Former Dodger pitcher Trevor Bauer revealed evidence presented in discovery after settling lawsuits derived from 2021 sexual assault accusations.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office never pressed criminal charges on Bauer after reviewing an investigation by the Pasadena Police Dept. However, litigation continued through a defamation suit from the former Dodger and counter defamation suit by the accuser.
Bauer posted a video to social media, saying he was "finally able to talk about this.”
"Over the last two years I've been forced to defend my integrity and my reputation in a very public setting," Bauer said in the video. "Hopefully this is the last time I have to do so, as I prefer to just remain focused on doing my job, winning baseball games and entertaining fans around the world."
In the video, Bauer showed a series of text messages that Hill sent to friends, insinuating a setup on her part. Some of the messages showed conversations where Hill said, “I’m going to his house Wednesday. I’ve already got my hooks in.” In a later text message in relation to a conversation about Bauer’s net worth, Hill said, “Need daddy to choke me out,” and “Being an absolute whore to try to get in on his 51 million.”
A personal video of Hill, which Bauer said was sent to her friends minutes after she left his apartment, according to the metadata, showed her lying in bed next to Bauer, smiling and with a seemingly unmarked face, different from bruised photos that were presented at the start of the allegations.
Since Bauer released his video on Oct. 2, Hill has publicly refuted Bauer’s claims, saying the messages were taken out of context and that her face looked unmarked in the video due to the lighting.
In response to the lighting remark, Bauer’s agent
Rachel Luba wrote in an online statement, “I guess the ‘lighting’ also made her smirk connivingly at the camera too. This is the face of triumph if I’ve ever seen it.”
A financial settlement was discussed, according to Bauer, to which he said, “As I have done since day one, I refuse to pay her even a single cent.”
Despite no charges filed against Bauer, the
Dodgers opted to part ways with the pitcher in January, still paying the remainder of his $22 million contract for 2023. Bauer opted to play in Japan for the Yokohama DeNA Baystars.
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