Derrick Rose Claims Rape Accuser Consented to Group Sex
Perpetually injured NBA star Derrick Rose is being sued for sexual battery by an ex-lover who alleges Rose and his friends drugged and gang-raped her in 2013. Rose’s attorneys responded cavalierly when the suit was filed in August, accusing Jane Doe of trying to “shake down” a wealthy ballplayer. He filed his official response this week, and it’s similarly dismissive, noting that “she consented” and claiming the woman is just upset that Rose stopped responding to her texts.
The she-said side of this he-said-she-said situation went into great detail about what Rose and his buddies—Randall Hampton, Ryan Allen, and 10 unnamed others—allegedly did that night. Jane Doe’s complaint alleges that the defendants drugged and incapacitated her, then sent away the female friend who was there looking out for her. Then they allegedly drove with Jane Doe—who says she was still “in and out of consciousness”—to her unlocked apartment, took turns having sex with her, and left her covered in lube and surrounded by used condoms.
Rose’s account is much, much briefer. His lawyers responded that Jane Doe “consented to the actions she now claims were non-consensual,” and that “none of the defendants ... was aware that Plaintiff objected to any of the acts.”
Rose claims that Jane Doe invited the defendants into her apartment, “opened the apartment door to welcome them, and then consented to additional group activities later that evening.”
According to Rose, some of those activities involved sex toys, and Jane Doe is upset because Rose failed to pay her back for the toys she bought for that evening. He says his accuser deleted pictures of herself using “the toys in question” from Instagram.
The woman was okay with everything that happened that night, Rose claims, until he and “one or more co-defendants” stopped responding to her texts. In his version of the story, it wasn’t until months after the incident that she got mad and filed a lawsuit.
Rose also claims Jane Doe can’t prove her injuries, because she “went to work the next day at her normal time in the morning and worked a full day.”
That workday is going to be a point of dispute in the case, though, because Jane Doe says it wasn’t as easy for her as Rose’s lawyers are making it sound. Here’s Deadspin, reporting on the initial lawsuit:
The next day, she went to work where a coworker told her to call the police. She says she didn’t because she felt ashamed and embarrassed. She didn’t want her family to find out, the complaint says, and she was afraid of retribution from the men involved. She says eventually lost her job “because her productivity was severely affected by the rapes and she was unable to perform as she did before.”
Rose has requested a trial, so unless the case settles, it’ll be up to a jury to determine who’s telling the truth here.
Read the original complaint at Deadspin, and Rose’s full response here.