Last week, attorney Gloria Allred held a press conference with the three new women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
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Cosby, who has not been charged with a crime, is scheduled to give a deposition on October 9 in the only instance not affected by statutes of limitation, that of Judy Huth, who contends he molested her as a teenage minor in 1974. A California judge recently ordered that Cosby be deposed for the suit, which is allowed to go forward after so many years because it’s a civil case.
Cosby sent her three dozen roses, but she rebuffed his continued advances. I don’t remember how we got to his hotel room. “We expect to take the deposition of Bill Cosby, not the friendly father figure of his television character, Dr. Huxtable”. Though the comedian’s lawyers have defended him on TV, Cosby has remained quiet as the allegations have piled up over the months.
She paused, wiping tears from her eyes.
“I was throwing up”, she said. “It took me this long to say something because the burden of saying something has a huge effect on so many lives, mine included”.
Attorney Gloria Allred is representing the women and other alleged victims.
One was an aspiring actress, the other a flight attendant.
The two women were accompanied by Allred and Sarita Butterfield, a former Playboy model who has previously spoken out against Cosby for assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15 years old.
“I could barely stand up”.
“He made me kneel down”, she explained. The incident occurred at the Playboy Mansion and, like ” Elizabeth and many others, she claims to have been drugged during dinner before Cosby assaulted her. When she saw him again on the set of the film, Fox says of Cosby, “He looked through me”.
Fox then relayed her allegations, delving into her experiences working as an extra on Uptown Saturday Night in the 1970s, where she met Cosby. She said they met while he was a passenger on her American Airlines flight from LaGuardia to LAX, “He invited me to the Playboy Mansion to lay out in the sun while he played tennis with James Brown”. Soon after, she remembers waking up naked in Cosby’s bed. “I was incapacitated, and I couldn’t say no. He engaged in sexual activity with me”. When she was driven home in his black Rolls Royce she said she was, “profusely vomiting”. “I was afraid to call it out”.
“They are speaking out now because they want the world to know what they allege they were forced to suffer because they had the misfortune to meet a man that they admired and thought that they could trust, Bill Cosby“, Allred said at the news conference.
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“I always have an expectation that any deponent…will be truthful because that is their duty under the law to give truthful testimony”, Allred said. However, after some pressure from Mr. Cosby, Elizabeth did have some sake.
