Super Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning is trying to enjoy a Mexican vacation — but his pristine reputation just took another hit in the wake of a National ENQUIRER exposé! The quarterback for the Denver Broncos was hiding out with his family in Cabo San Lucas as former female students at the University of Tennessee brought up his shameful past in a sexual harassment suit!
The six ladies invoked their superstar fellow alum in a lawsuit that claimed the University of Tennessee had ignored its female students and created a "hostile sexual environment." To help make their case, they brought up Peyton's embarrassing past, when he was the college's quarterback and the center of a bizarre sexual harassment lawsuit that had to be settled!
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Peyton suffered a brutal legal sacking from Dr. Jamie Ann Naughright, a former athletic trainer at UT. She claimed the college hero pulled down his shorts in an extremely inappropriate manner while she was checking out his injured foot. The school settled the sexual harassment charges for $300,000.
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At the time, Peyton insisted that he was only exposing his buttocks to a fellow football player. The lawsuit, however, said things went way beyond a simple "mooning." Manning maintains he “mooned” a teammate, but Dr. Naughright said he put his genitals on her face as she examined him.
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More specifically, Dr. Naughright testified in a court deposition that: “entirely unprovoked… [Peyton] decided to pull down his shorts and sit on Dr. Naughright’s head and face" — adding: “It was the gluteus maximus, the rectum, the testicles and the area in between the testicles. And all that was on my face when I pushed him up."
Peyton went on to a spectacular career in the NFL — but he didn't learn his lesson about tangling with Dr. Naughright! He had to settled another lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of cash after he wrote in his 2000 book, "Archie Manning: A Father, His Sons, and a Football Legacy," that she had a "vulgar mouth."
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The current lawsuit says that the court settlement over Peyton's behavior is an example of how the college demonstrated “deliberate indifference and a clearly unreasonable response after a sexual assault that causes a student to endure additional harassment.”
The once-pristine NFL star is also dealing with other headaches. The ENQUIRER has revealed how Peyton is fighting charges that he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. And we also covered disturbing 911 audio where private investigators hired by Peyton visited Charles Sly — who charged him with drug use — just days before he redacted the claim! The quarterback might be spending more time huddling in Mexico to hide from his bad press, as he continues to say that any human-growth hormones were only purchased for his wife!
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