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SPRINGFIELD -- U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni dismissed Thursday one of many lawsuits facing Bill Cosby, saying the comedian didn't defame an actress by denying her claims that Cosby raped her.

But Cosby still faces a separate federal lawsuit in Springfield brought by eight other women who say they were raped or abused by Cosby since the 1960s. They are among more than 50 women who say that Cosby raped or abused them.

Cosby is facing criminal sexual assault charges in suburban Philadelphia. He also faces ongoing litigation with his insurance company over what, if any, responsibility it has to defend him in court.

Cosby owns a home in Shelburne Falls, which is why he faces lawsuits here in Springfield federal court.

The plaintiff in the suit dismissed Thursday was actress and casting director Katherine Mae "Kathy" McKee of Las Vegas.

The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court here in Springfield

McKee told her story to the New York Daily News in 2014. A lawyer for Cosby wrote a letter to the Daily News saying the rape McKee alleged did not happen. McKee sued Cosby in 2015, saying Cosby and his camp defamed her with the letter, causing her to lose business as a casting director.

Lawyers representing Cosby argued in federal court that a letter sent on the Cosby's behalf to the Daily News was not trying to smear the woman's reputation as much as it was to demand better journalism.

McKee, a onetime girlfriend of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., said in court papers said she met Cosby, creator of "Fat Albert," in 1964, when she was working an aspiring actress and showgirl in Las Vegas.

In 1971, McKee appeared as an actress on "The Bill Cosby Show." The show, which aired from 1969 until 1971, featured Cosby as high school gym teacher Chet Kincaid.

McKee said in court papers that she met up again with Cosby in 1974 in Detroit. Cosby asked McKee to get some ribs from a local restaurant and then pick him up at his hotel. He promised that he would then take McKee to a party on a friend's boat docked on the Detroit River.

But according to McKee's narrative, when she arrived at the hotel room, Cosby invited her in wearing wearing a bathrobe and a knit wool cap.

To quote the court papers:

"Ms. McKee stepped a few steps into the hotel room when she was immediately set upon and physically attacked by Cosby. Cosby snatched the ribs from her hands and tossed them aside. Cosby was wild and aggressive, and was acting nothing like the man Ms. McKee had known professionally. Cosby violently and forcefully grabbed Ms. McKee and then spun Ms. McKee around so that she was facing away from Cosby and toward the door. Cosby violently lifted her dress and pulled down her panties. Cosby intimidated, terrified and terrorized Ms. McKee with pain and overwhelming physical force. Cosby proceeded to forcibly rape Ms. McKee while both were still standing very near the door. The rape was an unprovoked and violent attack. The rape was shocking, scary and horrible."

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