Bill Cosby is facing another defamation lawsuit by one of his alleged victims. Yesteryear's supermodel Janice Dickinson has filed the lawsuit against the stand-up comedian on Wednesday claiming that his legal team has ravaged her reputation by calling her rape accusations a lie.
"I've been called a liar, and I've been re-victimized," the 60-year-old model told New York Daily News. Dickinson had first raised the rape allegation on Cosby last year in November, saying that Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982 after the two had dinner in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Soon after Cosby's lawyer, Martyu Singer, issued a statement calling the allegations "false and outlandish," as the facts were contradicting to the former model's own autobiography.
In the recently filed lawsuit, Dickinson has claimed that because of Cosby's camp dismissal, she and her family had to face extreme embarrassment, adding that the denial rekindled the trauma and caused her to lose sleep.
The lawsuit is also supported by notable New York editor Judith Regan and ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, who confirmed that Dickinson had "argued vehemently" but failed to have the alleged rape incident included in her 2002 autobiography "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life Of The World's First Supermodel." In her book, the model had only mentioned that the 77-year-old comedian had made sexual advances on her once and gave her "dirtiest, meanest look in the world" when she refused to amuse him, People reported.
Dickinson was one of the firsts of 30 women who had come up last year to accuse Cosby of sexual assault. Most of the women were young, fledgling models or actresses at the time of the alleged incidents. By filing lawsuit, Dickinson has joined other alleged victims Tamara Green, Therese Serignese and Linda Traitz.