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Bill Cosby Fires Back at Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

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459384752?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1417739289840Gerardo Mora/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — After weeks of sexual assault allegations from a parade of women, Bill Cosby is fighting back.

The 77-year-old comedian filed a lawsuit Thursday against Judy Huth, who claims Cosby forced her to perform a sex act in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion, when she was 15.

In documents obtained by ABC News, Cosby alleges that not only is Huth lying, but that she filed the lawsuit after failing to extort money from him. Cosby is asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit and is seeking monetary damages from Huth and her attorney.

In his filing Thursday, Cosby says Huth’s lawyer approached the comedian’s attorney, Marty Singer, last month and made “ominous references” to ‘criminal penalties.'” According to the lawsuit, Huth’s lawyer demanded $100,000 for her silence, and later increased the amount to $250,000 as additional women came forward.

“Through her lawyer, Plaintiff made extortionate claims to Mr. Cosby (through his counsel) about criminal penalties, coupled with ever-increasing demands for a six-figure payday to keep quiet about her long-since-expired claims,” the documents state.

The suit claims that after Cosby’s attorney rejected Huth’s claims and accused her of extortion, her attorney filed a lawsuit two days ago against the comedian.

Cosby also alleges that Huth tried to sell her story to tabloids 10 years ago, but is now claiming that she repressed the memory of what happened until recently in order to file her civil lawsuit.

The documents claim that Huth’s story falls apart when she alleges that she and the comedian, “engaged in a drinking game” in which they, “both consumed three beers.” Singer states in the suit, “It is a well-known, and easily verifiable, that Mr. Cosby is a life-long non-drinker.”

Huth’s attorney did not immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment about Thursday’s filing.

Singer also did not return requests for comment Thursday, but in a statement last month, he called the recent allegations against Cosby “unsubstantiated, fantastical stories.”

Earlier Thursday, the Navy said it was revoking Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer, saying allegations of sexual abuse made against the comedian are serious and conflict with the Navy’s core values.

Cosby enlisted in the Navy in 1956 and served four years as a hospital corpsman, before he was honorably discharged in 1960 as a 3rd Class Petty Officer. He received the honorary title in 2011.


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