On Friday, news surfaced indicating that a former girlfriend of Zion Williamson had filed a lawsuit accusing him of rape, and a wide range of abuse, from physical to emotional.
Eriq Gardner broke the news on social media, sharing images of the lawsuit with users on X, formerly known as Twitter. According to the suit, the two began dating in 2018 when Zion was a freshman at Duke, and continued their relationship through June of 2023.
Allegedly, in September of 2020, when Zion was allegedly living in Beverly Hills for training, his agent picked the woman up from a hotel and brought her to Williamson’s rented house.
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After he got home “late that evening,” the woman allegedly told him that she was tired and wanted to go to bed; however, the New Orleans big man refused, forcing himself onto her.
Additionally, the suit alleges that the forward threatened to have his security guard shoot both her, and her parents on more than one occasion.
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