New details emerge in civil sexual assault case against Derrick Rose
New York Knicks point guard Derrick Rose is scheduled to stand trial next month in a civil sexual assault case, and on Thursday details emerged from the depositions of both Rose and the plaintiff.
"Jane Doe" - who by law is not required to be publicly identified - is suing Rose for $21.5 million in damages as a result of an alleged 2013 group sexual assault that occurred in Los Angeles.
Neither Rose or the other men named - Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen - have been charged with a crime, and police have not addressed the case.
Doe's complaint says the three men entered her apartment illegally on Aug. 27, 2013, and forced themselves upon her while she was in a semi-conscious state due to intoxication. Rose, who dated the woman non-exclusively for two years, has maintained the sex was consensual.
Excerpts of the depositions released Thursday through an article by ThinkProgress' Lindsay Gibbs center around the plaintiff's condition the night in question. Doe and her friend stated she left a party at Rose's Beverly Hills home because she was drunk to the point that she severely burned her hand picking up a rock from a bonfire.
The men later went to her apartment after she had passed out, which is where the consent question enters the case.
Doe's attorneys have accused Rose and his legal team of victim-shaming, including spinning the lawsuit as extortion of a wealthy celebrity - and leaking a story that the accusation stemmed from the plaintiff's anger over not being reimbursed for the purchase of a sex toy.
The judge in the case rejected an attempt by Rose's lawyers to name Doe publicly due to her posting of suggestive photographs on social media.
"Defendant Rose appears to suggest that women who publicly portray themselves as 'sexual' are less likely to experience embarrassment, humiliation, and harassment associated with gang rape," Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald wrote.
"Such rhetoric has no place in this court. No matter how Plaintiff chooses to depict her sexuality on social media, her allegations of rape entitle her to the protections of anonymity."
Rose was traded to the Knicks from the Chicago Bulls on June 22.