a woman claims Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian, NBC Universal and other companies on Friday (December 30, 2022) in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month.
Stacy Pinkerton She says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and model that year when she claimed Cosby drugged her at a restaurant in Illinois and took her back to a hotel room in Chicago. The lawsuit alleges that Cosby “compulsively had sexual intercourse with her” while she was incapacitated from using drugs.
The lawsuit comes more than a year after Cosby subsequently left prison His 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania flipped over. Earlier this year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy mansion when She was a teenager in 1975.
Pinkerton says the alleged assault came after she met Cosby in New York and He promised to help her career. She says she played a role on an episode of “The Cosby Show.” NBCbut did not appear in the final edit.
Months after the alleged assault, Pinkerton said Cosby invited her to his show at a Chicago theater, where she alleged he kissed and forcibly touched her.
“Cosby engaged in the same or a similar pattern of behavior with his victimsPinkerton’s lawsuit says, “including expressing interest in advancing their careers, offering them roles on The Cosby Show, using The Cosby Show and its filming locations as a means to reach and isolate women, sexually harassing and sexually assaulting them, using drugs to incapacitate its victims and forcibly having sex with them without their consent.” “.
“As we’ve always said, and now America can see, this isn’t about getting justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it is It’s all about the moneyWhite wrote in an email Associated Press. “We believe that the courts, as well as the Court of Public Opinion, will follow the rule of law and clear Mr. Cosby of these alleged charges.”
reps NBC UniversalKaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Television did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday night. All three companies participated in the production Pinkerton’s suit said on “The Cosby Show.”
The lawsuits were filed by Pinkerton and five other women under the New York suit A one-year window for adults to file a sexual assault file Complaints about claims that are outside the statute of limitations for litigation.
Cosby spent nearly three years in prison before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction, finding that he made incriminating testimony about the encounter only after he believed he had immunity from prosecution. Trial judge W Intermediate Court of Appeal No evidence of such immunity was found.
Seven other defendants received a settlement from Cosby’s insurance companies following a Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit they filed in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit said that Cosby and his agents disparaged them in denial allegations of abuse.
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