Wealthy teen soccer prodigy files $100M suit claiming sex harassment, abuse by teammates destroyed his pro career hopes

An up-and-coming soccer star flooded with top-notch scholarship offers left the sport for good after he allegedly endured hazing from teammates so pervasive and cruel that he tried to end his life, according to a bombshell $100 million lawsuit.Jeff Dewsnup, now 22, was just 17 when he played goalkeeper for Real Salt Lake in the United Soccer League, and regularly faced puerile taunts from his adult team members, who ridiculed the size of his penis, waved their genitals at him and pelted his rear-end with soccer balls, the suit alleges.Despite being courted with scholarship offers from elite schools like Stanford, Columbia, Princeton and Wake Forest, and interest from pro teams like Fulham, Crystal Palace and PSV Eindhoven, the alleged abuse got so bad he quit the sport he loved in April 2022.His suit, filed last week in Utah’s Third District Court against RSL, the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer, claims he now suffers from PTSD and will need $20 million worth of psychiatric care to put his life back together.The additional $80 million he’s seeking is to compensate him for the professional career he lost as a result of the abuse.“Plaintiff seeks to hold defendants accountable for … committing intentional acts of abuse that destroyed [his] career and caused him to attempt suicide,” read the lawsuit obtained by DailyMail.Dewsnup comes from a wealthy and successful family, who owns 2,221 acres of land in the Utah mountains valued at some $1.2 million.His sister, Abby Johnson, is a popular author of Mormon-themed literature, and his father, Darin, is managing director for investments at Wells Fargo’s Salt Lake City office with over $2 billion in assets under management.Among the salacious allegations in the suit were that older RSL teammates tormented him in the locker room, exposing themselves and making sexual comments toward the then-teen.“They repeatedly attempted to hit [Dewsnup’s] naked buttocks with a ball, laughing and taunting him w...