Genstar Chair Calls Ex-Partner’s Assault Claims ‘Pure Fiction’

Genstar Capital Chairman Jean-Pierre “J-P” Conte denied his former longtime girlfriend’s claim that he assaulted her in the Aspen house they shared, counter-suing her for defamation.

Conte on Thursday filed a response to the assault and battery lawsuit that Hillary Thomas, with whom he had a relationship for more than a decade, filed against him last month in Colorado state court. He called her claims “pure fiction.”

“There was absolutely no physical abuse or attack,” Conte’s lawyers said in the filing, adding, “Thomas only came forward with her false account — alleging for the first and only time that Mr. ...