Gibbons seeks dismissal of Mazzeo lawsuit

Lawyers representing Gov. Jim Gibbons filed a motion late Friday that asks a judge to dismiss the federal lawsuit filed by a woman who claims the politician assaulted her in 2006.

According to the motion, every claim in the case stems from a "single and simple allegation": that Gibbons battered Chrissy Mazzeo on Oct. 13, 2006, in the Howard Hughes Center parking garage.

"However, the physical evidence irrefutably proves that GIBBONS never touched MAZZEO in the parking garage that night," according to the document. "In fact, the physical evidence irrefutably establishes that neither GIBBONS nor MAZZEO ever set foot inside the parking garage. As a result, all of MAZZEO's claims asserted against GIBBONS must be dismissed."

Mazzeo admitted during her deposition, according to the motion, "that she has no evidence whatsoever to support the vast majority of her inflammatory and salacious allegations of conspiracy among the various defendants, including GIBBONS, to deprive her of civil rights or retaliate against her, and in fact, she had no such evidence at the time she originally filed her complaint."

Mazzeo claims she drank cocktails with Gibbons, then a candidate for governor, and others at McCormick & Schmick's near Flamingo and Paradise roads.

She claims he later assaulted her in the nearby Howard Hughes Center parking garage and then used his influence to cover up the incident.