Former Super Bowl Champ Darren Sharper to Be Sentenced for Serial Rapes

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA -- Former NFL safety Darren Sharper, who pleaded no contest in March to charges of drugging and raping two women he met in a West Hollywood nightclub and also struck plea deals to resolve similar charges in two other states, is expected to to be sentenced Tuesday to up to nine years in federal prison in Louisiana.

Sharper, 39, reached a deal with prosecutors in Arizona and Nevada in March and entered his pleas remotely from Los Angeles. He was transferred to New Orleans to enter another plea to resolve similar allegations there, and he will serve his prison time in a federal lock-up in Louisiana, attorneys said.

Serving the nine years in prison will resolve the cases in all four jurisdictions.

Sharper was charged in Las Vegas with sexual assault charges for having sex with two tourists in January 2014 while the women were incapacitated. Prosecutors said Sharper went club-hopping with the women and took them to his hotel room, where he drugged and sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious.

The account is similar to allegations made against him in Los Angeles and two other cities.

New Orleans officials said he sexually assaulted three women there in 2013. In Arizona, he was charged with drugging three women and sexually assaulting two of them in November 2013 in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe.

A member of the league’s 2000s All-Decade Team and a five-time Pro Bowl selection, Sharper was suspended from his job as an analyst with the NFL Network following his initial arrest.

Sharper played for the Green Bay Packers in 1997-2004, the Minnesota Vikings in 2005-2008 and the New Orleans Saints in 2009-2010. He was on the Saints team that won Super Bowl XLIV in February 2010.

-- City News Service contributed to this report. Photo courtesy of NBC Sports.