It appears that Warren Sapp won’t get any jail time, after being hit with assault and solicitation charges following a February incident involving a pair of Phoenix prostitutes. Sapp was reportedly ordered to attend a prostitution solicitation diversion program, as well as an anger management class, and he had to pay restitution to the two women.
According to Arizona’s ABC 15, Sapp’s attorney said that the NFL Hall of Famer has already completed the prostitution program and is working on the anger management class, which were conditions of him avoiding jail. TMZ Sports reported that Sapp was ordered to pay one woman $1,171.24 and the other $150.
Sapp had been in Phoenix to help the NFL Network cover the Super Bowl, but he was fired from that job after his arrest. In leaked videos of police interviews, the former defensive tackle was open about having hired the prostitutes for $300 each, but he said that they only had a verbal disagreement over a tip.
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According to a police report, the women claimed that Sapp grabbed one of them and threw her out of his hotel room, knocking both of them down. “I do what I do, but that doesn’t give him the right to put his hands on me,” one of the women told police.
Sapp played in the NFL from 1995 to 2007, with his best years coming in Tampa Bay, where he won a Super Bowl and an NFL defensive player of the year award, before finishing his career in Oakland. The outspoken player then joined the NFL Network, with which he was an analyst until being dismissed in February.
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