{"id":270747,"date":"2019-04-05T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1030105"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:55:00","slug":"bill-cosbys-attorney-fires-back-after-settling-of-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/bill-cosbys-attorney-fires-back-after-settling-of-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby&#8217;s Attorney Fires Back After Settling of Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.501336898396\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2014114\/rs_634x1024-141204142053-634-bill-cosby-serious.jw.12414.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Bill Cosby\" alt=\"Bill Cosby\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Peter Kramer\/NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.458452722063\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bill_cosby\">Bill Cosby<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s attorney has released a statement following the settlement of a lawsuit against the former TV star.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, seven women sued Cosby, accusing him of defamation after they publicly shared their sexual assault allegations against him. In 2015, Cosby filed a countersuit against the women for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, an attorney for&nbsp;the women,&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Cammarata<\/strong>, announced that they have settled their case and they seek to dismiss the lawsuit. In court documents, filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and obtained by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/cosby-settles-defamation-lawsuit-filed-seven-women-n991426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday, Cammarata told the court that the case was settled and wrote in the documents,&nbsp;&#8220;Each Plaintiff is satisfied with the settlement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>However, in a statement to E! News, Cosby&#8217;s attorney states, &#8220;Mr. Cosby did not settle any cases with anyone. He is not paying anything to anyone, and he is still pursuing his counterclaims. AIG decided to settle these cases, without the knowledge, permission and\/or consent of Mr. Cosby. Mr. Cosby vehemently denies the allegations brought against him in these defamation suits and he maintains his innocence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>Attorney&nbsp;Cammarata&nbsp;also stated in a separate motion on Friday that they expect to file for summary judgment on several grounds for Cosby&#8217;s countersuit involving the same women, seeking for the case brought by Cosby to be dismissed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1030105\/bill-cosby-s-attorney-fires-back-after-settling-of-defamation-case?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kramer\/NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Bill Cosby&#8216;s attorney has released a statement following the settlement of a lawsuit against the former TV star. Back in 2014, seven women sued Cosby, accusing him of defamation after they publicly shared their sexual assault allegations against him. In 2015, Cosby filed a countersuit against the women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 02:19:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}