Beverly Johnson joined the list of sexual assault accusers Bill Cosby is suing for defamation.
Famous for being the first black woman to appear on the cover of AmericanVogue in 1974, Johnson alleges that Cosby drugged her a cappuccino in the mid-1980s, but that she was able to stave him off.
She alleges that The Cosby Show actor then yanked her out of his home and put her in a taxi that he waved down.
Cosby?s lawsuit claims that Johnson made the false accusations to promote her memoir The Face That Changed It All, which contains a chapter devoted to him.
Cosby argues in his lawsuit, that
Johnson went on multiple media outlets as she joined the campaign to decimate Cosby?s reputation in order to revive her flagging career as a model and public personality.
Cosby?s attorney, Monique Pressley, said in a statement that Johnson?s ?entirely fabricated accusations are nothing more than an opportunistic attempt to resuscitate her own career and benefit herself financially from the wave of media attention. ?
