Janice Dickinson filed a defamation lawsuit with the Los Angeles Superior Court against Bill Cosby yesterday, due to the emotional distress she has suffered after being accused of falsely claiming that Cosby sexually assaulted her. The legal documents (obtained by Entertainment Tonight) state that after Dickinson accused the cosby of drugging and raping her, he retaliated …
“through an attorney, publicly branded her a liar and called her rape disclosure a lie with the intent and effect of revictimizing her and destroying the professional reputation she’s spent decades building.”
Dickinson is accusing him of defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit says;
“A major component of her popularity and marketability on reality television and in publishing is Ms. Dickinson’s reputation for her colorful, raw, sometimes loud, sometimes vulnerable, but at all times honest ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ personality.’”
In an interview with ET in November, Dickinson said that Cosby had drugged and raped her after inviting her to Lake Tahoe in 1982, and Cosby’s lawyer immediately said it was a…
“outrageous defamatory lie.”
The documents filed go into more detail about what Dickinson claims happened that night, saying Cosby offered her a pill and wine to help with menstrual cramps, even though Cosby knew she had been in rehab a few months before for addiction. The lawsuit claims that he then sexually assaulted her and that, though she told close friends about the incident, she did not tell the police for fear of retaliation. The documents state:
“Cosby acted with reckless disregard for the probability of inflicting humiliation, mental anguish, and severe emotional distress on Ms. Dickinson.”
Dickinson is currently seeking compensatory damages and a trial by jury. That’s what we want to see. Go get ’em Janice. Mr. C, if you did what we think you did, you messed with wrong gal! This is what this case needs –a high-profile celebrity to take this to the media. No matter what, I’ll bet she will NOT settle out of court to make this go away… having said that, Cosby IS worth more than $400 million – and that gets him the BEST (most ruthless) lawyers money can buy. (Photo, Pacific Coast News; via EW)
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