Embattled comedian Bill Cosby asked the judge handling his case to dismiss the defamation case filed against him by three women who he claimed wrongfully accused him of sexual assault.
Lawyer Tamara Green accused Cosby in December claiming that he drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s. Linda Traitz and Therese Serignese joined in the filing of the same complaint against the comedian. Traitz disclosed that in the 1970s, Cosby tried to drug and sexually groped her while Serignese accused the comedian did rape her when she was 19 years old in 1976.
Cosby's legal counsel asked the federal judge to throw away the defamation lawsuit filed by Green, Traitz, and Serignese accusing the actor of sexual harassment, according to Daily Mail.
The three women claimed that Cosby's lawyers accused them of lying about their charges against their client and that Cosby is merely acting on self-defense.
"The law does not require that one stand idly by while he is publicly attacked," the lawyers argue in their 38-page filing. "Instead the law entitles an individual who is accused of serious wrongdoing to rebut the allegations without facing defamation claims."
Joseph Cammarata, the three accusers' Legal counsel disclosed that his clients do not agree to that statement. He explained that the law provides that once a public statement has been told about a particular person, it has to be the truth. He also said that they are looking forward for the truth to be tried by the jury to determine which of the parties are telling the truth, Access Hollywood reported.
The comedian has been accused by 15 women of the same sexual harassment assault. Cosby denied all the allegations thrown on him by the three accusing women.
The "The Cosby Show" actor has not been charged of any crime as of today.