HOUSTON — Deshaun Watson offered a $100,000 settlement figure to each of the 22 women who filed civil lawsuits against him last spring, according to the most recent litigation brought against him this week.
Attorney Tony Buzbee made the claim in the 23rd civil suit filed against Watson on Tuesday, in a footnote pertaining to a meeting between Watson’s defense attorneys and Nia Smith, the Houston cosmetologist who has brought the most recent litigation against the Cleveland Browns quarterback. In the lawsuit, Buzbee claims that during a meeting in which Smith believed Watson’s lawyers were trying to “intimidate” her, they said they planned to “fight the [civil] cases to the fullest extent.