Almost 60 women have accused Cosby, who has denied all wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. Cosby’s lawyers were expected to file a response Friday to a defamation lawsuit filed past year in federal court in MA.
Advertisement
Dickinson’s defamation suit is one of four filed against the comedian in the past year.
“There’s no reason that any of the victims of this situation should have to live with a scarlet letter in their lives”, Bowman, an Arizona resident, said in a conference call Friday.
“I’m not a liar and I’m going to go under oath to clear my name, and have confidence with a jury that justice will be done”, she told reporters.
Again in 1969 Louisa Moritz says she was attacked by Cosby while waiting in a dressing room ahead of an appearance on “The Tonight Show“. “A auto drove toward me and past me and as they passed me a woman spat out the window at me and yelled, ‘Liar!”
However, Cosby’s spokeswoman, Monique Pressley, said in a statement that Dickinson has not yet met the legal burden needed to compel Cosby and Singer to give depositions. However, Cosby’s attorneys appealed the decision and the court is now seeking legal briefs by the end of the month before making a final ruling.
Speaking exclusively to the Mail Online last year, Barbara Bowman alleged that Cosby drugged and raped her in 1985 when she was just 17 years old and an aspiring actress.
A California appeals court has temporarily halted a scheduled deposition of Bill Cosby in Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit, The Associated Press reports. The statute of limitations expires November 21, he noted.
Joseph Cammarata, who represents the women, said all seven believe Cosby defamed them when his representatives – including the comedian’s longtime lawyer, Martin Singer, who he recently fired – issued public statements in 2014 denouncing their stories as absurd and untrue.
Advertisement
All are known accusers who have come forward publicly in various forums to accuse Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them in episodes dating back to the mid-1960s.
