Bill Cosby Sued By 9 More Women For Alleged Sexual Assault
Bill Cosby Sued By 9 More Women For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Them More Than 30 Years Ago
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“One woman alleges that Cosby, claiming to be her acting mentor, lured her from New York to Nevada, where he drugged her in a hotel room with what he had claimed to be non-alcoholic sparkling cider and then raped her,” writes HuffPost.
The women named in the lawsuit are model Janice Dickinson, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Janice Baker Kinney, Lili Bernard, Heidi Thomas, Linda Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Cooper, Pam Joy Abeyta, and Angela Leslie all claiming he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to abuse them.
The accusations come as Nevada lifts its previous law that required adults to file civil sexual abuse cases within two years of the incident, now being dubbed “lookback laws.” The changed law gives people like Lublin a chance to condemn their abuser after years of silence.
“With the new law change, I now have the ability to take my assailant Bill Cosby to court. My journey has just begun, but I am grateful for this opportunity to find justice,” Lublin said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt reacted to the newly filed suit, saying that the women don’t want justice but have ulterior motives of wanting media attention.
“Mr. Cosby is a Citizen of these United States but these judges and lawmakers are consistently allowing these civil suits to flood their dockets-knowing that these women are not fighting for victims-but for their addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed,” Wyatt said. “From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom.”
See how Twitter‘s reacting to the new allegations.
