A California jury decided Tuesday that Bill Cosby did sexually batter Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when Huth would have been 16 years old and the actor 37. As part of its decision, the jury awarded Huth 500,000 in damages.
The verdict followed a tense two-week trial. Jurors heard from Huth and two other women — Kim Burr and Margaret Shapiro — who all testified under oath that the former Cosby Show star forced himself on them when they were teenagers that same year. Cosby, 84, did not attend the proceeding in Santa Monica,...
The verdict followed a tense two-week trial. Jurors heard from Huth and two other women — Kim Burr and Margaret Shapiro — who all testified under oath that the former Cosby Show star forced himself on them when they were teenagers that same year. Cosby, 84, did not attend the proceeding in Santa Monica,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison on Tuesday for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in a widely viewed trial that #MeToo advocates said doubled as a litmus test for the progress of the movement. Cosby was facing 30 years in prison.
Cosby was taken straight to prison following the sentencing, with Judge Steven O’Neill denying Cosby’s lawyer’s motion to allow him to remain free on bail pending an appeal.
Earlier in the day, O’Neill deemed Cosby a "sexually violent predator," which...
Cosby was taken straight to prison following the sentencing, with Judge Steven O’Neill denying Cosby’s lawyer’s motion to allow him to remain free on bail pending an appeal.
Earlier in the day, O’Neill deemed Cosby a "sexually violent predator," which...
- 9/25/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Two of Bill Cosby’s many accusers said on Sunday that they hope that the disgraced actor-comedian will be sentenced to jail at this week’s hearing.
Accusers Lise-Lotte Lublin and Chelan Lasha, who, with Gloria Allred, spoke to the Associated Press said that they hope they will be able to read victim impact statements before Cosby is sentenced on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault. In 2004, He was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. The sentencing hearing is set for two days and will begin Monday in Montgomery County.
“I really think it’s important that he spend some time behind bars,” Lublin told the AP. “At some point, he should acknowledge what he’s done, and do the time for the crime.”
Lublin said Cosby assaulted her in 1989 while Lasha said she was assaulted in 1986 when she was an aspiring actress.
Accusers Lise-Lotte Lublin and Chelan Lasha, who, with Gloria Allred, spoke to the Associated Press said that they hope they will be able to read victim impact statements before Cosby is sentenced on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault. In 2004, He was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. The sentencing hearing is set for two days and will begin Monday in Montgomery County.
“I really think it’s important that he spend some time behind bars,” Lublin told the AP. “At some point, he should acknowledge what he’s done, and do the time for the crime.”
Lublin said Cosby assaulted her in 1989 while Lasha said she was assaulted in 1986 when she was an aspiring actress.
- 9/23/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrea Constand, whose sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby led to his guilty conviction in April, detailed the 2004 incident in which she says he drugged and assaulted her, for the first time outside of a courtroom in an upcoming interview with “Dateline.”
“Three blue pills. And he put his hand out and I said, ‘What are those?’ And he said, ‘They’ll help you relax,'” Constand said of the time the now-disgraced comedian invited her to his home when she was an operations manager for Temple University’s women’s basketball program, in a preview for the interview released Thursday.
“And I said, ‘Are they natural? Are they, like, a herbal remedy?’ And he said, ‘No, they’re your friends. Just put them down.'”
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She says she took the pills from Cosby, 80, because she “trusted that they would maybe just...
“Three blue pills. And he put his hand out and I said, ‘What are those?’ And he said, ‘They’ll help you relax,'” Constand said of the time the now-disgraced comedian invited her to his home when she was an operations manager for Temple University’s women’s basketball program, in a preview for the interview released Thursday.
“And I said, ‘Are they natural? Are they, like, a herbal remedy?’ And he said, ‘No, they’re your friends. Just put them down.'”
Also Read: Bill Cosby's Sentencing Set for September
She says she took the pills from Cosby, 80, because she “trusted that they would maybe just...
- 5/31/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
NBC News has released a teaser clip of its upcoming Dateline interview with Andrea Constand, the victim in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial that resulted in a guilty verdict last month in Pennsylvania.
In her first TV sit-down, Constand describes in detail to NBC’s Kate Snow her experience during the encounter in 2004, saying Cosby “had three blue pills in his hand” and told her it would “help you relax.” She said Cosby told her “Just put ’em down,”…’they’re your friends.”
She said she took the pills, adding, “I took them because I trusted that they would maybe just help me feel a little more relaxed” and because she trusted him.
After being drugged, she told Snow, “My mind is saying, ‘Move your hands. Kick. Can you do anything? I don’t want this. Why is this person doing this?’ And me not being able to do– react in any specific way.
In her first TV sit-down, Constand describes in detail to NBC’s Kate Snow her experience during the encounter in 2004, saying Cosby “had three blue pills in his hand” and told her it would “help you relax.” She said Cosby told her “Just put ’em down,”…’they’re your friends.”
She said she took the pills, adding, “I took them because I trusted that they would maybe just help me feel a little more relaxed” and because she trusted him.
After being drugged, she told Snow, “My mind is saying, ‘Move your hands. Kick. Can you do anything? I don’t want this. Why is this person doing this?’ And me not being able to do– react in any specific way.
- 5/31/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrea Constand, the victim in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial that resulted in a guilty verdict last month in Pennsylvania, will appear for an exclusive interview Friday on NBC’s Dateline. It will be her first TV sit-down.
The special Dateline episode, “Bringing Down Bill Cosby: Andrea Constand Speaks,” will air at 10 Pm Et and feature interviews with four other Cosby accusers — Janice Baker-Kinney, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Heidi Thomas and Chelan Lasha — who testified against him in the retrial, along with Constand’s mother Gianna Constand.
Kate Snow, who interviewed a group of 27 Cosby accusers as part of a Dateline special in 2015, will host. Friday’s special will also include interviews with Andrea Constand’s attorneys Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, and Angela Rose of Pave (Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment), an advocacy group for survivors of sexual assault.
Constand’s case is the only one against Cosby to result in a criminal trial.
The special Dateline episode, “Bringing Down Bill Cosby: Andrea Constand Speaks,” will air at 10 Pm Et and feature interviews with four other Cosby accusers — Janice Baker-Kinney, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Heidi Thomas and Chelan Lasha — who testified against him in the retrial, along with Constand’s mother Gianna Constand.
Kate Snow, who interviewed a group of 27 Cosby accusers as part of a Dateline special in 2015, will host. Friday’s special will also include interviews with Andrea Constand’s attorneys Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, and Angela Rose of Pave (Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment), an advocacy group for survivors of sexual assault.
Constand’s case is the only one against Cosby to result in a criminal trial.
- 5/29/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrea Constand, the first woman to pursue charges against Bill Cosby for sexual assault, is breaking her 13-year silence for an interview with NBC News' Kate Snow. Bringing Down Bill Cosby: Andrea Constand Speaks will air on Dateline on Friday, June 1st.
Constand is speaking for the first time in a televised interview about the sexual assault and Cosby's retrial. The hour-long special also features interviews with with Janice Baker-Kinney, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Heidi Thomas and Chelan Lasha, four Cosby accusers who testified against him last April. In 2015, Snow interviewed...
Constand is speaking for the first time in a televised interview about the sexual assault and Cosby's retrial. The hour-long special also features interviews with with Janice Baker-Kinney, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Heidi Thomas and Chelan Lasha, four Cosby accusers who testified against him last April. In 2015, Snow interviewed...
- 5/29/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Updated with more details, Cosby outburst, appeal plan: After years of sexual assault accusations, Bill Cosby will soon be headed to prison.
In a dramatic scene, a Montgomery County jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts today on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for Cosby’s January 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Constand, a former Temple University employee, lost consciousness after Cosby gave her three blue pills and a sip of wine. She came to with Cosby digitally penetrating and groping her and forcing her hand on his penis.
The jurors spent nearly 15 hours over two days deciding the verdict after being charged Monday morning.
Victims of Cosby sitting in the Norristown, Pa, courtroom shrieked and cried in delight after the first verdict was announced. The comic sat forward on the edge of his chair, showing little emotion. But when Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele began addressing bail,...
In a dramatic scene, a Montgomery County jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts today on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for Cosby’s January 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Constand, a former Temple University employee, lost consciousness after Cosby gave her three blue pills and a sip of wine. She came to with Cosby digitally penetrating and groping her and forcing her hand on his penis.
The jurors spent nearly 15 hours over two days deciding the verdict after being charged Monday morning.
Victims of Cosby sitting in the Norristown, Pa, courtroom shrieked and cried in delight after the first verdict was announced. The comic sat forward on the edge of his chair, showing little emotion. But when Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele began addressing bail,...
- 4/26/2018
- by Mark Dent
- Deadline Film + TV
The main event of Bill Cosby retrial will begin Friday, when accuser Andrea Constand is scheduled to take the stand as court resumes in the morning.
Judge Steven O’Neill announced Thursday that Constand would be the prosecution’s next witness after Lise-Lotte Lublin stepped down after more than two hours of testimony on Day 4 of the trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Lublin was the last of five accusers allowed to testify as part of the prosecution’s attempt to show a common pattern or scheme to Cosby’s interaction with Constand. Over the past three days on the stand, the five women shared similarities in their alleged encounters with Cosby: claims that he was going to help them in their modeling and acting careers, overtures by Cosby to their families, and an offer of alcohol or pills before sexually assaulting them.
Lublin, who was 23 when...
Judge Steven O’Neill announced Thursday that Constand would be the prosecution’s next witness after Lise-Lotte Lublin stepped down after more than two hours of testimony on Day 4 of the trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Lublin was the last of five accusers allowed to testify as part of the prosecution’s attempt to show a common pattern or scheme to Cosby’s interaction with Constand. Over the past three days on the stand, the five women shared similarities in their alleged encounters with Cosby: claims that he was going to help them in their modeling and acting careers, overtures by Cosby to their families, and an offer of alcohol or pills before sexually assaulting them.
Lublin, who was 23 when...
- 4/12/2018
- by Mark Dent
- Deadline Film + TV
In day four of Bill Cosby’s retrial for accusations of sexual assault, supermodel and reality TV star Janice Dickinson took the stand in suburban Philadelphia on Thursday to testify against the comedian.
According to USA Today, Dickinson told the jury that Cosby raped her in 1982 when she was 27, after he gave her a pill he claimed would help her with menstrual cramps. She revealed that she was “rendered motionless” after taking the pill, as Cosby got on top of her in his hotel room in Lake Tahoe, Calif. When she woke up the next day, she noticed semen between her legs, Dickinson says.
“Do you want to explain what happened last night, because that wasn’t cool,” Dickinson told Cosby at the time, according to her testimony, CNN reported.
“I wanted to hit him, I wanted to punch him in the face. I can remember feeling anger, disgust, and ashamed,...
According to USA Today, Dickinson told the jury that Cosby raped her in 1982 when she was 27, after he gave her a pill he claimed would help her with menstrual cramps. She revealed that she was “rendered motionless” after taking the pill, as Cosby got on top of her in his hotel room in Lake Tahoe, Calif. When she woke up the next day, she noticed semen between her legs, Dickinson says.
“Do you want to explain what happened last night, because that wasn’t cool,” Dickinson told Cosby at the time, according to her testimony, CNN reported.
“I wanted to hit him, I wanted to punch him in the face. I can remember feeling anger, disgust, and ashamed,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Tara Bitran
- Variety Film + TV
The second accuser to testify in Bill Cosby’s retrial, Chelan Lasha, was already sobbing and shaking when she took the stand at the comedian’s retrial on Wednesday.
Lasha told the court that when she was 17 years old, Cosby arranged for her to meet him in the Elvis Presley suite of the Las Vegas Hilton hotel, where she worked in 1986. She said he knew she was interested in modeling and offered to help her career.
Lasha testified that Cosby gave her a drink, and then what he told Lasha was “an antihistamine,” which she took.
“I trusted him,” Lasha said, breaking down into sobs again.
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Lasha said she “could barely move” when Cosby then began rubbing her shoulder. “He laid me in the bed, and I couldn’t move anymore. He molested me. And he kept touching my breasts and humping my leg.” She imitated guttural grunting sounds into the courtroom microphone, and said the next thing she remembered was Cosby’s voice stating, “Daddy says wake up.”
In one of the most emotional moments of the trial so far, Lasha told the court she remembered thinking “What are you doing and why are you doing this to me?.”
“I was a good girl, and he took it all away from me,” she added
Lasha said she later lost her job at the hotel after she heckled Cosby during a performance he gave at the hotel’s theater. Under cross-examination, she said “I was acting out because he raped me.”
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At one point, Lasha addressed Cosby directly from the witness stand: “You remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?” just as Judge Steven O’Neill dismissed jurors for lunch. This statement promoted the defense to motion for a mistrial, but the request was quickly denied by Judge O’Neill.
The defense pushed back against Lasha’s testimony with a request to admit into evidence a 2007 conviction for giving false statements to police. However, the judge only granted Cosby’s team a limited exploration of the conviction during their cross-examination.
Lasha’s testimony Wednesday afternoon was followed by that of a third accuser, Janice Baker-Kinney, who reported a similar incident to that of the other accusers. Baker-Kinney told the court she believed Cosby had administered two Quaaludes to her in 1982, and that she recalled “faceplanting” into the board of a backgammon game she and a friend were playing in his suite.
Baker-Kinney told the court that the next thing she knew, she was immobile with her shirt and pants unbuttoned, not knowing how she got there, as her friend began to leave. Baker-Kinney then said that she remembered being carried into a bed.
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“There was a sticky wetness between my legs,” Baker-Kinney testified. “And it felt like that I had had sex the night before. I have no recollection of time at all, but there was evidence between my legs that something had occurred there.”
Under cross-exmination by Cosby attorney Tom Mesereau, Baker-Kinney interrupted her own response to a question by asking aloud, “Are you rolling your eyes at me?” She told the lawyer that she felt he was “kind of turning her words.”
Cosby is being re-tried on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, stemming from former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusation that the comedian molesting her in 2004 at his home outside of Philadelphia. Cosby’s initial trial in the matter ended in a mistrial in July 2017 after the jury was unable to reach a verdict following five days of deliberations.
Earlier Wednesday, another Cosby accuser, former aspiring actress Heidi Thomas, shared her own accusations against Cosby, referring to him as a “serial rapist.”
“I want to see a serial rapist convicted,” Thomas said while being cross-examined by Cosby’s defense team.
Read original story Bill Cosby Accuser Breaks Down in Tears at Retrial: ‘He Took It All Away From Me’ At TheWrap...
Lasha told the court that when she was 17 years old, Cosby arranged for her to meet him in the Elvis Presley suite of the Las Vegas Hilton hotel, where she worked in 1986. She said he knew she was interested in modeling and offered to help her career.
Lasha testified that Cosby gave her a drink, and then what he told Lasha was “an antihistamine,” which she took.
“I trusted him,” Lasha said, breaking down into sobs again.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Accuser Calls Him a 'Serial Rapist' at Comedian's Retrial
Lasha said she “could barely move” when Cosby then began rubbing her shoulder. “He laid me in the bed, and I couldn’t move anymore. He molested me. And he kept touching my breasts and humping my leg.” She imitated guttural grunting sounds into the courtroom microphone, and said the next thing she remembered was Cosby’s voice stating, “Daddy says wake up.”
In one of the most emotional moments of the trial so far, Lasha told the court she remembered thinking “What are you doing and why are you doing this to me?.”
“I was a good girl, and he took it all away from me,” she added
Lasha said she later lost her job at the hotel after she heckled Cosby during a performance he gave at the hotel’s theater. Under cross-examination, she said “I was acting out because he raped me.”
Also Read: Bill Cosby Accuser Testifies He Pressured Her to Drink, Forced Oral Sex on Her
At one point, Lasha addressed Cosby directly from the witness stand: “You remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?” just as Judge Steven O’Neill dismissed jurors for lunch. This statement promoted the defense to motion for a mistrial, but the request was quickly denied by Judge O’Neill.
The defense pushed back against Lasha’s testimony with a request to admit into evidence a 2007 conviction for giving false statements to police. However, the judge only granted Cosby’s team a limited exploration of the conviction during their cross-examination.
Lasha’s testimony Wednesday afternoon was followed by that of a third accuser, Janice Baker-Kinney, who reported a similar incident to that of the other accusers. Baker-Kinney told the court she believed Cosby had administered two Quaaludes to her in 1982, and that she recalled “faceplanting” into the board of a backgammon game she and a friend were playing in his suite.
Baker-Kinney told the court that the next thing she knew, she was immobile with her shirt and pants unbuttoned, not knowing how she got there, as her friend began to leave. Baker-Kinney then said that she remembered being carried into a bed.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand Is a 'Con Artist,' Defense Attorney Says
“There was a sticky wetness between my legs,” Baker-Kinney testified. “And it felt like that I had had sex the night before. I have no recollection of time at all, but there was evidence between my legs that something had occurred there.”
Under cross-exmination by Cosby attorney Tom Mesereau, Baker-Kinney interrupted her own response to a question by asking aloud, “Are you rolling your eyes at me?” She told the lawyer that she felt he was “kind of turning her words.”
Cosby is being re-tried on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, stemming from former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusation that the comedian molesting her in 2004 at his home outside of Philadelphia. Cosby’s initial trial in the matter ended in a mistrial in July 2017 after the jury was unable to reach a verdict following five days of deliberations.
Earlier Wednesday, another Cosby accuser, former aspiring actress Heidi Thomas, shared her own accusations against Cosby, referring to him as a “serial rapist.”
“I want to see a serial rapist convicted,” Thomas said while being cross-examined by Cosby’s defense team.
Read original story Bill Cosby Accuser Breaks Down in Tears at Retrial: ‘He Took It All Away From Me’ At TheWrap...
- 4/12/2018
- by D.A. Weiss
- The Wrap
Update: Janice Baker-Kinney was the last witness called on the day. That made it three accusers who have, so far, testified to help bolster the prosecution’s case, trying to convince the jury Cosby sexually assaulted former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004.
The defense countered by trying to portray the three accusers as hungry for fame and money — much as they said they would do with Constand — with attorney Tom Mesereau suggesting Baker-Kinney had hired lawyer Gloria Allred to “grab a pot of gold.”
Baker-Kinney described a night in 1981, living in Reno, when a co-worker at Harrah’s Casino invited a friend to a home where Cosby was staying for a “pizza party.” She said she remembers taking two pills Cosby offered her and him saying they were quaaludes. She woke up the next morning beside Cosby, naked and in a haze, feeling like she’d had sex the night...
The defense countered by trying to portray the three accusers as hungry for fame and money — much as they said they would do with Constand — with attorney Tom Mesereau suggesting Baker-Kinney had hired lawyer Gloria Allred to “grab a pot of gold.”
Baker-Kinney described a night in 1981, living in Reno, when a co-worker at Harrah’s Casino invited a friend to a home where Cosby was staying for a “pizza party.” She said she remembers taking two pills Cosby offered her and him saying they were quaaludes. She woke up the next morning beside Cosby, naked and in a haze, feeling like she’d had sex the night...
- 4/11/2018
- by Mark Dent
- Deadline Film + TV
Norristown, Pa. – In the most emotional testimony so far in the sexual assault retrial of Bill Cosby, a California woman sobbed repeatedly on Wednesday as she testified that the entertainer promised to help with her aspiring modeling and acting career – and then gave her a blue pill and proceeded to molest her back in 1984.
“I trusted him,” said Chelan Lasha, crying as she testified on the third day of the retrial. Cosby’s first trial ended when another jury deadlocked on the charges in June.
Lasha lashed out verbally at Cosby during a break, prompting Judge Steven T. O’Neill to admonish her outside the presence of the jury to only answer questions. The judge denied a motion for a mistrial by defense lawyer Kathleen Bliss, who told the judge it sounded like Lasha said, “you knew what you did, Mr. Cosby.”
And all of this occurred in just the first 15 minutes of her testimony,...
“I trusted him,” said Chelan Lasha, crying as she testified on the third day of the retrial. Cosby’s first trial ended when another jury deadlocked on the charges in June.
Lasha lashed out verbally at Cosby during a break, prompting Judge Steven T. O’Neill to admonish her outside the presence of the jury to only answer questions. The judge denied a motion for a mistrial by defense lawyer Kathleen Bliss, who told the judge it sounded like Lasha said, “you knew what you did, Mr. Cosby.”
And all of this occurred in just the first 15 minutes of her testimony,...
- 4/11/2018
- by Emilie Lounsberry
- Variety Film + TV
A judge denied on Wednesday a request by Bill Cosby's lawyers to declare another mistrial in his sexual assault case after a witness outburst. Chelan Lasha had addressed the former Cosby Show star directly in court after testifying about his alleged molestation of her in 1986, saying, "You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?" Cosby is on trial on charges of assaulting another woman, Andrea Constand, in 2004. He has denied any wrongdoing. Cosby's first trial on the case ended in a mistrial in 2017 after a deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict. In his new trial, the judge is allowing Lasha and a few other accusers to testify against him as witnesses. More than 50...
- 4/11/2018
- E! Online
The crux of the Bill Cosby sexual assault case is the same as it was during the original trial. His guilt or innocence depends on the jury’s opinion of what happened between him and accuser Andrea Constand on a winter night in 2004.
But as pretrial hearings concluded today and both sides prepare for jury selection Monday and the beginning of the trial April 9 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa, they appear ready to take different strategies from last year.
The defense in particular has shown interest in portraying the Cosby-Constand relationship in a different light. Last year, Brian McMonagle, Cosby’s now-former lead attorney, opened the trial by calling the night in question “romantic” and trumpeting what Cosby said was a consensual, friendly affair.
Tom Mesereau, Cosby’s current lead attorney, plans on taking a different tack from the get-go. He said he wants to bring up...
But as pretrial hearings concluded today and both sides prepare for jury selection Monday and the beginning of the trial April 9 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa, they appear ready to take different strategies from last year.
The defense in particular has shown interest in portraying the Cosby-Constand relationship in a different light. Last year, Brian McMonagle, Cosby’s now-former lead attorney, opened the trial by calling the night in question “romantic” and trumpeting what Cosby said was a consensual, friendly affair.
Tom Mesereau, Cosby’s current lead attorney, plans on taking a different tack from the get-go. He said he wants to bring up...
- 3/30/2018
- by Mark Dent
- Deadline Film + TV
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