Cosby’s lawsuit contends Johnson has been using the story to try to rekindle her career. It seeks unspecified damages and an injunction preventing the model from repeating her claims that the comedian drugged her with a cappuccino in his New York home in the 1980s.
Johnson, 63, first described the incident in a piece for Vanity Fair magazine, and has recounted it and her angry reaction to Cosby in several interviews and a memoir released in August.
Johnson’s “false allegations against Mr Cosby have been the centrepiece of her attempted resurgence and she has played them to the hilt, repeatedly and maliciously publishing the false accusations in articles, interviews, and television appearances”, the lawsuit states.
A call to Johnson’s publicist, Ann-Marie Nieves, was not immediately returned.
Cosby’s lawsuit states that a dinner described by Johnson was attended by his wife, and he never spent time alone with the supermodel.
The suit comes after counter-claims that Cosby’s attorneys filed last week in a Massachusetts federal court against seven women who are suing him there for defamation. Those women contend Cosby defamed them by allowing his representatives to brand them as liars, reports The Associated Press in Los Angeles.
In the counter-suit, Cosby claims the women made “malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations” of sexual misconduct against him that are “nothing more than an opportunistic attempt to extract financial gain from him”.
Cosby is a defendant in five civil cases filed in Los Angeles, Massachusetts and Pittsburgh. Since late 2014, more than 50 women – most of whom have not sued – have accused the comedian of sexual abuse dating back decades. Cosby has never been criminally charged.
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.
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