Bill Cosby, 81, was handed a three-to-ten-year prison sentence “for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. He will almost certainly go straight to prison today. Before sentencing, Judge Steven T. O’Neill upheld a state board’s finding that Mr. Cosby is a sexually violent predator. The court released Constand’s full victim … Read more
The jury on the second Bill Cosby-Andrea Costand trial (i.e., three charges of aggravated indecent assault) deliberated all day today without result. The trial happened in the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Same racial composition as the jury for the first trial, which ended on 6.17.17 as a mistrial — … Read more
Bill Cosby today countersued seven of his alleged victims — Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Angela Leslie and HE’s own Joan Tarshis, whom I’ve known since the late ’90s — over their recent defamation of character lawsuit related to drug rapes they all claim to have experienced during private encounters … Read more
There are reportedly at least 45 women who have accused Bill Cosby of mickey-finn rape. There are probably still more who haven’t yet spilled the beans. Now there’s a New York cover story, reported and written by Noreen Malone, that’s comprised of testimony from 35 Cosby victims. It’s titled “‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women … Read more
Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Bill “While You Were Sleeping” Cosby testified in 2005 that he bought quaaludes to give to women he intended to have sex with. Tonight a pair of Cosby’s victims, Barbara Bowman and Joan Tarshis, told CNN’s Don Lemon that the report is a “game changer” and “huge.” In … Read more
Tonight at 9pm Eastern CNN’s Don “Bite Me” Lemon will co-host a round-table discussion of five Bill Cosby accusers — Joan Tarshis, Barbara Bowman, Kristina Ruehli, Patty Mastin and Victoria Valentino. The dominant consensus in this clip is that most of them want Cosby to suffer the lash. Tarshis is the lone-wolf, stand-out humanist who … Read more
Two days ago Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd led a discussion of the Bill Cosby scandal. Before he asked for opinions he ticked off the numerous breaks that drove the story along, including my 11.16 posting of Joan Tarshis‘s account. It’s not likely that HE will merit a mention on Meet The Press again … Read more
Joan Tarshis initially told me about her Bill Cosby encounters 14 or 15 years ago, but she didn’t want to go public. But seven years ago Hollywood Interrupted‘s Mark Ebner posted a fairly damning, well-sourced piece about Cosby’s booty bandit compulsions for everyone to reflect upon…and the story just laid there. Ebner wrote at the … Read more
HE crashed this morning due to a huge traffic surge from the Joan Tarshis/Bill Cosby story that I posted yesterday afternoon. The tech guys at Liquid Web didn’t spot the problem, but it was obvious to me. I had to increase my memory and storage capacity to the tune of an extra $75 monthly. The … Read more
Sexual assault accusations have been raining down on Bill Cosby over the last week or two, above and beyond a 2006 out-of-court payoff to alleged victim Andrea Constand. 13 women have reportedly accused the comedian of intimate transgressions of one kind or another. Last Thursday the Washington Post published a piece by alleged Cosby victim … Read more