It's no joke: Bill Cosby's legal team filed a defamation lawsuit
against supermodel Beverly Johnson, one of the highest-profile cases of
the more than 50 women who have accused the disgraced comedian of
sexual assault.
The now 62-year-old model claims that Cosby assaulted her during a fake
"audition" in the mid-80s, a charge she recounted in her recent memoir,
"The Face That Changed It All," and in several magazine and television
interviews.
Calling Johnson's account "false, malicious, opportunistic, and
defamatory," the former JELL-O pudding pitchman's team filed the suit in
Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on Monday. Cosby, 78, is
seeking both compensatory and punitive damages, as well as a public
apology and a removal of the offending chapter of her autobiography from
all unsold copies of the book.
