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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [People / Nicole Weisensee Egan](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People / Nicole Weisensee Egan Dec 10, 2014 10:27 PM UTC  Tamara Green, the plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit claiming that she was "sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby in the 1970s" watches by video link from California as her attorney Joseph Cammarata (L) speaks about the suit that they have filed to a news conference in Washington on Dec. 10, 2014. Tamara Green, the plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit claiming that she was "sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby in the 1970s" watches by video link from California as her attorney Joseph Cammarata (L) speaks about the suit that they have filed to a news conference in Washington on Dec. 10, 2014.Jim Bourg—Reuters by [People / Nicole Weisensee Egan](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People / Nicole Weisensee Egan Dec 10, 2014 10:27 PM UTC [Tamara Green](http://www.people.com/article/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-allegations-tamara-green-andrea-constand), a retired California attorney who says Bill Cosby [drugged and groped her](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20059561,00.html) in 1969 or 1970, filed a defamation lawsuit against the entertainer Wednesday. In the suit, filed in Springfield, Massachusetts, not far from where Cosby has a home, Green says comments made by Cosby’s representatives to _The Washington Post_ and _Newsweek_ this year “impugned” her reputation and exposed her to “public contempt, ridicule, aversion or disgrace.” She filed the suit to “restore her good name and reputation” her attorney, Joseph Cammarata, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “That’s all we’ve got in life at the end of the day,” he says. “It’s the most important thing we have.” Other women Cosby has made public comments about are welcome to join the lawsuit, he says. Representatives for Cosby could not immediately be reached for comment, but have repeatedly denied Green’s accusations through the years. Walter Phillips Jr., one of Cosby’s attorneys, [told the _Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-cosbys-legacy-recast-accusers-speak-in-detail-about-sexual-assault-allegations/2014/11/22/d7074938-718e-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef%5Fstory.html) Cosby didn’t know Green and the allegations were untrue. A person identified only as Cosby’s publicist, who is named in the court papers as David Brokaw, [told _Newsweek_](http://www.newsweek.com/tamara-green-talks-about-bill-cosby-228495) in February, “This is a 10-year discredited accusation that proved to be nothing at the time, and is still nothing.” **Her Lawyer Speaks Out** Because the statute of limitations is one year for defamation, Green is only suing him for those statements to those two publications, Cammarata says. “She says that because of their pubic branding of her as a liar, it’s called into question her good name and reputation,” Cammarata says. “At the core of whether or not she’s a liar is if what she says happened, happened,” he says. “If it happened and Bill Cosby said she was a liar, then my client wins. If it’s the other way around, Mr. Cosby wins.” Green, 66, [first came forward](http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/celebrities/California%5Fattorney%5Fcomes%5Fforward%5Fin%5FCosby%5Fsex%5Fabuse%5Fprobe.html) in February 2005, after former Temple employee Andrea Constand, 32, went to authorities saying Cosby had [drugged and sexually assaulted her](http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/celebrities/Woman%5Faccuses%5FCoz%5Fof%5Fgroping%5Fher.html) at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, mansion. Green, who now lives in southern California, recently told PEOPLE coming forward ten years ago had repercussions for her. “People I knew looked me right in the face and told me they didn’t believe me,” she says. “It’s crushing to be dismissed like that.” “It has ended some relationships for me,” she says. “When the smoke cleared and the blood dried, I moved to a piece of land that had about an acre between me and the front gate. No bell either.” “In their opinion, you’re a liar and it doesn’t bother them at all that they have no idea what they’re talking about,” she added. 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