A woman who accused now-suspended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexually assaulting her has denied making any “false, fabricated or bogus” allegations.
In a filing on Tuesday, Lindsey Hill admits she “sought a relationship” with Bauer and traveled to his home in Pasadena, California, but she denies his key allegation that their rough sex was limited to only what they’d agreed upon and that she lied to destroy his career and gain money and attention for herself.
“Defendant did not reasonably contemplate that Plaintiff would have done many of the things he did to her, and therefore she never thought of having to identify those things with him,” according to the 33-page answer to the complaint, filed in the Central District of California.
Hill’s lawyers filed it Tuesday, the same day her lawyer-turned-co-defendant, Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah, filed a motion to strike Bauer’s defamation claim against him under a California statute aimed at protecting free speech in public issues.
Thiagarajah, whose office is in Newport Beach, represented Hill when she accused Bauer in of sexually assaulting her in May 2021, and Bauer’s defamation claim against him focuses on statements he made to the Washington Post about prosecutors’ decision not to charge Bauer.
The motion says Bauer’s case against Thiagarajah “is so meritless, however, that he must resort to selectively (and deceptively) quoting Mr. Thiagarajah to attempt to construct his claim.”
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