Bill Cosby Rings in the Holidays By Suing Beverly Johnson for Defamation

The Bill Cosby sexual assault scandal got a whole new storyline when famed supermodel Beverly Johnson came forward claiming that she was almost a victim.

Cosby’s response comes in the wake of counterclaims his attorneys filed last week in a MA federal court against seven women who are suing him there for defamation.

Cosby – who has not been charged with a crime – has denied sexually assaulting women.

A Las Vegas casting agent has joined the growing number of women filing suit in MA claiming they’ve been defamed by Bill Cosby. According to Cosby these are attempts to “assassinate” his reputation and is nothing more than Johnson’s attempt to, “thrust herself back into the spotlight in an attempt to revive her flagging career as a model, actress and public personality”.

“I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged – and drugged good”, she wrote. Back in Los Angeles, Cosby’s also battling back and forth with Janice Dickinson over her defamation lawsuit against him.

She filed for defamation after Cosby, his lawyer and his wife said in the media that her accusations were not true. Cosby is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, a permanent injunction to stop Johnson from continuing to publish her allegations, and a public statement by Johnson in which she retracts her allegations against Cosby.

According to court documents filed in LA Superior Court, Cosby’s suit says he never spent time alone with Johnson at his home. Last week, he filed a countersuit against seven women suing him for defamation, accusing them of making false accusations for financial gain. She said she realized what was happening and screamed at Cosby, who then allegedly took her to a cab.

Court documents unsealed in July showed that Cosby testified in a 2005 deposition that he had obtained Quaaludes pills with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.

Cosby, 78, has yet to respond publicly to Ms Hill’s allegations that he drugged and had sex with her several times after they met on the TV show Picture Pages in 1983.

But Cosby’s attorneys say those statements don’t refer to Hill by name or otherwise specifically – and say even if they did, they are protected speech.