ESPN has had a wide variety of personalities work for their popular network over the decades. Many of these have been respectable and upstanding people who have put together long careers in sports broadcasting and journalism. Others, though, have been less savory and unpopular, not just because of what they do and say on camera, but what they do in their personal lives.
The latest former ESPN employee to make headlines for all the wrong reasons is former NFL Pro Bowler turned analyst Marcellus Wiley, who was just arrested in Florida.
Former ESPN analyst Marcellus Wiley arrested for domestic violence
According to a report by TMZ, the former ESPN analyst and NFL Pro Bowler was arrested on Saturday, July 4, and booked on charges of domestic violence. Documents acquired by TMZ did not reveal the nature of the incident that led to his arrest. He was held without bond.
Unfortunately, it is not the first time Wiley has made some unsavory headlines this year. Back in April, he was accused by four different women of sexual assault. In May, he denied all the accusations against him. “They are attempting to leverage lies for personal gain, as they say, assassination by accusation, that’s their goal. They trying by lying,” he said on his podcast.
One of his accusers is the daughter of one of his former co-workers at ESPN, who said, “When we went to his room, Wiley excused himself to use the bathroom. He emerged from the bathroom naked. He pushed me up against the windows of the room so hard I thought they would shatter. I was petrified and believed I was going to be killed.
“I repeatedly pleaded with him to stop and to let me go. He would not. He pushed me face down on the bed and kept me there with my face pressed into the mattress in such a way that I had difficulty breathing, which made me fear for my life. Wiley held me down and masturbated over me until he ejaculated. Only then did he allow me to leave the room,” she continued.
After his time at ESPN, Wiley worked for Fox Sports and currently hosts a podcast for the Dan Patrick Podcast Network.
