NBA star Rose accused of rape
Chicago Bulls guard is being sued by his former girlfriend, who alleges Rose and at least two friends conspired to sexually assault her.
Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose is being sued by a woman who claims the NBA star and two other men drugged her and raped her.
In a civil lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, alleges that Rose alongside friends Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen assaulted her in August 2013.
Rose's attorney, Lisa Cohen, labelled the lawsuit "outrageous" in an interview with TMZ.
According to court documents obtained by Omnisport, the woman said she was in a two-year relationship with Rose. She said they met at a Los Angeles party in October of 2011 and began texting each other shortly thereafter. They began "meeting regularly and formed an intimate relationship with one another."
The plaintiff claims she met with Rose approximately 12 times in 2011 and about 10 times in 2012, with another five meetings in 2013 - ending with the alleged rape.
After accepting an invitation to Rose's Beverly Hills home on August 26, 2013, the woman claimed Rose, Hampton and Allen drugged her and a friend before they took a cab back to the plaintiff's Los Angeles apartment due to an argument breaking out.
She claims the three men broke into her home and then forcibly had sex with her. The complaint says the plaintiff "has very little recollection of the events" because she was incapacitated by the drugs but had several "flashes" of memory of specific moments.
No criminal charges were sought stemming from the alleged incidents. The civil complaint says the woman was "reluctant" to report the rape to authorities because she feared retaliation and "did not wish jail time" for Rose.
In her lawsuit, the civil complaints against Rose, Hampton and Allen are sexual battery, battery, trespassing, conspiracy to trespass and commit rape and battery, a civil action for gender violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress and a claim for declaratory relief. The plaintiff has requested a trial by jury.
The woman is seeking a "money judgment representing compensatory damages including consequential damages, lost wages and earnings" because she was eventually fired after her "productivity was seriously affected by the rapes," and a money judgment for mental pain and anguish and severe emotional distress.
Cohen called the lawsuit a cash grab and "an attempt to shake down a highly respected and successful athlete."
"We have complete confidence that the case will be dismissed," Cohen said. "And that Mr. Rose will be vindicated."