Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose being sued for rape
Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose. AP PHOTO
Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose just couldn’t catch a break.
Still on the long road back from major injuries, the 2011 NBA MVP is now being sued after a woman claimed that Rose and two of his friends “drugged and gang raped her.”
In a report on TMZ, the woman said she and Rose dated from 2011 to 2013, and accused the three-time All-Star and his friends of slipping a drug into her drink before harassing her inside the NBA star’s Beverly Hills home.
According to the report, “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 said she remembers only ‘flashes’ of the incident, but can remember the defendants forcibly raping her.”
It also wrote that the woman had to wait for two years before filing the suit because “she was ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ of what happened and concerned her ‘conservative family’ would find out. She wants unspecified damages.”
A spokesperson for Rose denied the allegations and summed it up as “outrageous.”
Rose’s camp spoke to Sports Business Journal, and told, “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.”
Rose, the 2009 Rookie of the Year, was once considered as arguably the best point guard in the league before injuries forced him out of the conversation.
