Bill Cosby is currently refuting the claims that were previously made by a woman from Southern California. This woman had actually sued the famous comedian, alleging that he sexually assaulted her 40 years ago at the Playboy Mansion when she was just 15 years old.
Marty Singer, the lawyer of the embattled comic, had also filed papers regarding this issue and released a copy to Us Weekly. According to Singer, the complainant, Judy Huth, who is now 56, attempted to extort Cosby almost 10 years ago by selling the said story to a tabloid.
However, according to Huth, she and her 16-year-old friend were invited to the comedian's tennis club, where they had several drinks. He then allegedly took her to the famous mansion and forced her into "performing a sex act on himself without her consent."
Huth claimed in the suit that she filed that she had "severe and extreme emotional distress" after the alleged incident. She also mentioned that it was only after a few years later when she realized that the incident had a huge impact on her psychologically.
However, Cosby's team slammed Huth's account of the alleged incident, stating that it was "absolutely false." Cosby's hired attorney also claimed that Marc Strecker, the attorney of Huth, had allegedly "made extortionate threats" alongside "ever-increasing demands for a six-figure payday to keep quiet about her long-since-expired claims."
According to Singer' the amount of money that was being asked for ranged from $100,000 to $250,000. Singer requested that a judge dismiss the Huth's suit for multiple reasons. "Plaintiff's first cause of action for sexual battery falls to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action," Singer wrote.
Singer also noted that Huth's suit was not backed up by a psychologist. A psychologist is supposed to certify that Huth did, indeed, experience trauma due to the alleged sexual assault that she had complained about.
