The group says it is working with women who have accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them.
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Bill Cosby faced more backlash this week after documents from a 2005 lawsuit revealed he admitted to procuring drugs to give to women.
President George W. Bush presented the nation’s highest civilian honor to Cosby in 2002, citing his revolutionary portrayal of blacks on television and his interest and dedication to education. He said Constand’s encounter with him was consensual. His admission came in a deposition in a 2005 sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Cosby by Constand, a ex- Temple University basketball team employee.
She said she woke up the next morning sore, with her clothes askew and a vague memory of being fondled.
“Although the women were known as the ‘Jane Does, ‘ Cosby successfully petitioned the Court to permit their names to be made public.”
The Canadian police report was forwarded to Pennsylvania and investigated.
These are the “costs” to Cosby – starting with the shredding of his last vestige of plausible deniability for those who continued to believe the once-beloved comic and actor. In it, Cosby admitted obtaining quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
“First of all, I kept it a secret because I was afraid to talk about it, because of Mr. Cosby’s power”. The revelations in the court documents have also caused a ex- Cosby supporter, Jill Scott, to comment on Twitter and express her disgust.
Cosby has never been charged with any crime relating to the rape allegations.
The parties settled the case in 2006, and both sides signed a confidentiality agreement.
Andrea Constand’s lawyer argued in a sanctions motion Wednesday that the entire deposition should be made public, including questions Cosby answered under oath about his use of quaaludes and other drugs, his alleged use of hush money to silence women, his deal to have an accuser’s story spiked and his alleged affairs with other women.
But Constand follows several other Cosby accusers on Twitter, including model Beverly Johnson and comedy writer Joan Tarshis, and after the Cosby documents were unsealed on Monday, she tweeted: “YES!” and “SIR!”
Most recently, the African-American TV network Centric, which is owned by BET, has made a decision to discontinue reruns of The Cosby Show, which originally aired from 1984 until 1992.
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