Bill Cosby faces new rape allegation

Bill Cosby faces a new lawsuit accusing him of rape in 1972. The comedian and actor was released from prison in June 2021 after a 2018 sexual assault conviction was overturned on a technicality. This did not mean that he was exonerated from drugging and sexually assaulting his accuser. Andrea Constandaccusations he has denied.

Now a woman called Donna Motsinger who worked in a Bay Area restaurant in the 70s accused Cosby of drugging and raping her, reports the Rolling Stone portal.

Motsinger, who worked as a waitress at The Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California, She claims in the lawsuit that the actor drugged her and sent her home with nothing but underwear.

The plaintiff alleges that she met Cosby at the Bay Area establishment and that he regularly visited the restaurant to see her. Motsinger claims that he invited her to her show at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos and that Cosby picked her up in a limousine.

Motsinger then alleges that Cosby gave him a glass of wine on the way to the theater. It is alleged that Cosby took her to a dressing room and Motsinger began to feel unwell. In the following moments, Motsinger claims that the comedian gave her what she thought was aspirin but that after taking the pill she began to lose consciousness. She alleges that she “knew that Bill Cosby had drugged and raped her”.

The lawsuit says: “In the limousine, Mr. Cosby sat near the window and put his arms around her. The last thing Motsinger remembers were flashes of light.

“She woke up in her house with no clothes on except her underwear on: no top, no bra and no pants.”

Production company Jemmin Inc., the now-dissolved MCA Inc. and Circle Star Theater Corp. are also named as defendants in the new lawsuit. The companies have not yet responded to the allegations.

Motsinger seeks compensation for unspecified damages. His attorney Jesse Creed told Deadline that the organizations “not only provided a platform for Mr. Cosby to display his fame and fortune to attract women, but then put their own profits before the safety of their female guests by turning a blind eye.” before Mr. “Cosby’s alleged sexual assaults on women.”

Bill Cosby’s background

In June 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction following an appeal by his legal team.

He was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting the accuser Andrea Constand and promised to serve the 10 years of his sentence rather than acknowledge any remorse.

Last year, five women filed a new lawsuit against Cosby for alleged sexual assault. The actor’s representatives have denied the legitimacy of those claims.

Lisa Blooman attorney representing one of Cosby’s accusers, said in response to the overturned conviction in June 2021 that the ruling did not mean he was innocent of what he had been convicted of.

“It is important to understand that nowhere in the 79-page decision did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court say that Bill Cosby is innocent,” he said. [a través de Sky News ]. “They didn’t say he’s exonerated. They didn’t say there wasn’t enough evidence to convict him.

“Instead, they said he should never have been prosecuted in the first place because a prosecutor many years ago, back in 2005, promised he would not prosecute him.

“And then a later prosecutor came in and decided to do it. And finally Cosby was convicted. But that was the only reason for the court’s decision and no one should take this as a declaration of innocence.”

Meanwhile, the five women who had previously alleged that the disgraced actor and comedian had abused them, who filed a lawsuit last December, are Lili Bernard, Eden Tirl, Jewel Gittens, Jennifer Thompson and Cindra Ladd [vía The Guardian].

Their lawsuit claims that Cosby had assaulted each of the women at various times between the late 1960s and 1990s.

Legal documents say NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Television were complicit in Cosby’s alleged misconduct and “facilitated the sexual assault of women” by refusing to monitor his actions.

Meanwhile, in June last year, a jury found Cosby guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s. [a través de Vanity Fair]. Cosby denied the allegations. The plaintiff received $500,000.