Cosby’s claim is that he agreed to sit for a deposition, one which he confessed to using Quaaludes as a tool for seduction – reportedly a common drug during that time – but claims he agreed to under a promise they would not seek to prosecute him.
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Actor and Comedian Bill Cosby is pictured in this booking photo provided by Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and taken on December 30, 2015.
Renita Hill, 48, worked with Cosby on his educational program “Picture Pages” during the late 1980s.
Hill’s public accusations were met with denial and distain from the comedian. He promised to appeal.
Judge Arthur J. Schwab dismissed the three claims against Cosby, ruling that the statements “do not support a claim for defamation as defined by Pennsylvania law”, according to the ruling.
Besides Cosby and his lawyers, his wife, Camille, is a defendant in the Hill suit, because of the sole statement she has made about the accusations against her husband, when she raised questions about the motivations of the accusers and said the media failed to adequately vet them.
Hill’s attorneys said that Cosby had mentored Hill as a young woman and paid for her education before arranging meetings in Atlantic City, New York and Denver, where they claim he sexually assaulted her.
Like several other Cosby accusers, she filed suit after Cosby and his lawyers denied all wrongdoing in several statements.
Schwab said the statement was opinion and did not imply or allege that undisclosed, defamatory facts formed the basis for the opinion. He was best known for his role as the dad Heathcliff Huxtable in the long-running 1980s television hit, “The Cosby Show”.
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The only criminal charges against Cosby were filed last month, over the alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004.
