Bill Cosby will sue seven of the 50 women accusing him of sexual assault, a court has heard.
Cosby’s lawyer announced the move today amidst the ongoing trials which have seen 50 separate women come forth to claim that Cosby drugged and then raped them over a period from 1965 to 2008.
The lawsuit will fall “against defendants Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis, and Angela Leslie for their malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations of sexual misconduct against him,” the lawyer wrote in a statement released to the press.
“Mr Cosby states plainly that he neither drugged nor 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 exact financial gains,” said the lawyer.
The seven women are currently being sued by Cosby for defamation, tortious interference and/or intentional infliction of emotional distress.
“Mr Cosby now requests that the federal court provide him relief from the defendants’ intentional campaign to assassinate his character for their own financial gain by awarding him compensatory and punitive damages to the maximum extent permitted by law…”
The statement called for the seven women to retract their statements from the case.
The claims made against Cosby by the 50 women range from rape, drug facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse to sexual misconduct.
