The millionaire has filed court papers counter suing his alleged victims claiming they have made “malicious, opportunistic, false and defamatory accusations of sexual misconduct against him"
The comedian is claiming emotional distress against Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis and Angela Leslie saying the allegations of drugging and then sexually assaulting them is untrue.
Cosby claims their motivation was to put a halt to his return to television and for damages.
In his court filing the 78-year-old claims of the women have caused him shame and mortification by their “morally repugnant conduct.”
A statement from his lawyer read: “Mr Cosby states plainly that he neither drugged no sexually assaulted the defendants and that each defendant has maliciously and knowingly published multiple false statements and accusations from Fall 2014 through the current day in an effort to cause damage to Mr Cosby’s reputation and to extract financial gains.”
Cosby’s defamation suit against the seven women comes after a federal judge in Massachusetts refused to throw out their suit against him in October.
“This was expected,” says attorney Joseph Cammarata, who represents the seven women named in the Massachusetts suit.
“It’s a page out of a defence lawyer’s playbook.
It’s curious to me how there can be scores of other ladies who have come out, and yet Mr Cosby has singled out seven of them to bring a claim against. It’s seems a bit retaliatory to me.”
More than 40 women have come forward to claim they were abused by Cosby including supermodel Janice Dickinson, although many of the cases are untouchable by US law due to the length of time that has passed since he allegedly attacked them.
Source: Complex
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