He made the admission in a deposition during a 2005 civil case brought by Andrea Constand, a former women’s basketball director at Philadelphia’s Temple University.
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The bronze bust of Bill Cosby sat at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza.
Scott, the 43-year-old “Get On Up” actress, was presented with an honorary Temple University doctorate degree by Cosby in 2014, but admitted she was hurt by the recent reports that have surfaced. “Just ask the parents of the boys on the Duke lacrosse team”, she said.
A supermodel who accused Bill Cosby of drugging her during an audition for his 1980s sitcom says testimony excerpts unsealed this week give accusers a sense of peace and validation.
She said she filed a brief arguing against dismissal of the Huth case with the Supreme Court on Monday.
Cosby settled that sexual-abuse lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2006.
But he avoided questions about who he gave drugs to and when, and whether he gave women drugs without their knowledge. In the years since, the number continues to climb. Before fronting The Cosby Show, Cosby was already famous as a standup comedian and as one of the few black actors at the time to land lead roles, including in the hit secret-agent TV series ‘I Spy.’. As a chorus of sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby resounded this winter, a few fans and famous friends stood by him. She is one of three women now suing him for defamation.
Cosby, who turns 78 on Sunday, has never been criminally charged, and statutes of limitations prevent allegations from more than 30 women from going forward.
His lawyers had fought the documents’ release, saying it would be “terribly embarrassing”.
Robreno wrote that Cosby had “donned the mantle of the public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education and crime”.
The sanctions motion Wednesday comes after a judge unsealed excerpts from Cosby’s deposition this week in response to an Associated Press request.
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It was labeled the “pound cake” speech for this passage: “Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals”, Cosby said. The issue is that Cosby has admitted to drugging women to have sex with them against their will (whether or not the courts decide to convict him) and that people continue to be in denial about what this man has said and done.
