ROSE: ‘RAPE’ IS BULL
Says texts show she brought sex toys and a pal
NEW KNICK star Derrick Rose has come out firing against the woman accusing him and two buddies of gangraping her — saying she’s the one who brought the sex toys to the party.
The woman — identified only as “Jane Doe” — says in a $21 million suit filed in California Federal Court last year that Rose and his two pals drugged her, entered her Southern California apartment and raped her in August 2013.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Rose maintains that what happened was consensual, and doubled down on his stance in court papers filed Monday.
“This is not a rape case. It’s pure and simple extortion by a plaintiff who wants to hide behind the cloak of anonymity while seeking millions in damages from a celebrity with whom she was in a long-term nonexclusive consensual sexual relationship,” the new filing says.
“Plaintiff is a 30-year-old adult who was in a consensual relationship with Mr. Rose; she was the sexual aggressor that night; she brought another woman with her, she claimed she bought (and did bring) the sex toys, she drank before arriving, and asked Mr. Rose for drugs (which he declined) and alcohol.”
The 27-year-old former Bulls’ lawyers says his defense is bolstered by Doe’s own text messages.
“(The woman’s) own text messages — wrongfully withheld until the day after her deposition — contradict the allegations in the complaint. The texts show (Doe) being adventurous, claiming to buy and bringing a sex belt to have fun with Mr. Rose, and then asking Mr. Rose to drive over to her house at 1 a.m. for more consensual sexual interaction.
“Plaintiff also withheld texts showing that when she woke up the next morning, she asked Mr. Rose for reimbursement for her cab fare and the sex toys she claimed to purchase, and mentioned only that she had a hangover and had to get to work,” the filing says.
Rose, the youngest player at age 22 to be named NBA MVP in 2011, is trying to use the texts to argue she should not be allowed to be identified as “Jane Doe” during the trial.
On Tuesday, Rose was trending on Twitter for another reason — he claimed to Yahoo! Sports the Knicks “have a chance to win every game.”
“And I think in the league that’s rare,” he added.
Meanwhile, lawyers for the accuser blasted the Rose filings as “misogynistic.”
“They have no response on the merits, so they call the victim a sexual aggressor when she’s a rape victim,” said one of the attorneys, Brandon Anand.
The case, set to be heard before U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald, is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 4, the same day the NBA’s preseason is set to begin.
Doe’s complaint, originally filed in state court and later transferred to federal court, said that the alleged victim had not gone to the police immediately after the incident because she didn’t want her family to know and was afraid of retribution from the men.