article_snippet: Tamara Green, a 56-year-old California lawyer, says Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted Bill Cosby in Bill Cosby Los Angeles-area apartment in the early 1970s.
article_snippet: Therese Serignese says Bill Cosby drugged and raped Bill Cosby in a dressing room after a show in Las Vegas around 1976.
article_snippet: And Linda Traitz alleges Linda Traitz tried to drug Bill Cosby and then groped Bill Cosby on a Southern California beach in about 1970.
article_snippet: Green filed a defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby in December 2014 claiming that Green and Green attorneys said Bill Cosby had lied about a sexual assault from 40 years ago (Bill Cosby is pictured, right, at the time)
article_snippet: Green was joined in a defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby by Linda Traitz (left), who alleged that Bill Cosby tried to drug Bill Cosby and then sexually groped Bill Cosby in 1970, and nurse Therese Serignese (right), 57, who said the comic raped Bill Cosby in 1976 when Bill Cosby was 19 years old .
article_snippet: One November 2014 statement references Traitz's 'extensive' criminal record, which includes larceny, fraud and drug possession charges. '
article_snippet: As the old saying goes, "consider the source,"' wrote Bill Cosby attorney Martin Singer, who also attached copies of Traitz's Florida criminal and prison records with the statement.
article_snippet: Green originally filed the defamation lawsuit in December 2014 and Serignese and Traitz joined later.