Los Angeles Dodgers player Trevor Power has filed another defamation lawsuit, this time against the woman who accused him of assaulting her last year during two sexual encounters at his Pasadena home.
The lawsuit names the woman and her lawyer, Fred Thiagaraja, as defendants, accusing them of defaming him by making false statements about what happened between Power and the woman last year. She says that because of the woman’s “wrongful acts,” the contractual relationship between Bauer and the Dodgers was disrupted, causing him to miss out on opportunities to earn additional income.
The lawsuit seeks public and punitive damages in amounts that will be proven at trial. It Power filed third defamation lawsuit after his baseball career was interrupted Last June, when a woman accused him of strangling her unconscious and beating her.
He has not played since being placed on a paid managerial level on July 2 and could soon be suspended by Major League Baseball.
“After their first sexual encounter, (the woman) continued to stalk Mr. Bauer so she could have violent sex with him again, but this time, she told Mr. Bauer that she wanted a rougher sexual experience,” Bauer’s suit said. Filed Monday in US District Court in California. Unbeknownst to Mr. Bauer, who believed that (the woman) was merely expressing her sexual preferences, (the woman)’s goal was to lure Mr. Bauer into a more severe sexual experience so that she could later claim that this sexual experience was not what she requested and thus lay the groundwork for a settlement Finance “.
Bauer said that his encounters with the woman were rough, consensual sex. The woman said the encounters started by consensual but went too far. She said he hit and strangled her, including hitting her on the backside when she was unconscious.
Bauer has not been arrested or charged. In August a judge in Los Angeles She refused the woman’s request for an injunction for five yearsnoting that the woman’s initial request for a temporary restraining order was “materially misleading.”
The woman went to hospital after her second encounter with Bauer and was diagnosed with severe head injury and strangulation.
Thiagarajah did not immediately respond with a message requesting comment. The lawsuit contradicts comments he made to the Washington Post after the Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to charge Bauer with a crime, citing a lack of evidence. Thiagaraja said that there was “no doubt that Mr. Bower brutalized” the woman and that “the evidence is conclusive that these things happened….it has been established with 100 per cent certainty”.
Power’s suit states that “at the time Mr. Thiagaraga made these statements, he knew that his client had filed a ‘material misleading’ petition to the California Supreme Court for a restraining order.” “He knew that his client had concealed (and omitted) material information that revealed Mrs. Hill’s true motives for filing the petition (the restraining order) – to obtain publicity, money, and to harm Mr. Power.”
Bauer also sued The Athletic and Deadspin’s parent company, accusing them of Dissemination of false information about the nature of the woman’s injury.
The judge noted in August that photographs of the woman’s injuries after the second encounter were “appalling.”
“In most circumstances, the mere sight of photographs like this would be an indictment in and of itself for the perpetrator of these injuries,” Judge Diana Gold-Saltman wrote. “But (the woman) had and had the right to have any kind of sex as a consenting adult she wanted with another consenting adult.”
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