Former MLB superstar pitcher Trevor Bauer got slammed Tuesday with new allegations of sexual assault and other severe behavior by an Arizona woman, citing an alleged encounter between the two in 2020, USA Today reported.
Denying the claims, the one-time Cy Young Award winner filed a countersuit against the woman, according to USA Today.
The woman claims that Bauer — who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks — raped her, got her pregnant and held a steak knife to her throat, USA Today reported. Originally filing a complaint back in December 2022, the woman is the fourth to slam allegations on the current Yokohama DeNA BayStars (Japan) baseball star.
The woman is looking for $3.7 million in damages and an “apology to any women the defendant has sexually humiliated and abused against their consent,” according to USA Today’s report.
Trevor Bauer, who’s pitching in Japan, faces another sexual assault allegation, which he vehemently denies https://t.co/grIDu3V9ZM via @usatoday
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) June 14, 2023
Bauer‘s lawyers claim that the pitcher had a sole consensual encounter with the woman in December 2020, and during sex, the condom broke. In his countersuit, Bauer says that she claimed she was pregnant and requested $1.6 million to end the pregnancy, with the pitcher making an “audio recording” of the demand, the outlet reported.
The woman also alleges that Bauer held a steak knife to her throat, and that he also choked her with her braids, the outlet noted. She also alleges that he slammed her down, and that she was pregnant at the time. (RELATED: REPORT: Nick Kyrgios Admits He Was Suicidal, Was Put Into Psych Ward Following 2019 Wimbledon Defeat)
Bauer has yet to be charged with a crime.
“Trevor Bauer categorically denies this woman’s unhinged allegations. She has made four documented multi-million-dollar extortion demands over the last two years, which prompted Mr. Bauer to file a criminal complaint against her. He is also actively suing her for fraud,” Bauer’s co-agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, told the Daily Caller in a statement.
“Her claims are untethered to reality and change as often as she changes lawyers. First, she sought money to terminate an alleged pregnancy, then she claimed – among other things – that she was distressed from having an abortion, and now her newest claim suggests for the first time that she had a miscarriage,” the agents added.
“This woman has published public YouTube videos, done sit-down interviews with multiple entities, and filed a public complaint against Mr. Bauer. Despite her numerous attempts to have her lies publicized, every entity that reviewed the facts and evidence — including multiple news organizations — recognized how ridiculous her claims are and declined to publish these obviously false and defamatory allegations. That is, until USA Today failed to consider any underlying information except the woman’s allegations in a rush to publish her stale claims and provide a vehicle for her fraud. Worse yet, through their lack of diligence, USA Today failed to even note that this woman filed yet another version of her claim the same day it published its story. USA Today’s reporting is as reckless as the fraudulent claims of this woman,” they concluded.