Two former LSU students say ex-Washington Football Team running back Derrius Guice raped them back in 2016, when the rusher was a freshman on the football team.
The women’s allegations were shared with multiple people at the school at the time, but it doesn’t appear the school investigated, according to a USA TODAY investigation.
Guice’s attorney, Peter D. Greenspun, denied all of the allegations.
“At no time were allegations of physical or sexual assault brought against Derrius during his years as a student athlete at LSU,” Greenspun said in his statement. “To bring up such assertions only after the Virginia charges were initiated certainly calls into question the credibility, nature and timing of what is being alleged years later.”
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He also said the allegations have “no basis in fact” and that Guice shouldn’t be required to make a comment.
“Such speculation and innuendo should not be the basis for Derrius to be required to make any comment at all,” Greenspun said. “But he wants to be absolutely clear. The allegations in this story are just that and have no basis in fact.”
Character concerns seem to have followed Guice at points in his career.
He was expected to be a first-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, but fell to the second round due to concerns about his maturity and accountability.
Guice was cut by Washington on Aug. 7 following his arrest the same day in Virginia on multiple domestic violence charges.
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