Tv-veteraani Bill Cosbyn lakimies Martin Singer on käynyt vastahyökkäykseen mediassa esiin tulleiden seksuaalista häirintää vihjaavien syytösten johdosta. Singerin mukaan kyseessä on ”median lietsomasta kohusta”.
”People are coming out the woodwork with fabricated or unsubstantiated stories about my client”. Singer on tuonut julkisuuteen myös yhden Cosbya seksuaalisesta ahdistelusta syyttävän, Linda Joy Traitzin, rikosrekisterin. Naista on aikaisemmin syytetty mm. petoksesta.
Tuorein syytösten esittäjä on malli/televisiopersoona Janice Dickinson. Singer syyttää Dickinsonia suoranaisesta valehtelusta. Singerin mukaan Dickinsonin tarina on todistetusti muuttunut vuosien varrella.
”Janice Dickinson’s story accusing Bill Cosby of rape is a lie. There is a glaring contradiction between what she is claiming now for the first time and what she wrote in her own book and what she told the media back in 2002. Ms. Dickinson did an interview with the New York Observer in September 2002 entitled “Interview With a Vamp” completely contradicting her new story about Mr. Cosby. That interview a dozen years ago said “she didn’t want to go to bed with him and he blew her off.” Her publisher Harper Collins can confirm that no attorney representing Mr. Cosby tried to kill the alleged rape story (since there was no such story) or tried to prevent her from saying whatever she wanted about Bill Cosby in her book. The only story she gave 12 years ago to the media and in her autobiography was that she refused to sleep with Mr. Cosby and he blew her off. Documentary proof and Ms. Dickinson’s own words show that her new story about something she now claims happened back in 1982 is a fabricated lie”.
(Lähde Variety)
