Ex-NFL star Sharper sentenced to 18 years in prison in drug, rape cases

By Kathy Finn

18 August 2016 at 11:14 am

Former National Football League star Darren Sharper (L) and his attorney Leonard Levine appear at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California March 23, 2015. Sharper pleaded no contest on Monday to charges in Los Angeles of drugging four women and raping two of them, after receiving a nine-year prison sentence for a sexual assault case in Arizona. REUTERS/Nick Ut/Pool

Former National Football League star Darren Sharper appears at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, U.S. on March 23, 2015. REUTERS/Nick Ut/Pool/File Photo

Former NFL star Darren Sharper and his attorney Leonard Levine appear at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles

Former National Football League star Darren Sharper (L) and his attorney Leonard Levine appear at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California March 23, 2015. Sharper pleaded no contest on Monday to charges in Los Angeles of drugging four women and raping two of them, after receiving a nine-year prison sentence for a sexual assault case in Arizona. REUTERS/Nick Ut/Pool

Reuters

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Former National Football League star Darren Sharper was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in federal prison in a case that accused him of drugging and raping nine women in four states while working as a television analyst. Sharper, 40, who retired from the NFL in 2011 after helping lead the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl championship, had pleaded guilty in federal court in Louisiana to distributing controlled substances to unsuspecting women and then having sex with them while they were incapacitated. He previously had pleaded guilty or no contest to rape or attempted rape charges in Arizona, California and Nevada. (Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Bill Trott)

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