Cosby lawsuit is revisited
A former teen actress who accuses Bill Cosby of molesting her asked a federal appeals court Friday in Philadelphia to revive her defamation lawsuit against the comedian.
Renita Hill of Pittsburgh said she was defamed when Cosby, his wife and his then-lawyer questioned abuse accusations raised in late 2014 by Hill and other women. Cosby lawyer Martin Singer called the new accounts “fantastical,” “ridiculous,” “illogical” and beyond “absurd.”
A federal court in Massachusetts has allowed seven women to sue Cosby for defamation over the statement, but a Pittsburgh judge dismissed Hill’s lawsuit.
In oral arguments Friday, the appeals court judges did not indicate when they would rule.
Buck comes clean about injury
Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck says nerve damage he suffered during hair restoration surgery was responsible for a vocal cord injury he battled in 2011.
Buck is coming clean in a new memoir after publicly blaming the loss of his voice on a virus that hit the laryngeal nerve of his left vocal cord. Sports Illustrated reports that Buck writes that he believes a cuff the surgery center used to protect him damaged the cord.
Buck tells SI.com that he lied because the truth was “embarrassing.”
Buck says the hair procedure was his eighth since beginning hair replacement treatment in 1993 at the age of 24.
He describes himself as “a hair plug addict.”