Ben's lawyers fighting this one. They have a pretty good point. It's good to see that he is not just paying this bitch off. He's fighting it. Dig this . . .
Big Ben's Lawyers File Motion To Dismiss Civil Suit - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh
Big Ben's Lawyers File Motion To Dismiss Civil Suit
Posted: 12:00 pm EDT August 21, 2009
Updated: 10:37 am EDT August 22, 2009
RENO, Nev. -- Late Friday night, attorneys for Ben Roethlisberger filed a motion to dismiss a civil suit filed by a woman who claims Roethlisberger raped her at a Lake Tahoe resort last summer.
Channel 11 obtained the legal document which was more than 40 pages long, his attorneys asked that case against Roethlisberger be dismissed.
In the motion, Roethlisberger's lawyers call his accuser, Andrea McNulty, an "admitted sex addict" and allege that her lawyer made extortionate demands before filing the suit.
Roethlisberger's attorney's also question McNulty's mental condition and request that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
According to the motion, "The plaintiff is a disturbed and calculating woman who, together with counsel, fabricated a claim of sexual assault against a 2-time super bowl winning quarterback to save her job and extort a large monetary payoff."
The motion also claims the woman's lawsuit was "deliberately timed to coincide with the opening of NFL training camps, which ensured that the complaint would garner the attention of the national media."
And in laying out Roethlisberger's defense, his attorney's said, "Rather than reporting to anyone that she had been allegedly raped, she told her friends and co-workers a completely different story. She never told her best friend that she had been sexually assaulted."
A lawyer for the woman is asking a judge to sanction the Steelers quarterback's legal team for trying to "bully" and intimidate her into dropping her civil lawsuit.
Cal Dunlap said Roethlisberger's lawyers tried to "smear" the woman with an affidavit from an ex-friend who said the sex at a hotel-casino was consensual and that the woman bragged about it.
Dunlap said in a motion filed Thursday in Reno that Roethlisberger's lawyers made a settlement offer this week suggesting they might counter-sue her for defamation.
Roethlisberger's lawyers said in the offer that a "conspiracy to extort and defame" him has seriously harmed his potential earnings in excess of $20 million. They want her to write him a letter of apology.
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