Jim Gibbons

Accuser Charges: Gibbons Threatened To Rape Me

Zachary Roth | April 22, 2010, 12:34PM

Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-NV)

A document filed in a lawsuit brought by a former Las Vegas cocktail waitress against the governor of Nevada contains a shocking allegation.

Chrissy Mazzeo brought suit in 2008 against Jim Gibbons, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in a Vegas parking garage in 2006, then covered it up. Earlier this year, lawyers for Gibbons, a Republican seeking re-election this fall despite a host of personal problems, filed a motion to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence. Yesterday, Mazzeo's lawyers responded with a filing of their own.

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