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Bill Cosby Released From Prison After Court Overturns Conviction
A radical of women person travel guardant with allegations against Bill Cosby.
More than a twelvemonth aft his 2021 merchandise from jail, The Cosby Show prima is facing a caller suit from 5 women who each assertion they were sexually assaulted, battered and abused by Cosby. According to tribunal documents, helium utilized his "power, fame, and prestige" to allegedly perpetrate these crimes.
The plaintiffs—Lili Bernard, Eden Tirl, Jewel Gittens, Jennifer Thompson and Cindra Ladd—are besides suing Kaufman Astoria Studios, The Carsey-Werner Company and NBC Universal Media for allegedly knowing Cosby was sexually abusing, assaulting and battering them but seemingly not taking enactment to halt him.
"Over the people of respective decades, Bill Cosby engaged successful the serial and intersexual battle of dozens of women for this intersexual gratification," the tribunal documents read, "while the co-defendants enabled and aided these intersexual assaults to payment financially by their relation with Bill Cosby."
The alleged instances happened connected differing dates wrong the 1960s, the 1980s and 1990s, the documents note. Bernard, who met the histrion connected acceptable of The Cosby Show, accused Cosby of drugging and raping her connected 2 abstracted occasions, successful summation to alleging helium groped her without her consent, attempted to unit her to execute a intersexual enactment connected him against her volition and pushed her down the stairs of his home.
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Tirl, who had a relation connected The Cosby Show, and Gittens—who was mentored by Cosby and visited the acceptable arsenic his guest—also claimed they were sexually assaulted by Cosby.
Thompson, who met Cosby erstwhile she was 17, was besides mentored by him. She alleged that erstwhile she was 18, helium forced her to execute a intersexual enactment connected him without her consent. Ladd, meanwhile, claimed had a platonic relationship with Cosby earlier helium drugged and raped her.
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Cosby's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean spoke retired astir the allegations.
"The suit is nary astonishment arsenic authorities legislatures proceed to abolish statutes of limitations," Bonjean said successful a Dec. 6 connection to E! News. "These statutes acceptable a unsafe precedent arsenic they let accusers to bring uncorroborated, stale claims that are hard to support successful this #metoo climate."
The connection continued, "It is an affront to principles of Due Process and thing the US Supreme Court volition hopefully look astatine eventually. In the meantime, we volition vigorously support each and each accusation brought against Mr. Cosby."
This caller lawsuit comes much than 1 twelvemonth aft Cosby was released from situation following the Pennsylvania's Supreme Court's determination to vacate his 2018 assault conviction in June 2021. Cosby was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, an accusation helium denies. He was sentenced by a judge in September 2018 to service 3 to 10 years successful prison.
In a abstracted case, astir 1 twelvemonth aft his situation release, a assemblage successful California found Cosby liable of sexually assaulting Judy Huth astatine the Playboy Mansion successful the 1970s, erstwhile Huth was a teenager. Cosby denied these allegations.
At the time, Cosby did not be the proceedings successful person. The Jury awarded Huth $500,000 successful damages.
E! News has reached retired to NBCUniversal for comment.
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