Warren Sapp Arrested On Domestic Battery Charges
It was a chilly night just before Christmas last year when my good girlfriend and I decided to have dinner at Strip Restaurant inside Atlantic Station.
As we checked out the wares of the few vendors willing to brave the cold on a side street, I spotted a couple walking arm in arm past us. I noticed them only because the man looked familiar.
Once inside Strip, we were told we had a long wait for a table. So we went upstairs to wait at the bar area. There, we spotted the same couple lounging at the bar with a group of women. One of the women, Leilani, was a longtime industry associate of mine. So I called her over.
After a brief conversation, she asked me if I knew former NFL player Warren Sapp. I told her I saw him outside and I thought he looked familiar. I asked her if the woman with Sapp was his wife, and she laughed and said no. She told me she hooked Sapp up with a girlfriend of hers while he was in town on business.
She went on to say that Sapp lived on the west coast — and, no, she didn’t think he had a wife waiting for him at home while he galavanted around the A with other women. I jokingly asked Leilani — who sells real estate for a living — if setting up ballers with her girlfriends was a side hustle. But I don’t recall if she answered the question or not.
Now fast forward about 8 weeks.
According to TMZ.com, Sapp was arrested and jailed yesterday in Miami Beach on domestic battery charges for putting his foot on the neck of a woman who claimed to be his girlfriend of two years.
According to the arrest report, the woman claims Sapp allowed her to sleep in his room on Friday night. She said she was rudely awakened around 5 a.m. Saturday morning by Sapp who ordered her to leave. The woman said Sapp snatched her out of the bed and threw her bodily into the hall after accusing her of being with men the night before.
But Sapp had a different story: he told police he allowed the woman to stay in his room — but later on decided he wanted her to leave because “he was expecting company.” He said he was trying to help her and she fell. The woman sustained injuries to her knee and the back of her neck.
So the question is: was this the same “girlfriend” who I saw with Sapp in Atlanta at Strip Restaurant back in December? I wonder only because Atlanta and Miami are so geographically close. And because the strip clubs in the A have been literally emptied out by ballers, rappers and NFL players who flew their favorite dancers to Miami this weekend to entertain them and their boys in their hotels.
Sapp is in Miami doing color commentary for The NFL Network and Showtime’s “Inside the NFL.”
The NFL Network released a statement saying they were aware of the incident and that Sapp will not appear on the NFL Network until they review the matter further. We’re happy to see that The NFL Network takes domestic battery charges so seriously.
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*SMH* Warren I actually thought you were a cool dude…
*sidenote* -Sandra you posted a lot of posts this weekend…..you must have been in a good mood…any who keep up the good work….
Warren, Warren, Warren…….I’m ashamed of you
Does he really believe somebody is going to fall for that BS excuse he came up with?! Niccas today are so triflin’.
OMG.. I’m shocked. Never would have pictured him as a woman beater. My lightweight crush on him is over.
I will reserve my judgement/.02 for now
Happy late birthday Missy….hope you had a good one….
On topic…..smh I hope its not true.
@cinnamon -Today is my b’day.. I celebrated it on Saturday though but thank you for remembering
@Missy HAPPY B DAY! Hope you have a BLESSED DAY!
@Daisy-Thanks so much and I hope you have a blessed day also
@ Missy….I thought it was yesterday…..welp Happy birthday girly.
First Michael Irving and now this…When are these men going to learn. Happy B-Day Missy….
Not surpise at this one bit.. This dude has a temper a really bad one, he known for it. home girl only called the police becuase he was putting her out for the next trick.. these dudes are something else..
Happy B-Day Missy!!!
That is all.
@dcwife and peachizz- Thanks for the b’day wishes
I’m going to reserve what I wanna say about this situation until further information comes out…BUT…I am giving him the “side-eye & pursed lips” face cause something ain’t jiving about his story & the bruise on the back of her neck!! I mean how high was the bed?
Thank ya RENE….
:happybirthay: MISSY I’ll drink to that
@Sangria & Corporate – Thanks y’all and I will continue to have a good day……
What the heck is wrong with these football players? All I’ve been seeing this past couple of week is NFL players being arrested for violent crimes against women. NFL players scare me, I mean seriously this job is to run into somebody as hard as they can.
mehh… either version of their accounts could be true, its hard to take the word of a whoremonger over that of a whore & vice versa.
I mean I can imagine a side ho forgetting she was just that, & getting upset when she’s asked to leave at the buttcrack of dawn after rendering her services & getting her ass whupped or nursing her bruised ego by calling the police and showing unrelated injuries as proof of a scuffle.
Either way I don’t feel sorry for either of them (am I evil for saying so?) This is the miscellaneous fcukery that happens when extra marital affairs come into play.
& Sandra can you please speak on the volumes of female pimps/madams that are teeming the A? They call it hooking up their “girlfriends” with wealthy men or “hiring models” for parties or what have you; but we all know why these women approach/befriend then groom young pretty girls just to farm them out to “ballers” & entertainers. I’ve heard for a couple of years that that model agency owner of Black & Asian descent runs a “full-service” agency. Any truth to it?
Happy Birthday Missy!!! Hope you’re celebrating in style, as a matter of fact I’ll be drinking to you this evening
@Kara- Thanks
and have a drink…. on my behalf 
@karaZ…
I have heard that all the way in Cali, my niece decided to go to college in the A and though she is out and doing well now, she has stories about she and her friends being recruited for parties that were really shady. Thank goodness we got pimps in the family (thought I would never say that smh)..babygirl was quick to sess it all out, gather up her girls and bounce. She also told me about modeling call postings at the student union/house from that same person.
Dang, we have to do better…going after those working on their education, trying to do better.
Warren has a past with relationship ADHD/ADD. Just read on some site his drama with his Ex-wife, “Jamiko Vaughn” how he had two kids by two different women during their marriage.
Also, his ‘bennie-siegal’ looking self was dating reality tv star/model Milan. On the March 24, 2009 season premiere on BET’s reality tv show “College Hill South Beach” and then someone posted this:
“…….he is currently dating a latin & black model in akron ohio name charityluv just heard about it from a co-worker her facebook is under charity burton”.
When I first read this story, I immediately thought he was caught up in bed with a TRANNY after partying all night, and woke up & kicked its butt. LOL and its funny sponsors didnt waste no time dropping his slutting booga-butt.
and supposedly this girlfriend’ of Warrens host some bootleg web-based gossip show, according to her myspace ID: calidymes08
Wow, I didnt know Warren was so nasty & he’s probably got all kinds of frothy diseases. I hope he spends as much time with his kids as he does the skanks.
SMDH…dang Warren!
Awww man, Warren! I really hope this incident doesn’t affect your position as an analyst. I saw yesterday on ESPN how he was suspended pending an investigation. One day these men will learn that these chicks aren’t worth your livelihood (sp).
Shocked and appalled! (Didn’t know of his personal life)