Former Harrah’s employee filed a motion to dismiss Roethlisberger suit

Stacy Dingman, a former Harrah’s employee, said she was formerly the best friend of the woman who claimed Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her during a celebrity golf tournament in July 2008. And she has filed a motion to dismiss the Roethlisberger suit because she did not want to be “unjustifiably dragged into this baseless lawsuit.”


Dingman used to work as director of hotels at Harrah’s and was among the nine defendants named in the lawsuit filed last month in Washoe County District Court. The woman who sued Roethlisberger said the nine defendants conspired to cover up the alleged incident because Roethlisberger is friends with John Koster, one of the nine and president of Harrah’s northern Nevada operations.

However, in the motion filed Monday, a Reno lawyer representing Dingman said that there is no evidence or witnesses to support any of the allegations in the lawsuit because the woman did not do anything to report the alleged incident right after the incident but claimed sexual assault a year after it occurred.