Bill Cosby Sues Beverly Johnson for Defamation

On Dec 14, the 78-year-old counter-sued seven other accusers in federal court in MA, denying their claims he drugged and assaulted them and claiming their allegations of defamatory statements by him regarding the accusations were baseless as a result.

It’s no joke: Bill Cosby’s legal team filed a defamation lawsuit against supermodel Beverly Johnson, one of the highest-profile of the more than 50 women who have accused the disgraced comedian of sexual assault.

News of the comedian’s lawsuit against Johnson caught the attention of Hollywood filmmaker Judd Apatow, who responded on Twitter with a series of frustrated and disappointed tweets. Now, Cosby is coming forward and is taking legal action against the fashion icon, saying that she is trying to ruin him in an effort to regain relevance. Cosby, who owns a home near Springfield, recently filed a counterclaim for defamation against seven other women jointly suing him in MA.

Bill Cosby is continuing to strike back at his accusers.

“I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged – and drugged good”, she wrote in the essay.

Check out Beverly Johnson talking about Cosby’s admission that he gave women quaaludes below.

She said Cosby sexually abused her from 1983-87 and paid for her college education until she made a decision to have no more contact with him.

The model’s “false allegations against Mr. Cosby have been the centerpiece of her attempted resurgence and she has played them to the hilt”, Cosby’s lawsuit states.

The suit contends Johnson, 63, has been using the story – first told in a Vanity Fair story and repeated in numerous interviews and a memoir – to try to rekindle her career.

The admission during testimony in a civil case brought by a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, who alleged that Cosby tricked her into taking drugs before he sexually assaulted her. That case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2006.

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.