Le’veon Bell, above Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back was accused of rape for a cousin, Jada Bell, who filed a lawsuit against the former NFL player in Franklin County, OhioLast year. Now Le’veon is denying the claims, and his lawyer said Sports Tmz that the accusations of Jada are “false”.
In the demand, Jada claimed that Le’veon began to assault it -when he was about 6 or 7 years old. She stated that Le’veon, Jada said that she is eight years older than her, would use “slang terms” to refer to the sexual acts she wanted to do.
“For example,” says demand, “he called an” oral sex fire “.
Jada said that abuse continued for a decade and persisted when Bell was at Michigan State University and would return to Ohio “during his college years and beyond.” She claims she ended up when she turned 18.
Jada filed the lawsuit on March 22, 2024. Months later, in October 2024, a judge issued a default trial in his favor, which determined that Le’veon was “attended to according to the law and could not move, worry or appear otherwise in this action.”
A few weeks ago, a judgment was made to the jury without Le’veon attending to determine the damage. By court documents obtained by TMZ Sports, which the trial saw Jada obtained $ 25 million.
“My customer denies forcefully and all the allegations that have been filed against him,” Le’veon’s lawyer told Tmz Sports, Thomas Shaffer. “In addition, he was never served with a civil complaint or any document.”
Shaffer added that Bell did not live in Ohio at the moment he was allegedly served.
“The default judgment granted was based on violations of his rights of the fifth modification of the process due to not being fulfilled,” he said. “My client is in the process of presenting a motion to open and reverse the default judgment because the merits of the case have never been litigious.”
Le’veon spent eight years in the NFL, gaining more than $ 45 million in his league contracts. After retiring from the sport to 2022The 33 -year -old has pivoted in the professional boxing and has a history of 2-1.
