Actor Invoice Cosby is dealing with new sexual assault and battery accusations after 5 ladies filed a lawsuit Monday beneath New York’s new Grownup Survivors Act.
Two actors who labored on The Cosby Present — Lili Bernard and Eden Tirl — are among the many plaintiffs, experiences ABC Information. The opposite ladies listed embody Jewel Gittens, Jennifer Thompson and Cindra Ladd.
The lawsuit accuses Cosby of assault, battery, infliction of emotional misery and false imprisonment. The lawsuit additionally names NBC, the present’s manufacturing firm and the place The Cosby Present was filmed, in addition to Common Media and Kaufman Astoria Studios for his or her obvious failure to guard the ladies.
The 5 plaintiffs say Cosby, 85, took benefit of them a number of a long time in the past as a result of they had been younger and weak.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court docket, stated 4 of the ladies had been allegedly abused within the late ’80s and early ’90s.
“Every plaintiff was sexually assaulted and battered by defendant Invoice Cosby in the identical or related method when he used his energy, fame, and status, together with the facility, fame and status given to him by (the) defendants … to misuse his monumental energy in such a nefarious, horrific means,” the swimsuit states.
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Bernard, who performed the position of Mrs. Minifield on The Cosby Present, stated Cosby drugged and raped her on two events in 1990 and 1991.
Tirl, who performed a small position as a police officer on the present in 1989, alleges that Cosby inappropriately touched her with out consent whereas in a dressing room.
Two of the opposite ladies, Gittens and Ladd, allege that they had been drugged and raped by Cosby. Thompson alleges Cosby touched her inappropriately with out her consent when she was 18.
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Cosby has denied the allegations via an announcement from his representatives.
“Mr. Cosby continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged towards him and appears ahead to defending himself in court docket.”
Cosby has confronted dozens of comparable accusations in recent times, with greater than 50 ladies coming ahead in 2014 and 2015 to say that that they had been assaulted by the now-disgraced tv star.
His 2018 trial marked the primary main trial of the #MeToo motion. He was convicted of the sexual assault of Andrea Constand on the time and was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in jail. Nevertheless, he was launched in 2021 when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, saying his due course of rights had been violated.
FILE – This June 30, 2021, file picture reveals Invoice Cosby gesturing exterior his residence in Elkins Park, Pa., after being launched from jail.
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Earlier this 12 months, jurors at a civil trial discovered that Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old woman on the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
The Los Angeles County jury delivered the decision in favor of Judy Huth, who’s now 64, and awarded her $500,000.
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