Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS on Thursday after the network aired two interviews with women who accused him of sexual assa…
interviewed the two women, Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson, and Fairfax denied that he engaged in non-consensual sex.
According to CBS affiliate WTKR-TV, in the lawsuit Fairfax claims that the network had information that “both allegations had not been corroborated by any independent investigation.” But the network “recklessly disregarded whether what Watson and Tyson were saying was, in fact, true.”issued a statement in response to the lawsuit. “We stand by our reporting and we will vigorously defend this lawsuit.
The women came forward just as it looked like Gov. Ralph Northam would step down in the midst of a scandal over whether he wore blackface in a photo for a yearbook during his years in medical school. But he refused to resign. Fairfax also has remained in office, but his lawsuit claims that “his once promising career and political prospects have been severely harmed by the reckless airing of these false allegations.
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