Bill Cosby Sues Beverly Johnson for defamation, she fires back
It
appears Bill Cosby
is firing back at his accusers one after the other.A week after he filed
a defamation lawsuit against 7 of his 40 accusers, he filed another
lawsuit Monday against supermodel Beverly Johnson, alleging she
lied when she said he drugged and tried to rape her at his
New York
home in the mid-1980s.
home in the mid-1980s.
Cosby's
lawsuit says Johnson joined other women making accusations against him
to revive her waning career and to help sell copies of her memoir.
The
lawsuit alleges defamation and intentional infliction of emotional
distress, saying Cosby and Johnson never spent any time alone in his
house, he never drugged her and "her story is a lie."
Johnson, 63, the first African-American supermodel, first made her
accusation against Cosby in Vanity Fair magazine in late 2014.
She
said that in the mid-1980s, she went to Cosby's residence to work on
acting exercises, including one in which she acted drunk, when Cosby
asked her to have a drink from his cappuccino machine.
"I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I'd been drugged -- and drugged good," she wrote. Johnson said she struggled so much that Cosby took her out of the house and put her into a cab.
Cosby
seeks unspecified damages, an injunction requiring Johnson to retract
her statements, removal of the chapter about Cosby in future copies of
her memoir and removal of the chapter from unsold copies.
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