Sexual misconduct suit against NFL Network names Hall of Famers, analysts past and present
Published 2:45 am Wednesday, December 13, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Fame player arshall Faulk and two other NFL Network nalysts were suspended after a woman ho worked as a wardrobe stylist at the etwork accused them of sexual misconuct in a lawsuit.
The NFL on Tuesday identified the three s Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans. They ave been “suspended from their duties at FL Network pending an investigation into hese allegations,” league spokesman Brian cCarthy said.
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Jami Cantor described several sexually nappropriate encounters with the three reired players and others who have worked or NFL Network, according to court docuents first reported by Bloomberg.
The lawsuit and suspensions are the latst in a wave of sexual misconduct allegaions against prominent men in politics, enertainment and media.
Former NFL Network executive Eric einberger, former NFL Network analysts onovan McNabb, Eric Davis and Hall of amer Warren Sapp, and former NFL Netork employee Marc Watts also are named in the lawsuit.
Weinberger is president of the Bill Simmons Media Group and was placed on leave, according to a statement given to The New York Times. McNabb and Davis now work as ESPN radio contributors.
“We are investigating, and McNabb and Davis will not appear on our networks as that investigation proceeds,” ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said Tuesday.
None of the men named immediately responded to messages seeking comment from The Associated Press.
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Cantor worked at NFL Network for a decade until she was fired in October 2016. In the suit against NFL Enterprises, she alleges age and sex discrimination, sexual harassment that created a hostile work environment, wrongful termination and defamation.
Cantor’s lawyer, Laura Horton, filed an amended complaint Monday to the original suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in October. The amended version includes the names of those accused and details about the sexual misconduct allegations.