Explaining why he viewed his sexual encounter with Constand as consensual, Cosby recounted that his accuser had not appeared mad afterward. One says he raped her while she was grief stricken over the recent death of her six-year-old son. In unsealing the records, a federal judge in Philadelphia deemed Cosby a public figure and a “public moralist” for the criticisms he’s leveled against parts of the black community. Emmons said she had been devastated by the behavior of someone she had considered a close friend. As they got to know the women individually, it had surprised them how their stories are surprisingly similar, despite never meeting each other-that is Cosby drugging them with a pill and took advantage of them while they were half unconscious. This contradicts Cosby’s own claim that the sexual relations between them were consensual.
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She alleged in 2005 that Cosby drugged and molested her after she visited his Cheltenham home a year earlier, seeking career advice.
She argued that Cosby has hired a team of lawyers, agents and publicists to attack accusers and media reports, while Constand, now a physical therapist in the Canadian province of Ontario, has been forced to remain silent. “For months on the road, my chaperone was the only consistent face I saw”.
“I think that I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them“, Cosby said in his now infamous deposition, which was leaked to the media. “What happened at the Smothers Brothers show?!’ I had no idea what she was talking about, and said so”.
When she returned to New York, her manager told her that gossip about her being a lesbian was spreading throughout the television industry – all thanks to Cosby. “She doesn’t walk out with an attitude of a huff”, he said.
“[Cosby] fails to realize that the settlement in this matter was designed to compensate Plaintiff for the injuries Defendant inflicted upon her and to silence BOTH sides”, Troiani’s motion said.
Constand was the first person to file a lawsuit against Cosby. One after another, women publicly shared their stories, until, as of last week, 46 women had publicly accused the comedian of rape or sexual assault. Articles from the Sunday Rutland Herald and Times Argus show the way that even our criminal justice system is designed to make the victims responsible for the prosecution of a crime committed against them.
The reason Constand and Cosby are back in court is because Cosby’s deposition has been released, partly through a court order and partly through a leak.
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“We are very pleased that the case is now moving forward whether Mr. Cosby likes it or not”, Allred tells USA TODAY in a statement. She suggested the tweets were instead about gay marriage.
