Deshaun Watson signed a 5 year $230 million fully guaranteed deal after he was traded to the Browns this offseason and it didn’t make fans happy.
Doesn’t really matter though because he’s officially a part of the team as he attended his first voluntary offseason workout a couple of days ago.
This all comes as his civil cases start to heat up.
Watson is still being sued by 22 women for sexual misconduct and will have to deal with that and a possible suspension as he starts his career with a new team. According to USA Today, more details are starting to come out. Particularly ones from where he’s accused of taking the women, the Houstonian.
It’s called The Houstonian, an upscale hotel and club that once served as the residence of former President George H.W. Bush. According to court records, Watson had an account there, liked to get massages there in his room and had his marketing manager arrange those rooms in advance.
And now it’s part of the fight for pretrial evidence after 22 women sued him last year and accused him of sexual misconduct during massage sessions, including the two at The Houstonian, according to court documents filed recently in Houston.
Watson’s activity there has been subject to increased scrutiny in recent weeks as the pretrial discovery process has intensified. In one case, two weeks after meeting a woman on Instagram, he flew her in from Atlanta to give him a massage in his suite at The Houstonian, where she said he exposed himself and caused his genitals to touch her inappropriately on Aug. 28, 2020, according to her lawsuit against him.
Instead of arranging to have this unlicensed therapist come all the way to Houston, there were easier massage options available to him that day, when his team, the Houston Texans, did not practice after holding a scrimmage the day before. The Houstonian offered professional luxury massage spa services at the Solaya Spa & Salon by The Houstonian, just three miles away from the hotel. The hotel even provided a free shuttle to get there and back, plus discounts to all guests in 2020 and gifts with treatments to hotel guests, according to the hotel.
Watson suggested another unlicensed therapist come to his suite at The Houstonian in July 2020, weeks before Texans training camp opened on Aug. 14, 2020. He first contacted this woman on Snapchat and saw the women for four sessions from July to September 2020, with Watson’s behavior getting “progressively worse,” including exposing himself, touching her with his genitals and ejaculating in front of her, according to her lawsuit
Watson was cleared in the criminal case but the civil cases are set to start later this year so we’ll see how he deals with it and if he’ll be suspended.
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