Juan Dixon Named In Lawsuit For Ignoring Sexual Blackmail Plot Against Student
Juan Dixon Named In Lawsuit For Ignoring Sexual Blackmail Plot Against Student
The Real Housewives of Potomac star Robyn Dixon’s husband Juan Dixon, has been named in a lawsuit for allegedly failing to take action in an alleged blackmail plot of one his players.
Juan Dixon, 44, is the current head coach for Coppin State University in Baltimore.
Allegedly a former Coppin State player is alleging an assistant coach, Lucian Brownlee, catfished the player online into sharing intimate photos and texts and “blackmailed him into videotaping a sexual encounter before publicizing the material when the player resisted further demands for sex.”
Former Coppin State player, Ibn Williams, filed the lawsuit against the former assistant coach in Baltimore City Circuit.
The victim claims Juan Dixon was made aware the blackmail and did nothing, after being informed of Brownlee’s actions
The legal complaint says “by information and belief” Lucian Brownlee, a former guard who served as Director of Player Development and Director of Basketball Operations, harassed, tormented and sexually assaulted the player, Ibn Williams, before publishing intimate material he had obtained from the student.
Head Coppin Basketball Coach Juan Dixon, who is named in the complaint, allegedly failed to take action when informed of the situation.
Also named in the lawsuit filed last week is Coppin State University, whose officials questioned the accuser harshly and retaliated against him by withdrawing previously promised financial assistance.
“The way he was treated was abhorrent,” said Williams’ attorney, Daniel “Donny” Epstein, of the New Jersey law firm Epstein Ostrove, in a phone interview.
Epstein said they were able to build their case despite the anonymous blackmailer purporting to be a third party.
“Our strong belief is that Lucian [himself] was the catfisher,” Epstein said.
Even if Brownlee was just a fellow victim of an anonymous tormentor, “the minute he became a coach, he had an obligation to report” any sexual harassment, Epstein said.
And Dixon, having prior knowledge of issues with Brownlee according to the complaint, should never have placed him in a position of authority over players, Epstein added.
According to the complaint filed in Baltimore City Circuit, Ibn Williams explains how he received a message through social media in the fall of his freshman year, from a woman who seemed interested in a romantic relationship.
He “was enticed into sending images of himself to this person of a sexual nature that [he] believed were private and in the context of a developing romantic relationship,” the lawsuit says.
The online suitor then started blackmailing Williams, threatening to publish the photos and texts unless he provided more salacious material. The texts continued through the 2018-2019 basketball season while Williams, “in fear of losing his place in the basketball program, his tuition and room and board payments. . . continued to respond to the person messaging him in a futile attempt to appease his tormentor.”
“The coach should have known better than to put this person in a position of seniority.”
Coppin, an HBCU in the Maryland State University System, is known as Morgan State’s crosstown rival.
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