Bill Cosby Sues Accuser Beverly Johnson for Defamation

Striking back legally against one of his many accusers, Bill Cosby on Monday filed a defamation suit against model Beverly Johnson, saying that she lied about him in an attempt to “resuscitate her own career”.

Johnson went on multiple media outlets, including Vanity Fair, The View, Nightline, Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, and Larry King, joining the campaign to decimate Cosby’s reputation in order to revive her flagging career as a model and public personality, Cosby argues in his lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The lawsuit also seeks the removal of the chapter on Cosby from future distribution of Johnson’s memoir and demands that unsold copies of the memoir with the chapter on Cosby be removed from circulation.

As of this writing, Johnson has not released any statement about Cosby’s lawsuit.

This lawsuit against Johnson comes a week after Cosby sued seven of his other accusers, also for defamation.

In the court papers, the 78-year-old says he had never dined alone with Beverly, like she had alleged. Cosby insists that he never drugged Johnson, and her claims are completely false.

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In that suit, Cosby claimed that the women made “malicious, opportunistic and false and defamatory accusations of sexual misconduct against him”, as well as “knowingly published false statements and accusations”.

Cosby’s attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Renita Hill, who lives near Pittsburgh and has accused the comedian of drugging and having sex with her several times after they met on a children’s educational TV show in 1983.

Cosby’s lawsuit says the only dinner he and Johnson ever had together was at a NY restaurant with the comedian’s wife present.

“None of what’s in Cosby’s motion is of any surprise at all”.

The wave of allegations against Cosby have scuttled the comedian’s acting projects and live shows in the past year.

The comedian did actually claim last 2005 that he acquired potent sedative Quaaludes to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex with before.

The women’s lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, had argued that he should be able to question Camille Cosby because she was her husband’s business manager.