Associated Press
May 7, 2025, 03:51 PM ET
LOS ANGELES — A woman is suing former Los Angeles Lakers player and coach Byron Scott, accusing him of sexually assaulting her during a team event at her high school in 1987, when he was 26 and she was 15.
The lawsuit first filed in December 2022 and amended on May 1 accuses Scott of sexual battery and false imprisonment. Scott, 64, fought to have his name removed from court documents, but a judge denied his request to be identified only as “John Doe.” The amended complaint named him publicly for the first time.
During a visit from the Lakers when the plaintiff was attending summer classes at Campbell Hall High in Los Angeles, “she was sexually assaulted by Byron Scott in a locked janitor’s closet in the high school gymnasium,” according to the court filing. Scott was a Lakers player at the time.
The lawsuit was filed in 2022 under a California law that temporarily allowed older cases to be filed for underage plaintiffs. That law required the defendant to remain anonymous until certain thresholds were crossed.
Scott’s attorney, Linda Bauermeister, said her client doesn’t deny that sexual contact occurred but maintains that he thought