5 women accuse Hollywood comedian Cosby of sexual harassment

Five women have filed a lawsuit against channel NBC and actor Bill Cosby under a New York state law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations for old claims of sexual assault. The women alleged on Monday that Cosby either raped them or forced them to perform sexual acts.

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Four of the allegations date back to the late 1980s or early 1990s, when the actor was at the height of his fame as the star of ‘The Cosby Show’ on NBC. The fifth allegation involves former Hollywood executive Cindra Ladd, who accused Cosby of raping her in 1969. One is actress Lily Bernard, who guest-starred on ‘The Cosby Show’ and who first came forward with her allegation in 2015 at a press conference with Gloria Allred. Bernard filed a separate lawsuit against Cosby in New Jersey in 2021.

Bernard also attended a June 2022 civil trial in Santa Monica, California, in which a jury ordered Cosby to pay $500,000 to Judy Huth for sexually assaulting her in 1975 when she was 16. Bernard, Ladd, Eden Tirl, Jewel Gittens and Jennifer Thompson filed the lawsuit in New York under the Adult Survivors Act, which provides for a one-year lookback window for accusers to file civil claims of sexual assault regardless of the statute of limitations. gives.

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Cosby’s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, called the lawsuit “frivolous” and said all five of the women had also come forward between 2014 and 2016. Wyatt said, “As we’ve always said, and now America can see, this isn’t about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it’s about money. We believe that the courts, as well as The court of public opinion will follow the rule of law and clear Cosby of these alleged allegations. Cosby vehemently denies all allegations made against him and stands ready to defend himself.”

Cosby, 85, was convicted of criminal sexual assault in April 2018 in Pennsylvania. But in 2021, he was released by the state Supreme Court after spending almost three years in jail.



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