ACCUSER DENIES MAKING FALSE CLAIMS
Woman in sexual assault case against Bauer refutes Dodgers pitcher in court filing.
The woman whose sexual assault allegations against Trevor Bauer triggered an investigation that resulted in a two-year suspension of the Dodgers pitcher denied that any of the allegations were “false, fabricated, or bogus,” her attorneys wrote in a court filing this week.
Bauer sued the woman for defamation in April, claiming she lied about her sexual encounters with him in order to destroy his reputation and career while enriching herself. Four days after he sued, Major League Baseball handed down a suspension that could cost him as much as $60 million.
In her response, filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, the woman denied allegations she had made a “false, misleading or defamatory police report” and denied she had “submitted altered or filtered photographs” in her request for a restraining order.
In particular, the woman disputed the meaning of a text message that neither Bauer nor the woman included in court filings. In suing, Bauer’s attorneys said the woman had texted a friend that the two “would be able to travel to Europe together in style once she was successful in her plot to destroy Mr. Bauer by tricking him into having rough and rougher sex with her.”
In her response, the woman’s attorneys said the text message was “about going to Europe when she was a rich baseball wife.”
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