Cosby
Los Angeles (AFP) - Bill Cosby will appeal the civil verdict that saw him ordered to pay $500,000 to a woman he allegedly sexually assaulted almost five decades ago, a spokesman said Wednesday. The man once known as "America's Dad" has been accused of predatory behavior by dozens of women in allegations that stretch back decades. But after a sole criminal conviction was overturned on a technicality, Tuesday's civil ruling by a jury in California was the only legal finding of culpability. Despite the ruling, a spokesman for the veteran entertainer said the case was an "astonishing victory" for ...
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Santa Monica (United States) (AFP) - Bill Cosby faced sexual assault allegations at a new civil trial in California Wednesday, where opening statements addressed an alleged attack on a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion almost 50 years ago. The case is one of the few remaining legal actions against Cosby, 84, who has been accused of assault by dozens of women. He was jailed in 2018, but was freed last year when his conviction in a separate criminal case was overturned. Judy Huth, plaintiff in the new California case, alleges the veteran comic once known as "America's Dad" met her in 1975 when...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A trial against Bill Cosby began Monday in California, with a civil suit alleging the disgraced comedian sexually assaulted a teenage girl almost five decades ago. Judy Huth says the man once known as "America's Dad" attacked her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s when she was around 15 years old. Huth says she suffered "psychological damage and mental anguish" as a result of the alleged assault. The case is the latest in a raft of legal actions against 84-year-old Cosby, who was once one of the most popular performers on US television. Dozens of women have said they s...
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New York (AFP) - An actress has sued Bill Cosby alleging that the disgraced comedian drugged and raped her in New Jersey 31 years ago, US court documents show. Lili Bernard said Cosby lured her to the Trump Taj Mahal casino resort in Atlantic City around August 1990 on the pretext of meeting a producer he said could help advance her career. Once in a suite at the hotel, Cosby made her a supposedly non-alcoholic drink and after consuming the beverage, Bernard said she vomited and lost consciousness. She later woke to find Cosby raping her, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday. Bernard said s...
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New York (AFP) - US comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison Wednesday, in a blow to the #MeToo movement after a US court overturned his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 17 years ago. The 83-year-old flashed the V sign outside his home near Philadelphia after leaving jail following a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that he had been denied a fair trial. He did not answer reporters' questions. Cosby, who shattered racial barriers with his Emmy-winning role on "I Spy" in the 1960s, was convicted in 2018 of assaulting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia mansion in 2004. B...
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New York (AFP) - Bill Cosby's trailblazing Hollywood career is recognized in the Smithsonian's African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington -- a decision the institution defended even after his conviction for sexual assault, which was noted in the display. A new chapter in the 83-year-old comedian's tumultuous life story was written Wednesday when he walked free from prison after Pennsylvania' Supreme Court vacated his conviction. It was another stunning turn of events for the Emmy and Grammy winner once known as "America's Dad," whose image was shattered when he was convicted ...
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