Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose has been named in a lawsuit alleging that he and two friends drugged and gang raped his ex-girlfriend in August of 2013, TMZ reported on Wednesday night.
The ex-girlfriend, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, claims that she and Rose dated from 2011 to 2013. During that time, TMZ reports, Rose repeatedly tried to commit infidelity with her friends and engage her in group sex.
Here are the details of the alleged drugging and gang rape, according to TMZ:
Rose’s accuser says the two continued to date until August 2013, when Rose and two friends, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton (who is also Rose’s personal manager), invited her to Rose’s Beverly Hills house. She says there, they slipped a drug into her drink with the aim of raping her.
The plaintiff says she escaped the house with a friend, but later that night, Rose and his friends broke into her apartment and gang raped her while she was incapacitated. She says she remembers only “flashes” of the incident, but can remember the defendants forcibly raping her.
She claims she waited for two years to file the suit because she was “ashamed and embarrassed” of what happened and concerned her “conservative family” would find out.
Early Thursday morning, Rose's lawyer, Lisa Cohen, vehemently denied the lawsuit's allegations in a statement provided to TMZ:
The plaintiff’s allegations are completely false and without any factual basis. This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to shake down a highly respected and successful athlete. Mr. Rose was in a non-exclusive, consensual sexual relationship with the plaintiff for over two years. The plaintiff expressed no complaints about Mr. Rose until various lawyers began to surface and demand that the plaintiff be paid millions of dollars. This is the third lawyer the plaintiff has retained in this matter. Two years have passed since Mr. Rose ended the consensual relationship with the plaintiff and her claims are as meritless now as they were two years ago. We have complete confidence that the case will be dismissed and that Mr. Rose will be vindicated. This lawsuit is outrageous.
Following Cohen's response, the Bulls declined to comment on Thursday:
The unidentified woman is seeking unspecified damages from Rose.
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