Bill Cosby Sues Supermodel Beverly Johnson For Defamation

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”.

A Las Vegas casting agent has joined the growing number of women filing suit in MA claiming they’ve been defamed by Bill Cosby. “I ask for your support of all of the victims involved”. This is significant, given the fact that Bill Cosby has iced out questions about all of the allegations, and has distanced himself from the dozens of women that have accused him of sexual misconduct.

Last week, he filed a countersuit against seven women suing him for defamation, accusing them of making false accusations for financial gain.

Johnson, 63, first described the incident in a piece for Vanity Fair magazine, and has recounted it and her angry reaction to Cosby in several interviews and a memoir released in August.

Renita Hill, of Baldwin, sued in October claiming Cosby drugged and had sex with her several times after they met on a children’s educational TV show in 1983. This would include removing the chapter from her book and removing unsold copies with the Cosby chapter from circulation, according to Pressley’s statement. She also detailed the story in her autobiography, titled, The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir.

Pressley filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Numerous women accusing Cosby of rape say that the last thing they remember is drinking a beverage offered by Bill Cosby, and then waking up in various states of undress. Hill claims that went on for about four years, starting when she was 16, and that Cosby helped pay for her college and would fly her to cities where he was performing and provide her with hotel rooms where he’d have sex with her, until she cut off contact with him. Back in Los Angeles, Cosby’s also battling back and forth with Janice Dickinson over her defamation lawsuit against him.

He states that she’s dragging his name through the mud and her accusations are “false, malicious, opportunistic and defamatory”.

Hill’s lawsuit is in the U.S. District Court of western Pennsylvania.