SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) â A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against comedian Bill Cosby, although he still faces criminal charges in Pennsylvania. Judge Mark Mastroianni ruled Thursday that Katherine McKee didn’t adequately show Cosby defamed her when his representatives called a 2014 New York Daily News story on her rape allegations […]
BOSTON (AP) â The wife of Bill Cosby said she never read a deposition in which her husband acknowledged he gave sedatives to women he was planning to have sex with, according to an excerpt of her testimony in a defamation lawsuit against her husband. Camille Cosby testified last month in the civil case filed […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) â The former district attorney who declined to arrest Bill Cosby on sex-crime charges a decade ago testified Tuesday that he essentially granted the comedian lifetime immunity from prosecution in the case. Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor took the stand in a bid by Cosby’s lawyers to get the case […]
Bill Cosbyâs lawyers asked a federal judge to throw out a defamation lawsuit filed by three women who accuse the comedian of sexual assault. His lawyers said Monday that the actor was merely acting in âself-defenseâ when his representatives responded to the allegations through statements to the media, reports The Associated Press. They say some […]
ATLANTA (AP) â An Atlanta college is suspending its endowed professorship with Bill Cosby amid allegations by more than two dozen women that the comedian and actor sexually assaulted them. Spelman College is the latest school to disassociate itself from Cosby. Spelman says in a statement that the program was established in the name of […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) â An Iowa venue says a Bill Cosby performance scheduled for next year has been postponed indefinitely. The Des Moines Civic Center said Monday it notified ticketholders that they will receive a refund for the planned March 7 concert. Cosby stage shows have been canceled in several other states. The actions follow […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by a Southern California woman who claims the comedian molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15 years old. Judy Huth’s sexual battery lawsuit does not specify how much she is seeking from Cosby, who has in recent weeks […]
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) â The protesters didn’t show, the would-be hecklers didn’t take the bait, the weeks of headlines about sexual assaults disappeared and Bill Cosby, for 90 minutes at least, regained the revered status he long enjoyed. The show Friday night in Melbourne, Florida, might have seemed destined for disaster for the comedian, enveloped […]
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) â A Florida woman who came forward Thursday became the fourth in recent weeks to say Bill Cosby gave her pills that made her feel groggy then forced himself on her sexually. Therese Serignese, now 57 and a nurse in Boca Raton, said the television icon raped her in 1976 when […]
