Invoice Cosby has been discovered civilly liable of sexually assaulting Judy Huth whereas she was underage on the Playboy Mansion 1975, Us Weekly can affirm.
Throughout the verdict on Tuesday, June 16, a civil jury dominated in favor of Huth, 64, who alleged that the 65-year-old Pennsylvania native had molested her in a bed room throughout a celebration at Hugh Hefner’s home when she was 16 years outdated.
Whereas the Cosby Present alum was not current for the ultimate ruling, paperwork obtained by Us from the two-week-long trial affirm that Huth was rewarded $500,000 in damages. The paperwork additionally state that Huth was “below the age of 18 years” when she got here into contact with Cosby and that he “supposed to trigger dangerous or offensive contact with Ms. Huth by “use of his sexual organs,” whereas being motivated by “irregular” and “unnatural” sexual curiosity in her as a minor.
Regardless of the decision, Cosby’s publicist and disaster supervisor instructed Us on Tuesday that the trial “was an enormous victory” for the disgraced comic.
“They’re searching for thousands and thousands of {dollars},” the rep defined. “That quantity [awarded] is not going to cowl the authorized payments and we will probably be interesting that matter. Nonetheless, Mr. Cosby is not going to be paying punitive damages,” they concluded.
The Pennsylvania native, who has beforehand been accused of sexual misconduct by over 60 ladies, was sentenced to jail after in September 2018 after being deemed a “sexually violent predator” within the assault case towards Andrea Constand. Along with his unique sentencing, he was ordered to bear a lifetime of counseling and seem on a intercourse offender registry.
Constand, 49, testified in April of that very same 12 months that Cosby gave her wine and three blue tablets to “take the sting off” earlier than he sexually assaulted her at his dwelling close to Philadelphia in January 2004.
“When the sexual assault occurred, I used to be a younger girl brimming with confidence and looking out ahead to a future shiny with prospects,” she wrote in a five-page sufferer affect assertion submitted to the courtroom this week. “Now, nearly 15 years later, I’m a middle-aged girl who’s been caught in a holding sample for many of her grownup life, unable to heal totally or to maneuver ahead.”
In June 2021, Us confirmed that the Pennsylvania excessive courtroom discovered an settlement with a earlier prosecutor that prevented Cosby from being charged, which meant the actor was launched from the state jail the place he served two years of his three to 10-year sentence.
Cosby, for his half, spoke out concerning the overturning of his sentence on the time.
“I’ve by no means modified my stance nor my story,” he tweeted in June alongside a photograph of himself together with his fist raised within the air. “I’ve all the time maintained my innocence.”
Cosby went on to precise his gratitude in direction of those that supported him in the course of the scandal. “Thanks to all my followers, supporters and associates who stood by me by this ordeal,” he mentioned. “Particular due to the Pennsylvania Supreme Courtroom for upholding the rule of legislation. #BillCosby.”
