Overview
- Four additional civil allegations, filed in April and first reported by Rolling Stone, bring the number of women accusing Wiley to seven.
- One accuser, a former ESPN production assistant, says Wiley lured her to a 2009 hotel meeting for work and then assaulted her.
- Another woman alleges Wiley groomed her from age 13 and raped her on her 18th birthday in Dallas, while two others say he raped them in California between 1995 and 1999.
- Wiley denied the claims on his YouTube show Tuesday, saying he has messages and other records that contradict the accounts, and no criminal charges have been filed.
- Plaintiffs are seeking to add Columbia University and to certify a class action, with filings asserting the school knew of past complaints; a New York court will take up the request on May 12.