Disgraced former reality TV star Josh Duggar filed a legal motion to dismiss stripper Danica Dillon's lawsuit in which she accused Duggar of sexually assaulting her during a sexual romp last year, the Daily Mail reported. After a judge dismissed his motion, Duggar filed new legal documents denying that the sexual encounter ever occurred.
Dillon (real name Ashley Stamm-Northup) claims that she met Duggar at a strip club in Philadelphia where she was performing. He allegedly propositioned her by paying $600 for lap dances and $1,500 for consensual sex at Dillon's hotel room. Duggar allegedly assaulted Dillon "to the point of causing her physical and emotional injuries," according to Dillon's $500,000 civil lawsuit.
In the motion, Duggar's lawyer Jeffery A. Conrad wrote that Dillon "did not provide anything more than a formulaic recitation of the elements of assault and/or battery," according to the documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight. Pennsylvania judge J. Kearney denied the motion.
"We decline to grant Duggar's motion to dismiss at this early stage of litigation where Stamm-Northup alleges Duggar treated her roughly, caused physical injuries, and she felt 'as if she was being raped,'" Kearney wrote.
Duggar responded and filed new documents after his motion was denied. This time, he claimed that the sexual encounter never happened and provided an alibi that claimed he was never in Pennsylvania at the time the encounter allegedly occurred, according to TMZ. He also claimed that he never visited the strip club where Dillon worked, or the hotel where she stayed.
