Woman drops lawsuit claiming Dolphins’ star Xavien Howard gave her STD
A negligence lawsuit against Miami Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard alleging he transmitted genital herpes to a woman has been dismissed.
Howard’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the complaint the day after it was filed in Broward County court in October, writing in the motion that the woman, who used a Jane Doe pseudonym, had “engaged in a campaign of stalking” Howard, had threatened him with “multiple acts of violence” and extorted him for money.
The woman’s attorneys voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday, court records show.
“In order to sue somebody for failing to disclose that you had herpes and then transmitting herpes to you, the person you’re accusing has to actually have herpes. He didn’t,” Howard’s lawyer Brad Sohn told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday.
Sohn wrote in a tweet Monday afternoon that the “the entire basis of her lawsuit was a literal impossibility.”
“His accuser nevertheless lobbed out defamatory, absurd, and knowingly-false claims, as one of several (unsuccessful) attempts to extort money from him,” Sohn wrote.
The woman’s attorney did not immediately return voicemails and an email seeking comment Monday afternoon.
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Angie DiMichele can be reached at adimichele@sunsentinel.com, 754-971-0194 and on Twitter @angdimi.
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