Marcellus Wiley, the retired NFL player turned sportscaster and podcaster, is facing sexual assault allegations from four more women in newly revealed court filings this month. One of the new accusers is a former production assistant, and the women say Wiley used his Ivy League background and polished public image to win their trust.
The filings come on top of earlier claims already lodged against Wiley. Three other women previously sued him with allegations that he raped them in New York in 1994, when he was a student and star football player at Columbia University. Wiley and his lawyer did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The new accusers made statements signed under penalty of perjury, widening a case that now stretches across years and states. Two of the women say Wiley assaulted them between 1995 and 1999 in California. Another says Wiley lured her to a hotel room in 2009 under the guise of a work meeting, then emerged naked from a bathroom and attacked her.
One of the most detailed accounts comes from a woman identified as Jane Doe, who says she was 13 years old when Wiley first approached her after a visit to her middle school in Buffalo, New York. She says Wiley drove toward her, slowed down and pulled over, lowered the window, called her by name and asked her to come over. She says he later gave her his email address, showered her family with free game tickets and invitations to his Orchard Park, New York, home, and repeatedly asked her to help clean his CD collection.
That woman says Wiley frequently mentioned his sociology degree from Columbia University and called her his little momma. She says he showered her with attention and gifts, and that her whole identity became wrapped up in the belief that she would eventually marry him. On her 18th birthday, she says he flew her to Dallas, where he was playing for the Cowboys, shouted at her in a frightening manner and coerced her into sex. She wrote, “Marcellus Wiley raped me on my 18th birthday, after grooming me from the age of 13.”
The new allegations also revive claims about Columbia’s role. The lawyer for the women alleges the university hid the rapes by Wiley on campus and enabled him to enjoy a reputation of safety, respect and integrity. In a separate filing, a lawyer for Columbia said any injuries allegedly caused by Wiley were “out of the control of Columbia.”
Wiley has pushed back before. After the first lawsuit was filed in 2023, he reportedly called the claims “B.S.” on his YouTube show. In a 2024 court filing, his former lawyer said Wiley denies the allegations that he sexually assaulted or raped any students of Columbia University. Wiley’s lawyer also wrote that he denies committing any of the wrongs alleged, denies that the plaintiffs or any other purported members of the class were harmed by him and denies that the case is properly asserted as a class action.
The latest filings deepen a case that now mixes allegations from Columbia in 1994, California between 1995 and 1999, a hotel room in 2009 and a dispute over what the university knew and when. Wiley, who is married to former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Annemarie Wiley, has not responded publicly to the new claims, and the central question now is whether the filings will draw a fuller response from him, his counsel or Columbia in the days ahead.
