Bill Cosby Files Counter-Suit Against 7 Of His Accusers

Baller Alert Staff December 14, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Months after 55 women filed claims detailing alleged sexual abuse by Bill Cosby, Cosby filed an 89 page defamation counter-lawsuit aimed at 7 of his accusers. In the suit, filed Monday morning, Cosby is claiming that Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis and Angela Leslie all fabricated their claims of sexual assault. The women originally filed a defamation lawsuit against Cosby in the 4th quarter of 2014.

According to the counter suit, Cosby is claiming that the women purposely attempted to defame his reputation for financial gain. “Counterclaim Defendants’ false statements were defamatory because they held Mr. Cosby up to hatred, distrust, contempt, disgrace, scorn, and ridicule among considerable and respectable segments of the community, including from the media coverage and public reaction to Counterclaim Defendants’ false and defamatory statements,” the claim states.

The suit claims that Cosby “never drugged nor sexually assaulted” the seven women. Furthermore, the suit implies that the claims of the women directly led to the dismissal of Cosby’s proposed deals with #Netflix and #NBC. “Each Counterclaim Defendant induced both NBC and Netflix to postpone or cancel their contracts with Mr. Cosby by engaging in a campaign to assassinate Mr. Cosby’s reputation and character by willfully, maliciously, and falsely accusing Mr. Cosby of multi decade-old purported sexual misconduct in an opportunistic attempt to extract financial gain from their allegations,” states the counterclaim filed.

Cosby’s lawyer Monique Pressley released a statement in regards to suit on Monday. The) defendants’ multi-decade old, false, uncorroborated, opportunistic allegations of sexual assault have caused and continue to cause him to suffer substantial injuries and damages to reputation, business contracts, shame, mortification, damages to property, business, trade, profession and occupation,” Pressley stated.

Sources: Deadline,