Bill Cosby Defamation Lawsuit: Two New Women Come Forward to Join Suit
Bill Cosby is being sued for defamation by one woman who alleges that he sexually assaulted her and now two others have joined the lawsuit.
Linda Joy Traitz and Therese Serignese have joined Tamara Green in alleging that Cosby offered them drugs while sexually assaulting them years ago. Cosby has recently been the subject of media scrutiny due to the rising number of allegations brought against him.
Traitz said Cosby attempted to push himself on her while she was 18 or 19 in 1969, according to CNN reports. The young waitress said she was offered a ride home from the comedian, who allegedly attempted to assault her in his Rolls Royce.
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Traitz, who has history of arrests that resulted in her being jailed for three years in 2008 on drug trafficking and possession charges, said she has turned her life around. However, Martin Singer, Cosby's attorney, has denied her story.
"Ms. Traitz is the latest example of people coming out of the woodwork with fabricated or unsubstantiated stories about my client," Singer said.
Serignese, a 57-year-old nurse, told ABC's "20/20" that Cosby gave her pills before sexually assaulting her when she was a model in Las Vegas. She explained her decision to come forward with her allegations now.
"Ten years ago, the climate still wasn't right. We would have all been humiliated," she said. "Now, I could see it was time, and I would be safer. I wouldn't be alone. It took me 38 years to feel safe."
Tamara Green, 66, is a retired California attorney who initially came forward in 2005 to allege that Cosby drugged and groped her in 1970. She began the initial defamation suit against the comedian after Cosby's representatives denied Green's claims to news outlets in a way that held her in "public contempt, ridicule, aversion or disgrace," according to People.
Joseph Cammarata, Green's attorney, invited others to join the lawsuit late last year.
