April 22, 2025 • 21 mins
Today on the show Loren LoRosa gets into the facts about Shannon Sharpe's recent sexual assault case, which he is being sued for 50 million dollars! She also, goes outside in the tweets to get the listeners opinion about the case. Later on the episode, Loren also relates to Tracee Ellis Ross on recent comments about dating.
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Speaker 1 (03:01):
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Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now today we're giving y'all the latest on Shannon Sharp.
Now Unk They trying to make Unk out to be
the uncle who don't know what no means, which is crazy.
So there is a woman who was accusing Shannon Sharp
of sexual assault. Specifically, she's saying that he violently raped
her and mentally and at some points even physically abused her.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That is what she's alleging.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And because of that, she's asking for fifty million dollars
in damages. Now, there's fifty million dollars breaks up into
a bunch of different things, and we'll get into that.
But this woman, her name is Gabriella Zaniga Zanaga.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And the reason why I know her name is.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Because Shannon Sharp came out and responded to the lawsuit
and specifically named or like, all right, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Y'all want to play ball, Let's play boom. Here's what
we're talking about. Right when the lawsuit was filed, it
was filed Sunday night in Nevada by attorney Tony Busby.
You guys will remember attorney Busby because he has had
his name on some of the Diddy cases. That case
with jay Z that got dismissed. When they filed it,
sis was listed as a Jane Doe and then Shannon
(04:10):
Sharp came out with his response and names her directly
and then gave some more details. Now in her lawsuit,
she is saying that she was raped multiple times and
you know, she was emotionally controlled within a two year relationship.
She does admit, and she says that you know, at
some point in the alleged rape, it was aintal rape
(04:31):
that actually went down like it was very physically violent,
is what she's saying.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
She does admit that there was a relationship at some
point that it was consensual that they Her and Shannon
Sharp had met when she was in the gym. She
says she was thirty years younger than him. She was
about nineteen or twenty, thirty years younger than him, and
he said to her when meeting her, like, Okay, if
you go win this weight loss contest with me, I'll
buy you some new titties. That's how he came on.
(04:57):
And she said that, you know, she wasn't too interested,
but he did a change numbers and eventually she gave in,
and you know, they met up and they hung out
and you know, all of the things. Now, there was
at one point where she says that the first time
that she went to his house, she came there and
he answered the door, didn't even speak to her, just
walked upstairs to the bed. So she followed him because
(05:17):
she didn't know what else to do, and they had
their first sexual encounter there, and she says that like
he put his hand around her neck, and you know,
she's alleging different things from the start. Then she says
that next morning there was a whole situation that went down.
She says that that next morning, after that situation went down,
(05:39):
Shannah Sharp left at four am because he had like
a media hit and this is alleged he had a
media hit or something like that, that he was going
to do a media event of some sort, and he
told her that she had to leave because he was
leaving and to be back.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
At nine that night.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Now, again the first encounter, she's not saying that he
raped her the first encounter. What she's saying is that
things were, you know, there were aggressive. She then says
that she comes back again and she shows up at
nine oh five versus the nine o'clock and she alleges
that she and the Sharp got pissed.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He was going off.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He was berating her, calling her all types of names,
calling her outer names, all different types of things. Right now. Then,
she says, at that point they begin having, you know,
a relationship, even though he was violently threatening her, telling her,
you know, different things he would do to her if
she ever played with his time and disrespected him because
she showed up into his house. They did continue a
(06:32):
relationship of some sort. They're in Vegas both at the
same time at this point, and she says that they
were even together during the whole Instagram live allegedly the
woman named Michelle thing, which really pissed her off because
she's like, yo, we're supposed to be together, and she's like,
you know, this is how he would control her. He
would lie about not being with other women and things
of that nature. So she didn't want to be with
(06:53):
them anymore. She tried to cut them off. There was
a time where, she says, after this, she had actually
met up with him and she turned on her phone
location just so her friends could know where she was
at because she had told him that she didn't want
to be with them anymore, and she alleged that Shannon
Sharp was pissed off about that, had threatened to do
things to her and all of the above, so she
turned on her location. When she turned on her location
(07:16):
and he found out about it, he threatened to kill her.
He told her to do not to not ever do
that again, allegedly, and she alleges that Shannon Sharup said
I'll kill you if you do that again.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Right now. She then says specifically, this incident is what
led to him raping her, and.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This was yes, so this was one of the times
that he had violently raped her. This happened back in
January of twenty twenty five, according to these documents. In
what She's allegend, which is very recent now, his legal
team is strongly denying all of this. So they're calling
it fraudulent. They're saying it's a blackmail tempt. His attorney
said that they are ready to fight it in court.
He also Shannon Sharp and his attorneys in his statement,
(07:59):
they put text messages into the statement, not the actual screenshots,
but they were for word tell us some of the
text messages to show kind of like a not even
kind of to show a consensual relationship between the two.
There's conversations about, you know, her wanting him to put
a big black baby inside of him, which is low
key problematic because this is woman white. Because the way
(08:19):
she keeps saying big black baby, I feel like this
is a white woman. And I don't know if that
turns some people on, but it was pissing me off,
Like why the baby gotta be big and black? I
know Shannon Sharp is big and black, but it's like,
all right, like your birthday, a baby, not an animal, Okay, Sis, relax,
But I'm not here to argue about whether I think
race because people do that race baiting thing sexually, and
(08:41):
it turns some people on when they interracially date. None
of my business. That's not what we're here to talk about.
Let's get back to what we're here to talk about.
I mean, so, Shannon Sharp is a legend, Like you know,
she would send things like that. She would text him
about you know, other sexual encounters and different things that
she wanted to go down and think, things that she
was open to. There was money conversation at one point
in time where she talked about, you know, twenty five
(09:01):
thousand dollars for both butt cheeks conversations to get crazy.
But importantly, he mentions that there was a point in
time where there was a video that is being brought
up from her attorneys, and this video allegedly shows a
non consensual sexual act between Shannon Sharp and this woman
(09:23):
right now, the woman, she's alleging that he would record
her and that she caught him doing it, even though
he would try to be low key with it, but
she was scared to say something about it just because,
you know, in the moment, she didn't want to ruin
the moment also too, at this point, he had already
kind of gotten upset with her and gotten you know,
like she was scared. But Shannon Sharp is saying, Yo,
(09:43):
there's this video that we've been shown. But the video
was fully consensual, but the way that it has been
edited is it doesn't read consensual, and it's edited like
that on purpose. So he's saying that he allegedly acts
her attorneys for this fully un edited video and that
they couldn't produce it. And because of that, he feels
(10:04):
like all of this and everything that she was doing
in the video and all that stuff is going to
be used to blackmail him. When I mentioned that fifty
million dollars earlier. I wanted to tell you guys how
that was broken down. So this woman is saying that,
you know, she suffered a lot because of this. So
she wants ten million dollars in general damages, she wants
ten million dollars in special damages, she wants twenty million
(10:29):
dollars in punitive damages, and she wants ten million dollars
in statutory penalties.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It was all good.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
About a week ago, Shannon Shruck was being celebrated in
the conversations were happening about the fact that allegedly he
is in conversation right now for podcast deals over one
hundred million dollars. Now you got that, that's half the
hundred million I wanted try to know. I did reach
out to Attorney Busby, and I did ask some of
the hard questions, like, hey, look, people aren't believing this.
The public opinion is not in your Favorit ine this,
here's what's being said. But we'll talk about this in
(10:58):
depth more on The Breakfast Club. So if you're listening
to this, make sure you go also check out my
coverage of this on The Breakfast Club, where you were
exclusively here. Tony Busby's response to those questions that I asked.
You can also find that on my social media as well.
Moving on on.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Tracy Ellis Ross.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Y'all, Tracy Ellis Strass sat down with Michelle Obama and
her brother Craig Robinson on her In My Opinion podcast,
and she talked about so many different things. She got
really candid about just being a woman who is fifty
two years old, who does not have a husband or
a partner that we know of, and you know, she's
okay with that. No kids, no husband, no, no, you
know what I mean, and she's figuring out her life.
(11:38):
So she talked about a bunch of different things. She
talked about the fact that she only dated younger men
because they're more open to different things, and people took
that out of context. Please go watch the interview, But
one of the things she talked about was you know,
the are you okay with.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me sending alone?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Basically, what Tracy Ellis Ross is talking about in this
interview is the fact that as a woman of her
stature at her age, men her age have this ego
about them, and they also come from a time of
like very traditional like the woman has this traditional like
role in the household, role in the relationship.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Just this these things that you can't break down.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Younger men, she feels like, are more open to different
things because they've come up in a different time now.
The younger men she's talking about would be like, probably
men my age and not a little bit older than me.
So for me, it's like, I understand what she's saying,
but I feel like it depends on how a man
(12:38):
is raised. I mean men my age, men not too
older than me that do still feel like a woman
like me who is very opinionated, who doesn't want to
just sit at home and have babies and don't have
a career, I'm going nowhere in life, like I am
thinking about life completely wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And she says that too.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
She says that, you know, a lot of it is
about how you're raised, what you come from, what you've
been through. But then, of course it don't add that clipping.
I think it sets the tone and it summarizes what
the conversation is. It's like, here's who I'm coming to
the table, as can you accept this? And y'all when
I say, like in dating, y'all know that I've been
trying to figure out this whole like dating thing, and like,
at one point I used to feel like with my
(13:17):
job and with what I'm doing, that is always going
to be hard. It's always gonna be hard for me
to find somebody that allows my star to shine, that
supports my star shining, that just feels like and understands
that sometimes it's not even my fault. The way that
people receive me is not even my fault. It's just
a thing that happens. And when you're a woman, and
you're an attractive woman, you a lot of times when
(13:37):
you get with men, especially, you know, because a lot
of you know, as a woman, you want a man
that can lead you that you can sit back and
kind of you know what i mean, passenger, princess it
up and all of that. If you find a man
that is able to do that, there are stipulations with that,
you know what I mean. You gotta watch what you say,
you gotta watch where you at, you gotta watch you around.
There's just so much that comes with it. And these
(13:57):
are the things that Tracy Ellis Ross is talking about.
I think you can account to them at any age
in any profession, but specifically when you're a woman, of
you know, career stature, financial stature, you're in.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The public eye.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's like men can handle that like they want It's
like you're the shiny thing, like they want it, and
they want to they want to prop you up on
this pedestal and they want you to sit there and
they want it to shine, and it looks great and
it's such a great conversation and you know, it's a
notch on their belt. But when it comes to really
dealing with you and what comes with that, and understanding
(14:31):
that they're not up for the challenge. They're not emotionally
mature enough, they're not secure enough about themselves, about what
they have going on, and then that turns into other things.
That turns into them having to deal with you and
other women to low key almost try and humble you
and to make them feel good. That turns into them
having to be a certain level of control, which is
not healthy after a certain point.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And it just gets real bad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And I always felt like, Yo, there's no way that
I'm gonna find a person who like understands all of this,
and it's also like emotionally mature enough and all that
to support it. It's gonna be like, you know, I'm
gonna have to pick a choose. I'm gonna have to
find somebody who completely knows nothing about any of this
and just be okay with the fact that, like when
I come home at night, they might not even understand
what I'm talking about, but they just love me. But
(15:15):
they're so unfaced and are so disconnected they don't feel
intimidated because they're.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Not even paying attention to it anyway. Because if I get.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Someone who understands it, who sees it, who knows it,
or who is experiencing it for themselves, it's gonna be
intimidating because I'm doing it and I'm doing it well,
and you want that. As a woman, you want somebody
that can match your energy. Like I want somebody that's
doing well too, but I don't know. It always gives
like a man wants someone that's doing good but not
better than him, and even if not better than you,
(15:43):
because I'm okay, we're not doing better than my man.
I'm okay with doing a little bit better than my man,
as long as my man can execute and get to
where he's going.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We good.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Men are not really giving it up like that, Like
it doesn't feel like that anyway, it's always felt like that.
Recently and more recent dating, it's always felt like you're
gonna have to settle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
A little business.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And I think settling now, when you meet the right person,
you're dealing with the right person, isn't about.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Settling for those things.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I think settling in those areas where you have to
either be with someone who's super insecure and dumb yourself down,
or you have to be with someone who's like so
much more successful than you that they look at you
as less than so they're like they're okay, And then
even as your star starts to rise, you got to
kind of try to slow it down because you can't
surpass him. But when you find someone who is able
to kind of be that middle point of the two
(16:34):
where it's like they're really successful, they're doing really well
for themselves, but also too, they're not intimidated by you.
They want your start to shine, they want you to
be an equal partner. They know how to lead and
are not intimidated. Like it changes the game. And I
can tell by listening to Tray Sailors drassa like she's
been trying, but she's kissing some frogs. Been there, done
that since I feel for you I do. It is
(16:56):
hell because you almost start to feel like it's not
my fault that I'm like, what am I supposed to do?
Bad for myself? Bad all by myself forever. No one
wants to be with them by themselves forever. Don't care
what nobody says, nobody does. Felter in this conversation one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So please go.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Listen to that conversation, y'all. Now, as we wrap, I'm
gonna take y'all outside to the streets, to the streets,
to the streets, because y'all know, we gotta get in
the tweets outside, we outside, we outside.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Outside of every other.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Page now and wrapping all of this because before we
get on out of here, right, I don't even know
like what we would have learned today. But before we
get to that point, I do want to take y'all
to Twitter because I think it's something interesting is happening
right now, and I want to ask y'all a question.
This is an unbiased question, so lowriders, listen up. When
(17:48):
I tweeted the Shannon Sharp lawsuit, it has almost two
hundred thousand views. There's a lot of conversation happening around this.
I want to read to you guys three replies that
sum up majority of the replies that I saw on
my Twitter when I posted this. So Fly Money Underscore
(18:08):
said soon as they said he was getting a hundred
million dollars, this comes out shaking my head. B Draguar.
Brennan Jaguar says they've heard about his new deal. This
has to be a way to go. There has to
be a way to go after these frauds. So this
person is alleging that this woman who is accusing Shannon
Sharp of sexual assault is a fraud. T. Jones says
(18:33):
they heard he was nearing a deal worth one hundred
m's and how ironic this accusation appears.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Asking for fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I want to ask you guys, do you guys think
that because of the culture right now where you have
Because again we don't know whether this woman accusing Shannon
Sharp of these allegations is telling the truth or not.
Nothing has been proven in court or anything like that yet,
removing it from this conversation, but using this conversation sparked
(19:01):
this question. I'm about to ask you guys, do you
guys still believe that believe all women believe all women
is right. I think we have finally come to a
point where people are wanting to have this conversation, but
men can't do it because it sounds like victim blaming.
Women can't do it per se, because when a woman
(19:23):
is telling the truth, we do want to believe her
and I will stand by that. Like, if a woman
is telling the truth about something, I'm gonna believe her, right,
But when she's not and it is damaging, it ruins
someone's life. So, really, really, really real question for you guys,
low writers, Please make sure you tweet me about this,
(19:43):
you Instagram, you talk about this on your Facebook and
tag me at Laura la Rosa. Everywhere is believe all women.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Still right? Is that still culturally something that is right?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Or do you feel like culture is shifting right now
because because of these you know, lawsuits that have come
out that have been dismissed where evidence has shown that,
you know, things in these cases weren't as thurdy as
they seem to be when the you know, the headlines broke.
I would love to hear how you have to how
you feel about this. You know the consensus from what
(20:17):
I'm feeling after tweeting this lawsuit. It's like, dang, like
people came out instantly. Normally with these things, when I'm
tweeting about these cases and I'm talking about them, it's divided.
You see people on both sides and in their debating,
and you know, people on both sides always have their
points and I listen to all points. But this time,
this time around, people were very quick to be like,
(20:39):
hold up, wait, and I think you know, of course,
Attorney Tony Busby doesn't have the best reputation in the
public eye right now because of you know, the things
that were lacking thereof when it came to the jay
Z allegations and that sexual solt allegation that I think
that plays a lot into it. But I want to
know how you feel, so let me know. I'm not
(21:01):
going to answer it. Tweet me at Laura La Rose.
I want to hear from you. I'm Laura Rose on
Instagram as well. I want to hear from you. And
I mean, normally this is the time where we talk
about what we learned from this episode, but it's been
so much. I don't know, Patrick, you gotta takeaway today,
I don't I think it's just you know people are
really wanting to get down to the facts of the things.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm Laura l Rosa. This is the latest with Laura
l Rosa.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
At the end of the day, I always tell you, guys,
y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all of
these things, but you are right here with me, and
every single time you are I truly appreciate it. I'm
the homeguard that knows a bit about everything and everybody.
I'll see you, guys in my next episode.
Speaks to the planet.
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I'll go by the name of Charlamagne of God and
guess what, I can't wait to see y'all at the
third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming
back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Poeman
Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions, Decisions Man,
DyB and Weezy. Okay, we got the R and B
Money podcast. We're taking Jay Valentine. We got the Women
of All Podcasts with Saray Jake Roberts, we got Good
(00:23):
Mom's Bad Choices. Carrie Champion will be there with her
next sports podcast, and the Trap Nerds podcast with more
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Jewis I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in hot, Yes, welcome on back.
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Yard. I'm Lauren LaRosa. This is the latest with Lord
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This is your daily dig on everything pop culture in
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I would say, did y'all miss me?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But y'all be hearing me every day, so okay, uh,
but today, I mean, there is so much to get
into now. Before we get started, we're gonna do a
little check in. We want to know, you know, how
is everybody feeling, Katrick? How you feeling today? How was
your trip? Tell the people were where were you?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
What was I don't even know where? You was at
Atlanta and Atlanta doing some work. Ho Atlanta, Hot Lanta.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm going there this weekend for uh the Black Effect
Podcast Festival. I will be hosting the Creators Conversation that stage.
I love Hot Leanta. Atlanta is so fun. I always
have such a good time when.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I go there. How you feeling? I feel good? I
feel really really good.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
We've onboarded a few more members to the team, so
you know, things are building out, things are growing. I
feel busy and that is such a blessing. I'm in
great spirits. I have no complaints. I'm feeling like a
boss today, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
we had like meetings this morning and like you know,
just onboarding people and things are up in it and
(02:19):
I feel like we found our voice. And I've said
this multiple times, but I think we where we need
to be when we need to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So that is very exciting to me, very exciting to me. Y'all.
Thank y'all. Shout out to y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Let's clap it up for the viewers, the listeners, all
of the producers and the writers and the creators and
the comments who be throwing a little you know what
I mean, Hey, I think this. I think that I
interact with y'all. I see y'all in y'all are our community.
So shout out to the lowriders.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm feeling goods Okay, feeling good, looking good. Period.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Now let's get on into the latest, because baby, there
is a lot to talk about today. Laura La Rosa
with the dockets, Okay, that's what they about to start
calling me, because y'all know I love.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
To take y'all a cord. I love to take y'all
a Cord.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now today we're giving y'all the latest on Shannon Sharp.
Now Unk They trying to make Unk out to be
the uncle who don't know what no means, which is crazy.
So there is a woman who was accusing Shannon Sharp
of sexual assault. Specifically, she's saying that he violently raped
her and mentally and at some points even physically abused her.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That is what she's alleging.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And because of that, she's asking for fifty million dollars
in damages. Now, there's fifty million dollars breaks up into
a bunch of different things, and we'll get into that.
But this woman, her name is Gabriella Zaniga Zanaga.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And the reason why I know her name is.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Because Shannon Sharp came out and responded to the lawsuit
and specifically named or like, all right, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Y'all want to play ball, Let's play boom. Here's what
we're talking about. Right when the lawsuit was filed, it
was filed Sunday night in Nevada by attorney Tony Busby.
You guys will remember attorney Busby because he has had
his name on some of the Diddy cases. That case
with jay Z that got dismissed. When they filed it,
sis was listed as a Jane Doe and then Shannon
(04:10):
Sharp came out with his response and names her directly
and then gave some more details. Now in her lawsuit,
she is saying that she was raped multiple times and
you know, she was emotionally controlled within a two year relationship.
She does admit, and she says that you know, at
some point in the alleged rape, it was aintal rape
(04:31):
that actually went down like it was very physically violent,
is what she's saying.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
She does admit that there was a relationship at some
point that it was consensual that they Her and Shannon
Sharp had met when she was in the gym. She
says she was thirty years younger than him. She was
about nineteen or twenty, thirty years younger than him, and
he said to her when meeting her, like, Okay, if
you go win this weight loss contest with me, I'll
buy you some new titties. That's how he came on.
(04:57):
And she said that, you know, she wasn't too interested,
but he did a change numbers and eventually she gave in,
and you know, they met up and they hung out
and you know, all of the things. Now, there was
at one point where she says that the first time
that she went to his house, she came there and
he answered the door, didn't even speak to her, just
walked upstairs to the bed. So she followed him because
(05:17):
she didn't know what else to do, and they had
their first sexual encounter there, and she says that like
he put his hand around her neck, and you know,
she's alleging different things from the start. Then she says
that next morning there was a whole situation that went down.
She says that that next morning, after that situation went down,
(05:39):
Shannah Sharp left at four am because he had like
a media hit and this is alleged he had a
media hit or something like that, that he was going
to do a media event of some sort, and he
told her that she had to leave because he was
leaving and to be back.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
At nine that night.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Now, again the first encounter, she's not saying that he
raped her the first encounter. What she's saying is that
things were, you know, there were aggressive. She then says
that she comes back again and she shows up at
nine oh five versus the nine o'clock and she alleges
that she and the Sharp got pissed.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He was going off.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He was berating her, calling her all types of names,
calling her outer names, all different types of things. Right now. Then,
she says, at that point they begin having, you know,
a relationship, even though he was violently threatening her, telling her,
you know, different things he would do to her if
she ever played with his time and disrespected him because
she showed up into his house. They did continue a
(06:32):
relationship of some sort. They're in Vegas both at the
same time at this point, and she says that they
were even together during the whole Instagram live allegedly the
woman named Michelle thing, which really pissed her off because
she's like, yo, we're supposed to be together, and she's like,
you know, this is how he would control her. He
would lie about not being with other women and things
of that nature. So she didn't want to be with
(06:53):
them anymore. She tried to cut them off. There was
a time where, she says, after this, she had actually
met up with him and she turned on her phone
location just so her friends could know where she was
at because she had told him that she didn't want
to be with them anymore, and she alleged that Shannon
Sharp was pissed off about that, had threatened to do
things to her and all of the above, so she
turned on her location. When she turned on her location
(07:16):
and he found out about it, he threatened to kill her.
He told her to do not to not ever do
that again, allegedly, and she alleges that Shannon Sharup said
I'll kill you if you do that again.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Right now. She then says specifically, this incident is what
led to him raping her, and.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This was yes, so this was one of the times
that he had violently raped her. This happened back in
January of twenty twenty five, according to these documents. In
what She's allegend, which is very recent now, his legal
team is strongly denying all of this. So they're calling
it fraudulent. They're saying it's a blackmail tempt. His attorney
said that they are ready to fight it in court.
He also Shannon Sharp and his attorneys in his statement,
(07:59):
they put text messages into the statement, not the actual screenshots,
but they were for word tell us some of the
text messages to show kind of like a not even
kind of to show a consensual relationship between the two.
There's conversations about, you know, her wanting him to put
a big black baby inside of him, which is low
key problematic because this is woman white. Because the way
(08:19):
she keeps saying big black baby, I feel like this
is a white woman. And I don't know if that
turns some people on, but it was pissing me off,
Like why the baby gotta be big and black? I
know Shannon Sharp is big and black, but it's like,
all right, like your birthday, a baby, not an animal, Okay, Sis, relax,
But I'm not here to argue about whether I think
race because people do that race baiting thing sexually, and
(08:41):
it turns some people on when they interracially date. None
of my business. That's not what we're here to talk about.
Let's get back to what we're here to talk about.
I mean, so, Shannon Sharp is a legend, Like you know,
she would send things like that. She would text him
about you know, other sexual encounters and different things that
she wanted to go down and think, things that she
was open to. There was money conversation at one point
in time where she talked about, you know, twenty five
(09:01):
thousand dollars for both butt cheeks conversations to get crazy.
But importantly, he mentions that there was a point in
time where there was a video that is being brought
up from her attorneys, and this video allegedly shows a
non consensual sexual act between Shannon Sharp and this woman
(09:23):
right now, the woman, she's alleging that he would record
her and that she caught him doing it, even though
he would try to be low key with it, but
she was scared to say something about it just because,
you know, in the moment, she didn't want to ruin
the moment also too, at this point, he had already
kind of gotten upset with her and gotten you know,
like she was scared. But Shannon Sharp is saying, Yo,
(09:43):
there's this video that we've been shown. But the video
was fully consensual, but the way that it has been
edited is it doesn't read consensual, and it's edited like
that on purpose. So he's saying that he allegedly acts
her attorneys for this fully un edited video and that
they couldn't produce it. And because of that, he feels
(10:04):
like all of this and everything that she was doing
in the video and all that stuff is going to
be used to blackmail him. When I mentioned that fifty
million dollars earlier. I wanted to tell you guys how
that was broken down. So this woman is saying that,
you know, she suffered a lot because of this. So
she wants ten million dollars in general damages, she wants
ten million dollars in special damages, she wants twenty million
(10:29):
dollars in punitive damages, and she wants ten million dollars
in statutory penalties.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It was all good.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
About a week ago, Shannon Shruck was being celebrated in
the conversations were happening about the fact that allegedly he
is in conversation right now for podcast deals over one
hundred million dollars. Now you got that, that's half the
hundred million I wanted try to know. I did reach
out to Attorney Busby, and I did ask some of
the hard questions, like, hey, look, people aren't believing this.
The public opinion is not in your Favorit ine this,
here's what's being said. But we'll talk about this in
(10:58):
depth more on The Breakfast Club. So if you're listening
to this, make sure you go also check out my
coverage of this on The Breakfast Club, where you were
exclusively here. Tony Busby's response to those questions that I asked.
You can also find that on my social media as well.
Moving on on.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Tracy Ellis Ross.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Y'all, Tracy Ellis Strass sat down with Michelle Obama and
her brother Craig Robinson on her In My Opinion podcast,
and she talked about so many different things. She got
really candid about just being a woman who is fifty
two years old, who does not have a husband or
a partner that we know of, and you know, she's
okay with that. No kids, no husband, no, no, you
know what I mean, and she's figuring out her life.
(11:38):
So she talked about a bunch of different things. She
talked about the fact that she only dated younger men
because they're more open to different things, and people took
that out of context. Please go watch the interview, But
one of the things she talked about was you know,
the are you okay with.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me sending alone?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Basically, what Tracy Ellis Ross is talking about in this
interview is the fact that as a woman of her
stature at her age, men her age have this ego
about them, and they also come from a time of
like very traditional like the woman has this traditional like
role in the household, role in the relationship.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Just this these things that you can't break down.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Younger men, she feels like, are more open to different
things because they've come up in a different time now.
The younger men she's talking about would be like, probably
men my age and not a little bit older than me.
So for me, it's like, I understand what she's saying,
but I feel like it depends on how a man
(12:38):
is raised. I mean men my age, men not too
older than me that do still feel like a woman
like me who is very opinionated, who doesn't want to
just sit at home and have babies and don't have
a career, I'm going nowhere in life, like I am
thinking about life completely wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And she says that too.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
She says that, you know, a lot of it is
about how you're raised, what you come from, what you've
been through. But then, of course it don't add that clipping.
I think it sets the tone and it summarizes what
the conversation is. It's like, here's who I'm coming to
the table, as can you accept this? And y'all when
I say, like in dating, y'all know that I've been
trying to figure out this whole like dating thing, and like,
at one point I used to feel like with my
(13:17):
job and with what I'm doing, that is always going
to be hard. It's always gonna be hard for me
to find somebody that allows my star to shine, that
supports my star shining, that just feels like and understands
that sometimes it's not even my fault. The way that
people receive me is not even my fault. It's just
a thing that happens. And when you're a woman, and
you're an attractive woman, you a lot of times when
(13:37):
you get with men, especially, you know, because a lot
of you know, as a woman, you want a man
that can lead you that you can sit back and
kind of you know what i mean, passenger, princess it
up and all of that. If you find a man
that is able to do that, there are stipulations with that,
you know what I mean. You gotta watch what you say,
you gotta watch where you at, you gotta watch you around.
There's just so much that comes with it. And these
(13:57):
are the things that Tracy Ellis Ross is talking about.
I think you can account to them at any age
in any profession, but specifically when you're a woman, of
you know, career stature, financial stature, you're in.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The public eye.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's like men can handle that like they want It's
like you're the shiny thing, like they want it, and
they want to they want to prop you up on
this pedestal and they want you to sit there and
they want it to shine, and it looks great and
it's such a great conversation and you know, it's a
notch on their belt. But when it comes to really
dealing with you and what comes with that, and understanding
(14:31):
that they're not up for the challenge. They're not emotionally
mature enough, they're not secure enough about themselves, about what
they have going on, and then that turns into other things.
That turns into them having to deal with you and
other women to low key almost try and humble you
and to make them feel good. That turns into them
having to be a certain level of control, which is
not healthy after a certain point.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And it just gets real bad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And I always felt like, Yo, there's no way that
I'm gonna find a person who like understands all of this,
and it's also like emotionally mature enough and all that
to support it. It's gonna be like, you know, I'm
gonna have to pick a choose. I'm gonna have to
find somebody who completely knows nothing about any of this
and just be okay with the fact that, like when
I come home at night, they might not even understand
what I'm talking about, but they just love me. But
(15:15):
they're so unfaced and are so disconnected they don't feel
intimidated because they're.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Not even paying attention to it anyway. Because if I get.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Someone who understands it, who sees it, who knows it,
or who is experiencing it for themselves, it's gonna be
intimidating because I'm doing it and I'm doing it well,
and you want that. As a woman, you want somebody
that can match your energy. Like I want somebody that's
doing well too, but I don't know. It always gives
like a man wants someone that's doing good but not
better than him, and even if not better than you,
(15:43):
because I'm okay, we're not doing better than my man.
I'm okay with doing a little bit better than my man,
as long as my man can execute and get to
where he's going.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We good.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Men are not really giving it up like that, Like
it doesn't feel like that anyway, it's always felt like that.
Recently and more recent dating, it's always felt like you're
gonna have to settle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
A little business.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And I think settling now, when you meet the right person,
you're dealing with the right person, isn't about.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Settling for those things.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I think settling in those areas where you have to
either be with someone who's super insecure and dumb yourself down,
or you have to be with someone who's like so
much more successful than you that they look at you
as less than so they're like they're okay, And then
even as your star starts to rise, you got to
kind of try to slow it down because you can't
surpass him. But when you find someone who is able
to kind of be that middle point of the two
(16:34):
where it's like they're really successful, they're doing really well
for themselves, but also too, they're not intimidated by you.
They want your start to shine, they want you to
be an equal partner. They know how to lead and
are not intimidated. Like it changes the game. And I
can tell by listening to Tray Sailors drassa like she's
been trying, but she's kissing some frogs. Been there, done
that since I feel for you I do. It is
(16:56):
hell because you almost start to feel like it's not
my fault that I'm like, what am I supposed to do?
Bad for myself? Bad all by myself forever. No one
wants to be with them by themselves forever. Don't care
what nobody says, nobody does. Felter in this conversation one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So please go.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Listen to that conversation, y'all. Now, as we wrap, I'm
gonna take y'all outside to the streets, to the streets,
to the streets, because y'all know, we gotta get in
the tweets outside, we outside, we outside.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Outside of every other.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Page now and wrapping all of this because before we
get on out of here, right, I don't even know
like what we would have learned today. But before we
get to that point, I do want to take y'all
to Twitter because I think it's something interesting is happening
right now, and I want to ask y'all a question.
This is an unbiased question, so lowriders, listen up. When
(17:48):
I tweeted the Shannon Sharp lawsuit, it has almost two
hundred thousand views. There's a lot of conversation happening around this.
I want to read to you guys three replies that
sum up majority of the replies that I saw on
my Twitter when I posted this. So Fly Money Underscore
(18:08):
said soon as they said he was getting a hundred
million dollars, this comes out shaking my head. B Draguar.
Brennan Jaguar says they've heard about his new deal. This
has to be a way to go. There has to
be a way to go after these frauds. So this
person is alleging that this woman who is accusing Shannon
Sharp of sexual assault is a fraud. T. Jones says
(18:33):
they heard he was nearing a deal worth one hundred
m's and how ironic this accusation appears.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Asking for fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I want to ask you guys, do you guys think
that because of the culture right now where you have
Because again we don't know whether this woman accusing Shannon
Sharp of these allegations is telling the truth or not.
Nothing has been proven in court or anything like that yet,
removing it from this conversation, but using this conversation sparked
(19:01):
this question. I'm about to ask you guys, do you
guys still believe that believe all women believe all women
is right. I think we have finally come to a
point where people are wanting to have this conversation, but
men can't do it because it sounds like victim blaming.
Women can't do it per se, because when a woman
(19:23):
is telling the truth, we do want to believe her
and I will stand by that. Like, if a woman
is telling the truth about something, I'm gonna believe her, right,
But when she's not and it is damaging, it ruins
someone's life. So, really, really, really real question for you guys,
low writers, Please make sure you tweet me about this,
(19:43):
you Instagram, you talk about this on your Facebook and
tag me at Laura la Rosa. Everywhere is believe all women.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Still right? Is that still culturally something that is right?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Or do you feel like culture is shifting right now
because because of these you know, lawsuits that have come
out that have been dismissed where evidence has shown that,
you know, things in these cases weren't as thurdy as
they seem to be when the you know, the headlines broke.
I would love to hear how you have to how
you feel about this. You know the consensus from what
(20:17):
I'm feeling after tweeting this lawsuit. It's like, dang, like
people came out instantly. Normally with these things, when I'm
tweeting about these cases and I'm talking about them, it's divided.
You see people on both sides and in their debating,
and you know, people on both sides always have their
points and I listen to all points. But this time,
this time around, people were very quick to be like,
(20:39):
hold up, wait, and I think you know, of course,
Attorney Tony Busby doesn't have the best reputation in the
public eye right now because of you know, the things
that were lacking thereof when it came to the jay
Z allegations and that sexual solt allegation that I think
that plays a lot into it. But I want to
know how you feel, so let me know. I'm not
(21:01):
going to answer it. Tweet me at Laura La Rose.
I want to hear from you. I'm Laura Rose on
Instagram as well. I want to hear from you. And
I mean, normally this is the time where we talk
about what we learned from this episode, but it's been
so much. I don't know, Patrick, you gotta takeaway today,
I don't I think it's just you know people are
really wanting to get down to the facts of the things.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm Laura l Rosa. This is the latest with Laura
l Rosa.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
At the end of the day, I always tell you, guys,
y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all of
these things, but you are right here with me, and
every single time you are I truly appreciate it. I'm
the homeguard that knows a bit about everything and everybody.
I'll see you, guys in my next episode.
Host
Loren LoRosa
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