Chrissy Mazzeo has filed a lawsuit in Federal court against Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons. She is charging battery, false imprisonment and second degree kidnapping as well as lying about the incident after the fact.
The suit comes two years after the alleged incident which took place on October 13, 2006. Mazzeo, 34, was a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas at the time of their encounter. She alleges, in her lawsuit, that the pair were drinking with a group of people at a restaurant. The two ended up in a parking garage where he grabbed her and forced her against a wall and said, “I’m going to rape you.”
The story broke at the time of the incident, a short while before Gibbons was elected to his first term as Nevada’s governor. Clark County D.A. David Roger wouldn’t prosecute at the time because the charges could not be proved “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Mazzeo’s lawsuit alleges a cover up conspiracy by political operative Sig Rogich, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, former police chief Bill Young and former Gibbons attorney Don Campbell.
The suit has been filed by Las Vegas attorney Robert Kossack, who has been hired to represent Mazzeo. She held a news conference in late 2006 where she reported that she had been threatened, pressured and offered money through an intermediary to change her story.
Mazzeo has since relocated to Southern California to pursue an acting career. Her resume lists her special talents as improvisation and a spirit of adventure.
Gibbons, 63, recently filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years, Dawn Gibbon, 54. She accused her husband of being involved with another woman.
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