RENO, Nev. (AP) -A lawyer for the woman who claims Ben Roethlisberger raped her at Lake Tahoe last summer is asking a judge to sanction the Steelers quarterback’s legal team.
Cal Dunlap says Roethlisberger’s lawyers tried to “smear” the woman with an affidavit from an ex-friend who said the sex at a hotel-casino was consensual and that the woman bragged about it.
Dunlap said in a motion filed Thursday in Reno that Roethlisberger’s lawyers made a settlement offer this week suggesting they might countersue her for defamation.
Roethlisberger’s lawyers said in the offer that a “conspiracy to extort and defame” him has seriously harmed his potential earnings in excess of $20 million. They want her to write him a letter of apology.
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