Disney removes Bill Cosby statue at Hollywood Studios theme park
And the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday that it is conducting at least one current criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Cosby, the department told NPR’s Mandalit del Barco.
Representatives for fellow “Cosby Show” stars Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Phylicia Rashad – who has said she felt the allegations were part of a campaign to destroy Cosby’s legacy – didn’t immediately respond to inquiries about the developments.
She continued: “I’m not sorry for standing by my mentor”.
In her earlier interview with ABC News, Johnson said that upon realizing she’d been drugged, she peppered Cosby with questions and called him names.
In the documented deposition, lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked Cosby: “When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?”
She remains so today, after a judge unsealed documents from a 2005 case, including a deposition in which Cosby admitted to drugging women before sleeping with them. The case was settled on confidential terms, but it was the first in a torrent of lawsuits that have shattered Cosby’s good-guy image as wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s and ’90s.
Comedian Bill Cosby performs at The Temple Buell Theatre in Denver on January 17.
She told the Sun she doesn’t spend much time thinking about Cosby but is interested in supporting sexual-assault victims.
Additional information from the Associated Press. Sadly his own testimony offers PROOF of awful deeds, which is ALL I have ever required to believe the accusations.
More recently, Cosby admitted to obtaining quaaludes with the intention of giving them to women with whom he planned to have sex.
“Even if they willingly participated in consuming drugs or alcohol, the point at which they are incapacitated, they are unable to provide consent for sexual intercourse”, said Morgan Moeller, rape recovery team director with the Women’s Center of Jacksonville.