Former Miami Dolphins player Xavien Howard accused of sharing revenge porn: court documents

FORT LAUDERDALE – Former Miami Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard is being sued for sexual misconduct after one ex-girlfriend and the son of a second ex-girlfriend claimed that the NFL participant publicly shared “sexually express materials” of the 2 girls and others with out their consent.

In line with court docket paperwork offered to CBS Information Miami on Thursday, the 2 plaintiffs — recognized solely as Jane and John Doe — alleged that Howard publicly circulated images and movies of the 2 girls and others having intercourse with the NFL free agent to humiliate them and trigger emotional misery.

CBS Information Miami has reached out to Howard and the Miami Dolphins concerning the allegations. Neither occasion has responded right now. 

The case in opposition to Xavien Howard

In line with court docket paperwork, Howard and Jane Doe was in a sexual relationship; nonetheless, as soon as she refused his advances, the previous Miami Dolphin then publicly circulated sexually express movies of her with out consent, leaving her “debased and totally humiliated.”

In the meantime, John Doe is the son of one other girl who Howard was sexually concerned with; after getting the lady pregnant, Howard allegedly demanded her to get an abortion and after her refusal, he went on a “warpath” in opposition to her. Amongst different “types of revenge” towards the pregnant girl, Howard texted sexually express materials of her to John Doe, who was underage on the time of the incident, inflicting emotional misery to him and his mother, court docket paperwork said.

As victims, the plaintiffs search to carry Howard chargeable for his actions. If convicted, he may very well be charged with invasion of privateness by public disclosure of personal details, intentional infliction of emotional misery, injunctive aid, intrusion of privateness, and sexual cyberharassment.  

Jane Doe

The primary plaintiff, named as Jane Doe, was first contacted by Howard in 2016 after he started messaging her over Instagram. Firstly of 2022, the 2 started relationship earlier than calling it quits in July of that 12 months. Through the course of the connection, Jane and Howard “engaged in sexual relations,” the court docket paperwork alleged.

Round Sept. 25, 2022, Jane Doe then acquired an Instagram message from one other girl who claimed she had “a number of sexually express movies” that Howard despatched her of him having intercourse with varied girls, informing Jane Doe that she may’ve been amongst them and that the opposite girl shared the movies with a 3rd girl, too. Jane then requested the lady for her quantity and requested her to ship the movies so she may see them, which she did on that day.

In line with the court docket paperwork, the a number of texts confirmed the movies that Howard allegedly shared, which included two movies of Jane Doe having intercourse with Howard, and the remainder of the movies exhibiting different girls.

After receiving and seeing the movies, she contacted Howard to seek out out why he shared them. Howard then stated that he shared the movies to “make her mad as a result of she didn’t need to have intercourse with him,” the court docket paperwork alleged. It’s unknown to Jane Doe whether or not the movies had been shared with anybody else or posted to social media, however the plaintiff believes that that was the case. 

In line with the court docket paperwork, Howard had recorded having intercourse with Jane Doe along with her information on one event; nonetheless, he then nonconsensually shared the video with a second girl.

Round Oct. 7, 2022, Jane’s legal professional despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Howard after which on Feb. 8, 2023, he tried to name her, however she didn’t reply.

Then round April 10, 2023, Jane Doe was contacted once more by one other girl by cellphone, who despatched her “a number of different sexually express images and movies” of bare girls that Howard had just lately shared, as soon as once more to “make her mad as a result of she wouldn’t have intercourse with him,” the court docket paperwork alleged. Jane Doe was additionally proven in one of many nude images.

Round Aug. 21, 2023, Howard then filed a movement to dismiss the case on grounds that Jane Doe had a felony arrest report, the court docket paperwork alleged. Round Jan. 29, the court docket denied Howard’s movement.

John Doe

In the meantime, Howard had acquired the cellphone numbers of one other girl’s kids, together with the lady’s son named within the lawsuit as John Doe, as a result of “she would textual content him by her children’ telephones if her personal cellphone battery died.”

She would typically announce to Howard through voice or textual content that her cellphone had died and that she was utilizing certainly one of her kids’s telephones to speak to him, and that she would inform him when to cease utilizing her children numbers’ when she was capable of return to utilizing her personal cellphone. Earlier than returning to her personal cellphone, the mom would delete the texts between her and Howard on her children’ telephones. Because of this, Howard knew John Doe’s quantity, the court docket paperwork alleged.

On one event when Howard and John Doe’s mom had been combating, he texted “sexually express materials” of the lady to her son round Sept. 19, 2022. In line with the court docket paperwork, the son was a minor when this occurred.

Though the mom deleted the content material from her son’s cellphone, John Doe was capable of see it when he logged into his iCloud account when he signed in from a good friend’s cellphone after he was grounded from utilizing his personal, the court docket paperwork alleged.

Howard’s NFL profession

Howard spent eight seasons with the Miami Dolphins, being drafted within the second spherical of the 2016 NFL Draft. Throughout his tenure on the staff, he was a four-time Professional Bowler, a two-time All-Professional member, and led the league in interceptions twice.

Miami launched Howard in February, who nonetheless had three years remaining on his five-year, $90 million contract.

Off the sector, he was sued in 2022 for allegedly giving a lady a sexually transmitted illness, in response to the The Miami Herald.