Deshaun Watson is about to be strike with a 24th lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct.
Attorney Tony Buzbee instructed Cleveland.com that another massage therapist will file the civil suit on Monday. The news arrives much less than a week immediately after Buzbee’s shopper Nia Smith filed the 23rd lawsuit against the Browns quarterback on Tuesday.
News of the lawsuit also arrived on the exact same day that Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, issued a statement clarifying the “happy ending” comments he manufactured throughout a Houston radio interview.
“I really do not know how numerous men are out there now that have had a massage that possibly often there was a happy ending, alright?” Hardin explained. “Maybe there’s no person in your listening audience that that never occurred to. I do want to place out, if it has took place, it’s not a criminal offense, Alright? Except if you are shelling out someone additional or so to give you some style of sexual exercise, it’s not a crime.”
Hardin issued a statement on Friday night clarifying his remarks.
“Deshaun Watson did nothing erroneous,” Hardin wrote. “And as two grand juries have created obvious, Deshaun did almost nothing unlawful. Deshaun has normally acknowledged consensual sexual action with 3 of the plaintiff therapeutic massage therapists after massages. And Deshaun has repeatedly sworn under oath that he did not drive any of his accusers to have sexual make contact with.
“On a Houston radio show interview nowadays, I outlined that a therapeutic massage that has a ‘happy ending’ is not illegal, this means it is not unlawful for a person to have consensual sexual intercourse with a therapist after a therapeutic massage unless the intercourse is for pay out. Deshaun did not pay any person for intercourse. I was applying the term hypothetically and not describing Deshaun’s circumstance.
“I have reiterated to other individuals it’s not okay to do anything that a girl does not concur to do. These ladies have alleged assault in their pleadings. I was speaking in a hypothetical predicament. If there is a consensual sexual encounter after a massage, that is not a crime nor the foundation for a civil lawsuit. I was not talking about what Deshaun did or did not do or anticipated or did not hope.”
In reaction, Buzbee instructed ESPN’s John Barr that Hardin may possibly have expense his consumer the case, “because I’m completely likely to use that remark since I believe it speaks volumes to how he, his team and his client imagine about the massage business.”
It was also exposed previously this 7 days that Watson allegedly offered every single of the to start with 22 plaintiffs who filed go well with towards the quarterback for sexual misconduct $100,000 previous calendar year, but needed an “aggressive” non-disclosure agreement as component of the offer.
Watson, meanwhile, has ongoing to observe with the staff in the course of OTAs as he awaits phrase from the NFL what if any disciplinary motion he will encounter from the league below its personal carry out policy. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said past thirty day period that the league was nearing the conclude of its investigative time period and claimed he experienced no timetable for a selection on a feasible suspension and/or good.
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