Peyton Manning Accuser Filed Sex Assault Claim With Crisis Center Hours After Incident

Former University of Tennessee Athletic Trainer and North Jersey native Jamie Naughright was so distraught over an alleged incident with NFL star Peyton Manning that she called a crisis center and had a claim filed, according to new documents uncovered by ESPN’s Outside The Lines.

According to the documents, Naughright, then under her married name of Whited, called the crisis center the same day she was allegedly sexually abused by Peyton Manning in 1996 at the University of Tennessee.

Naughright said Manning pushed his genitals and buttocks onto the athletic trainer’s face while she was evaluating a possible foot injury on the quarterback. Manning has asserted he was playfully mooning a fellow athlete in the training room and the situation was a misunderstanding.

Naughright settled with the school in 1997 after filing a lawsuit that claimed numerous sexual harassment allegations. Under the settlement Naughright received $300,000 but left the university for good.

See related: Peyton Manning: Details Of 20-Year-Old Sex Abuse Allegations Made Public

Naughright’s specific claim against Manning wasn’t brought to light until she filed a defamation lawsuit in 2002 when the athlete referenced the alleged incident in a book he co-wrote with his father.

See related: Peyton Manning: ‘I Tried Apologizing’ To North Jersey Woman After Sex Abuse Claim

In the crisis center claim, which can be seen below, the person who spoke with Naughright checked off the line marking “sexual assault/abuse” and, instead of naming Manning, wrote “very well-known public figure, an athlete at UT.”

The notice also shows the incident was reported to Mike Rollo, who was the head athletic trainer at the time.

The crisis center worker wrote down Naughright’s quotes as well, including:
“I can’t believe this”

“sense there will be a coverup”

Rollo told her tonite, repeatedly – “I don’t think this is best handled by press or police”

“Caller did not want to discuss details of assault over the phone – feared for her job, worried & feared for her life.”

While the incident is now 20-years-old, it was brought back to the forefront when someone sent the 74-page lawsuit to Shaun King, a columnist with the New York Daily News, just days after Manning won his second Super Bowl.

King detailed the suit in a column and questioned why the 2003 court proceedings were not made public by the media, with the only online paper trail to be found in the version of a small brief by USA Today.

Since King’s column, neither Manning or Naughright have spoken on the issue.

Naughright now lives in Florida but had a residence in Hackettstown during the same time as the incident and her family lived in Long Valley for generations. One of Long Valley’s most heavily-traveled roads is named after Naughright’s ancestors, who settled the area in 1793. Her father was a decades-long first aid squad member and firefighter in town.