Le’Veon Bell Denies Rape Allegations After Alleged Sufferer Will get $25 Million Verdict
Revealed March 11, 2025 11:28 AM PDT | Up to date March 12, 2025 6:29 AM PDT
Le’Veon Bell is vehemently denying a lady’s claims he raped her for years when she was once a youngster … together with his legal professional telling TMZ Sports activities the default judgment within the alleged sufferer’s want is totally “bogus.”
Jada Bell stated in a lawsuit filed in Franklin County, Ohio closing yr that she’s Le’Veon’s cousin … and when she was once simply six or seven years previous, Le’Veon started having nonconsensual, incestual family members along with her.
In keeping with the swimsuit, Le’Veon — who Jada says is 8 years older than her — would use “slang phrases” to direct her when she was once only a minor, which incestual acts he needed for her to accomplish upon him.”
“For example,” the swimsuit states, “he termed oral intercourse ‘hearth.'”
Jada alleged the sexual abuse persisted for kind of a decade — when Bell, an ex-Michigan State tailback, would go back to Ohio “throughout his faculty years and past.” She claims all of it after all ceased when she reached 18 years previous.
Jada submitted her grievance to the courts on March 22, 2024 … and in October 2024, a pass judgement on issued a default judgment in her want ruling that Le’Veon was once “served in step with legislation and failed to transport, plead, or in a different way seem on this motion.”
Two weeks in the past, a jury trial came about in his absence to resolve the damages … and in step with court docket paperwork we received, Jada was once awarded a $25 million verdict.
Bell’s legal professional, Thomas W. Shaffer, tells us … “My shopper adamantly denies any and all allegations which have been lodged towards him. Additional, he was once by no means served with a civil grievance or any paperwork.”
Shaffer says Bell was once now not even residing in Ohio on the time he was once purportedly served.
“The default judgment granted was once primarily based upon violations of his 5th Modification rights of due procedure for failing to be served,” he persisted. “My shopper is within the strategy of submitting a movement to open and opposite the default judgment since the deserves of the case have by no means been litigated.”
December 2024 TMZSports.com
Le’Veon made simply over $45 million in NFL contracts throughout his 8 years within the league. In retirement from soccer, the 33-year-old has gotten into professional boxing, and had just lately set his eyes on a bout with Oleksandr Usyk.
