Moore's Mistress Fights Michigan for Investigation Records

It’s the legal battle nobody saw coming—or maybe everyone did. Paige Shiver, the former assistant at the center of the Sherrone Moore scandal that torched the Michigan football program last year, just filed suit against the University of Michigan demanding they hand over investigation records they’ve been blocking her from accessing.

Here’s the thing: Shiver isn’t the one trying to hide. The university is. She’s been asking since February 2026 for audio, video, and transcripts from interviews involving herself, her father, and Moore—the ex-head coach whose December 2025 firing sent shockwaves through Ann Arbor. Michigan keeps saying no, first citing an“ongoing investigation,”then calling her requests“overly broad and vague.”When she asked specifically for emails between Moore and athletic director Warde Manuel containing words like“affair,”“discipline,”“pregnancy,”“abortion,”and“baby,”the school claimed they were“exempt information.”

Shiver’s alleging a violation of the Michigan Freedom of Information Act. She’s not wrong to push back. If an investigation has concluded—and Moore’s already been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading no contest to malicious use of a telecommunication device in a domestic relationship and trespassing—then the public records argument gets a lot harder to defend. She wants a court order to force disclosure.

The whole mess centers on their relationship, which resulted in Shiver’s pregnancy and subsequent abortion due to medical issues. Beyond that, she’s claiming sex discrimination and a hostile work environment. It’s a story that’s already cost Moore his job and landed him with criminal charges stemming from an incident at her apartment. Now the question becomes whether Michigan will finally have to open its books, or whether institutional shield laws will keep the records locked away indefinitely.

What’s clear is this: the fallout from Moore’s conduct keeps expanding, and the university’s resistance to transparency isn’t making them look better.