RENO, Nev. (AP) -Ben Roethlisberger’s lawyers say in a court statement that the woman accusing him of raping her at Lake Tahoe last summer is “disturbed and calculating” and fabricated the assault to extort a big payoff from the Steelers quarterback.
The allegations are included in the two-time Super Bowl winner’s first formal legal responses to the woman’s civil lawsuit seeking a minimum of $400,000 of damages.
They were filed late Friday in Washoe County District Court in Reno, a day after her lawyer asked a judge to sanction Roethlisberger’s lawyers because he said they are trying to “bully” her into dropping her suit. He also said they have threatened to countersue her for defamation, a move he said “borders on criminal extortion.”
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