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Former supermodel Janice Dickinson became the highest profile accuser of Bill Cosby to take legal action in the wake of renewed coverage of alleged assaults committed by the comedian on Wednesday.
The 60-year-old reality TV star has sued Cosby for defamation after his legal counsel dismissed her claims that she was raped by the legendary comedian in 1982 in a Nevada hotel room. Although Cosby has never been charged with a crime and had denied allegations of drugging and sexual assault in the past, he has been dogged by accusations that have mounted since fellow comedian Hannibal Burress alluded to them in a stand-up routine that went viral last fall. Cosby currently faces another defamation suit brought by three women who have alleged that he assaulted them in the past.
“Janice Dickinson, like over three dozen other Cosby victims, recently publicly disclosed that she was drugged and raped by Bill Cosby,” Dickinson’s attorneys wrote in the complaint. “In retaliation, Cosby, through an attorney, publicly branded her a liar and called her rape disclosure a lie with the intent and effect of revictimizing her and destroying the professional reputation she’s spent decades building.”
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