Dwight Howard denies sexual assault allegations

Former NBA star Dwight Howard denied sexual assault and battery allegations made against him in a civil lawsuit filed in Georgia in July

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In the latest filing, Howard said he engaged in “consensual sexual activity” with a man named Stephen Harper at Howard’s Georgia home in July 2021.

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Howard admitted in his response that he expressed an interest in meeting up with Harper over the summer in Atlanta after

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they began corresponding over text and Instagram messages beginning in May 2021 — alleged screenshots of which are included in the complaint

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Harper alleged that when the two met up at Howard’s house on July 19, 2021, and after engaging in consensual kissing, a friend of Howard’s arrived.

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Harper alleged in his complaint that Howard said the friend was a man he “has threesomes with sometimes,”

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which Howard denied in his response. Harper alleged he told Howard he did not come to the house to engage in a threesome

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and offered to leave, but Howard “assured (Harper) he would not have to participate in a threesome and convinced (him) to stay,”

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