Bill Cosby Is Suing the Supermodel Who Accused Him of Drugging Her

Cosby filed another countersuit against seven other women last week, also saying their statements are false and defamatory.

U.S. comedian Bill Cosby (pix) filed suit Monday in Los Angeles against supermodel Beverly Johnson, saying her claims he drugged and tried to assault her were “false, malicious, and opportunistic”, his lawyer said.

Cosby’s defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles calls Johnson’s story a lie and accuses her of using it to try to rekindle her career. Johnson’s allegations did not involve sexual assault, but the actress claims Cosby spiked her drink with an unknown drug during a meeting at his Manhattan residence in the 1980s.

Through his lawyer, Monique Pressley, Cosby also accuses Johnson of making up the allegations in order to “resuscitate her own career and benefit herself financially from the wave of media attention surrounding her false allegations”.

Back in December 2014, the 63-year-old model alleged in an essay posted onVanity Fair’s website that Cosby drugged her in the mid-1980s.

– ReutersComedian Bill Cosby has sued model Beverly Johnson for defamation.

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In 1974, she arranged to meet Cosby socially when they were both in Detroit, and he asked her to get ribs from a restaurant and then pick him up at his hotel for a planned party on a friend’s boat docked in the Detroit River, the complaint said.

“In cases of rape and abuse, abusers will do whatever they can to intimidate and weaken their victims to force them to stop fighting”, Johnson said in a statement. Those women contend Cosby defamed them by allowing his representatives to brand them as liars. Cosby, 78, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing & has by no means been criminally charged.

Earlier this year Atlanta’s Spelman College confirmed that it has canceled a professorship associated with Bill Cosby and returned the money after the Associated Press and the New York Times obtained documents in which Cosby detailed his provision of drugs to young women with whom he wanted to have sex.

In a later interview with the Today show, Johnson explained why she finally went public with her story after so many years of silence.