It has been nearly three months since the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced it would not seek criminal charges against Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, a declination that concluded a five-month review of the Pasadena Police Department’s investigation into sexual assault allegations leveled at Bauer by a San Diego woman last summer.
But while Bauer, 31, still awaits the outcome of a separate Major League Baseball investigation stemming from the same accusations — he remains on paid administrative leave and has not pitched for the Dodgers since last June — he has been busy on the legal front.
This week, Bauer filed a defamation and tortious interference lawsuit against the San Diego woman and one of her attorneys — Newport Beach-based Fred Thiagarajah — in California federal court. The complaint alleges that Bauer’s accuser “wanted to destroy Mr. Bauer’s reputation and baseball career, garner attention for herself, and extract millions of dollars from Mr. Bauer,” and that Thiagarajah “aided in those efforts.”
Last month, Bauer filed two separate defamation lawsuits: one in Manhattan federal court against G/O Media, the parent company of Deadspin, and managing editor Chris Baud; and the second filed in California federal court against The Athletic and former reporter, Molly Knight. Bauer said he filed the suits against both outlets “for knowingly publishing false information” about him and the sexual assault allegations he faced.
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