Lawsuit details student’s allegations against former LSU coach

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A former student who accused former LSU football coach Les Miles of sexual harassment in 2013 has sought a $2.15 million settlement with LSU and Miles, according to documents filed in part of a lawsuit brought by a former athletic department official.

The documents detailed the ex-student’s allegations that Miles groomed, sexually and emotionally manipulated, and damaged her after he recruited her from an LSU sorority to work for him.

They were part of a state lawsuit filed against LSU and Miles last year by former associate athletic director Sharon Lewis, who said she was denied pay raises and was the victim of verbal abuse for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by Miles.

Making outrageous accusations doesn’t make anything true, a lawyer for Miles, Peter Ginsberg, told The Advocate on Friday after the documents were released. Miles has denied allegations that he made sexual advances to students. An LSU spokesperson declined to comment to the newspaper.

Lewis said in state and federal lawsuits filed in 2021 that she was denied raises and verbally abused after reporting that Miles sexually harassed female students and made racist remarks.

A spokeswoman for Lewis said in an email that the documents would be the focus of arguments “at the state’s next trial hearing on Monday. She provided copies of the documents, including a transcript of eight pages of student allegations by Houston attorney Charles Peckham, dated May 2013.

The account describes the ex-student, whose name has been redacted, as being instantly infatuated with Miles’ attention before and after she was hired. But she was stunned when Miles, after arranging to be alone with her, reached under the back of her blouse and kissed her, forcibly kissing her after she pulled back.

Miles guided the 2007 LSU team to a national title and was fired in 2016 as the team’s performance waned. Miles lost a job in 2021 at Kansas after LSU released a report he commissioned on how officials handled sexual misconduct cases.

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