Marcellus Wiley is expected to play in the current campaign. Marcellus was accused of raping a fellow student at Columbia University, according to a complaint obtained by Us Weekly.
In the fall of 1994, the plaintiff—who shall remain nameless—said that Marcellus had “rap[ed] her multiple times in her dorm room.” During his Never Shut Up show on Wednesday, the athlete refuted the accusations.
The plaintiff said she and Marcellus became “friendly acquaintances” when she was a freshman and he was a sophomore because they were “traveling in the same social circles.” According to the suit, “multiple complaints” about Marcellus were allegedly made by female students “beginning in the fall of 1993,” though the plaintiff wasn’t aware at the time, and the other women had also claimed Marcellus “sexually assaulted and/or raped them.”
The plaintiff said she informed the athlete she was a virgin before he purportedly responded, “Ain’t nobody tryina have sex with no virgin!” On entering her room, according to the allegations, “the 250lb defendant then lifted plaintiff, forced her face-down down onto the mattress, and climbed on top of her” before he pinned her “face-down on the bed [by her] forearm on the back of her neck.” The woman said she “feared for her life” and could “barely breathe.”
The plaintiff claimed that Columbia University’s “callous, negligent, reckless and deceptive response to, and handling of, plaintiff’s and other students’ allegations was an unconscionable revictimization of plaintiff, which caused psychological injuries, financial and academic damages” and included the university in the suit.
The student reported the attack to Columbia’s authorities, and according to the lawsuit, the “administrators expressed fondness” for the athlete—who was the team’s running back at the time—and claimed that the incident was a “misunderstanding.”
Additionally, according to the lawsuit, Marcellus did not assault the plaintiff since she “was not from America and therefore misinterpreted defendant’s conduct because ‘people from different cultures interpret things differently.'” Marcellus’ residential dean allegedly informed the girl this.
According to the allegations, the school’s administrators told the plaintiff that Marcellus would be suspended, though he was actually placed on “academic probation” for “poor grades,” and he had to “complete the spring 1995 semester from home.” The lawsuit alleged the sexual assault was never put on the athlete’s record, and no one contacted law enforcement.
The unnamed person filed the suit under the state of New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provided a one-year window – regardless of statutes of limitations – to sexual assault plaintiffs for filing civil claims. The window started on Thanksgiving of 2022 and closes on November 24 of this year.
Marcellus addressed the claims on his Brinx TV program. He denied having “vaginal intercourse,” even though he said he and the anonymous individual “mess[ed] around” in the hostel that year. The athlete claimed that the woman urged him to “give her a call” in the morning and that he was invited into her dorm. The plaintiff “only felt ashamed” about the affair “when she knew there was no future with me,” Marcellus claims.
“You guys deserve the clarity, and I deserve to speak my truth because it’s what’s going to set me free,” the speaker continued. The celebrity declared that he “fitted a stereotype” as a “big black man from Compton” and that he would file a countersuit for slander.