Another university takes back honourary degree from Bill Cosby

Cuban-American actress Louisa Moritz, one of Bill Cosby’s alleged victims, is suing the comedian for defamation following comments made by his lawyer.

Friday’s development comes after a New Hampshire woman filed a separate defamation lawsuit against Cosby earlier this week in federal court in Springfield, Mass., where the seven women’s lawsuit is also playing out.

Ms. Bowman says she was drugged and raped by Mr. Cosby in the 1980s.

She said the comedian offered to be her mentor and spent months gaining her complete trust before beginning his attacks at a hotel in Reno in 1986. Ms. Tarshis, of NY, says she was drugged and raped on two occasions around 1969 or 1970. She claimed in a previous interview with TMZ that she was in the green room of the “Tonight Show” when Cosby, a frequent guest host, knocked on the door. Moritz said Cosby entered her dressing room, exposed his penis to her, and said, “Have a taste of this”. Leslie, of MI, claims Cosby assaulted her while she met with him in his Las Vegas suite in 1992. His insurance company has been required to pay the cost of defending the defamation claim brought forward by Janice Dickinson, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Because of the historic nature of a few of the claims they fall outside of the time limit for charges to be brought.

Tarshis described the backlash she experienced after Cosby’s team publicly denied her story, recalling how she was even spat on by a woman who accused her of being a liar.

Spokesmen for Cosby, including the comedian’s longtime attorney Martin Singer, who he recently fired issued public statements in 2014 denouncing the stories as “absurd and untrue”. But a statement provided today by spokeswoman Abby Simmons said “the university is having internal discussions about Bill Cosby’s honorary degree”.

Bill Cosby just got a few good news… a court has ruled his insurance company may have to foot the bill in the event he loses his sexual assault case to Janice Dickinson.