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- ACCER: COSBY ULDN'T 'READ' I WAS GAY
- BILL COSBY'S ORIGAL ACCER ANDREA CONSTAND CALLS HIM A 'NARCISSIST' WHO MISSED CU THAT SHE'S GAY
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COSBY'S FIRST ACTG ASSIGNMENT, THE PNAGE SERI I SPY (1965-68), MA HIM THE FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO -STAR A LEADG DRAMATIC ROLE ON WORK TELEVISN, AS WELL AS THE FIRST TO EARN AN EMMY AWARD. HIS MOST SUCCSFUL WORK, THE COSBY SHOW, APPEARED ON NBC OM 1984 TO 1992 AND WAS THE HIGHT-RATED S FOR SEVERAL NSECUTIVE YEARS. COSBY’S LEGENDARY STAT WAS TARNISHED WHEN NUMERO ACCATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT SURFACED 2014. HIS TRIAL FOR THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT END WH A ADLOCKED JURY JUNE 2017, BUT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY AFTER A RETRIAL APRIL 2018.EARLY LIFECOSBY WAS BORN WILLIAM HENRY COSBY JR. ON JULY 12, 1937, PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. COSBY, THE OLST OF FOUR BOYS, GREW UP PHILALPHIA'S GERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. AT FIRST, THE COSBYS WERE ABLE TO GET BY, FANCIALLY, BUT THE FAY'S MONEY BEGAN TO SLIP WHEN COSBY'S FATHER, WILLIAM COSBY SR., BEGAN DRKG HEAVILY. AFTER HIS FATHER ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY, COSBY BEME LIKE A PARENT TO HIS BROTHERS. COSBY'S MOTHER, ANNA, WORKED CLEANG HO. HE AND HIS FAY ALSO END UP LIVG THE RICHARD ALLEN HOM, A LOW-E HOG PROJECT. AT THE AGE OF 8, COSBY SUFFERED A GREAT LOSS WHEN HIS BROTHER JAM, THE SEND OLST OF THE BOYS, DIED. WH MONEY VERY TIGHT FOR HIS FAY, COSBY STARTED SHG SHO AND WORKED AT A SUPERMARKET DURG HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS. DPE THEIR HARDSHIPS, COSBY'S MOTHER STRSED THE VALUE OF TN AND LEARNG. SHE OFTEN READ BOOKS TO BILL AND HIS BROTHERS, CLUDG THE BIBLE AND WORKS BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MARK TWA. A GIFTED STORYTELLER HIMSELF, COSBY LEARNED EARLY ON THAT HUMOR ULD BE A WAY TO MAKE IENDS AND GET WHAT HE WANTED. COSBY EXCELLED AT MAKG THGS UP. AS ONE OF HIS TEACHERS ONCE NOTED, "WILLIAM SHOULD BEE EHER A LAWYER OR AN ACTOR BEE HE LI SO WELL.'' IN SCHOOL, COSBY WAS BRIGHT BUT UNMOTIVATED. HE LIKED TO TELL STORI AND JOK TO HIS CLASSMAT MORE THAN HE LIKED TO DO HIS SCHOOLWORK. ONE OF HIS TEACHERS ENURAGED HIM TO PUT HIS PERFORMG TALENTS TO E SCHOOL PLAYS, NOT HER CLASSROOM. AT HOME, COSBY LISTENED TO A VARIETY OF RAD PROGRAMS AND STARTED IMATG SUCH EDIANS AS JERRY LEWIS. HE ALSO WATCHED SUCH TELEVISN PERFORMERS AS SID CAAR AND JACK BENNY WHENEVER HE ULD. WHILE HE WAS MORE TERTED SPORTS THAN AMICS — HE WAS ACTIVE ON HIS SCHOOL'S TRACK AND FOOTBALL TEAMS — COSBY WAS PLACED A HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUNTS AFTER SRG HIGH ON AN IQ TT. BUT COSBY FAILED TO APPLY HIMSELF AND END UP FAILG TENTH GRA TWICE. HE SWCHED TO GERMANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT THE AMIC ISSU NTUED. IN TRATN, COSBY DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL. HE WORKED SEVERAL ODD JOBS BEFORE JOG THE U.S. NAVY 1956. DURG HIS ARY SERVICE, COSBY WORKED AS A MEDIL AI ON SHIPS, SEVERAL HOSPALS AND AT OTHER FACILI. HE ALSO JOED THE NAVY'S TRACK TEAM, WHERE HE EXCELLED, PECIALLY THE HIGH JUMP EVENT. REGRETTG HIS CISN TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL, COSBY EARNED HIS HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY DIPLOMA WHILE THE SERVICE. AFTER LEAVG THE NAVY, HE WENT TO TEMPLE UNIVERSY VIA SCHOLARSHIP. WHILE AT TEMPLE, COSBY LAND A JOB AS A BARTENR AT A FFEE HOE. HE TOLD JOK THERE, AND EVENTUALLY LAND WORK FILLG FOR THE HOE EDIAN OM TIME TO TIME AT A NEARBY CLUB. COSBY ALSO PERFORMED AS A WARM-UP ACT FOR HIS 'S RAD SHOW. HE FOUND SPIRATN THE WORKS OF SUCH EDIANS AS DICK GREGORY, AN AIN AMERIN IC WHO OFTEN TALKED ABOUT RACIAL ISSU HIS ROUT. EARLY HIS REER, COSBY DISCSED RACE HIS ACT AS WELL, BUT HE EVENTUALLY DROPPED OM HIS PERFORMANC, CHOOSG TO FOC ON TELLG STORI ABOUT MORE GENERAL AND UNIVERSAL THEM.'I SPY' AND 'FAT ALBERT'NEARLY HALFWAY THROUGH HIS LLEGE REER, COSBY CID TO DROP OUT TO PURSUE A REER STAND-UP EDY. HE STARTED PERFORMG AT A PLACE GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK, AND HE TOURED EXTENSIVELY, WNG OVER FANS. IN 1963, COSBY MA HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON JOHNNY CARSON'S TONIGHT SHOW, WHICH HELPED TRODUCE HIM TO A NATNAL DIENCE. (COSBY WOULD GO ON TO APPEAR ON THE SHOW DOZENS OF TIM.) HE ALSO LAND A RERDG NTRACT AND THAT SAME YEAR RELEASED HIS FIRST EDY ALBUM, BILL COSBY IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW ... RIGHT! HE WON A GRAMMY AWARD (BT COMEDY PERFORMANCE) FOR HIS NEXT EFFORT, 1964'S I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD. FOR THE REMAR OF THE 1960S, COSBY RELEASED H ALBUM AFTER H ALBUM, WNG ANOTHER FIVE GRAMMYS. HE WOULD LATER PICK UP TWO MORE FOR HIS RERDGS FOR CHILDREN AS PART OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY TV SERI. IN 1965, COSBY ALSO HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR AIN AMERIN TV PERFORMERS WH A LEADG ROLE A TV SERI. PORTRAYG ALEXANR STT, HE STARRED WH ROBERT CULP THE PNAGE SERI I SPY. THE TWO SPI PRETEND TO BE A PROFSNAL TENNIS PLAYER (CULP) TRAVELG WH HIS ACH (COSBY). THE SHOW RAN FOR THREE YEARS, AND COSBY RECEIVED THREE NSECUTIVE EMMY AWARDS FOR HIS WORK. NOT LONG AFTER I SPY END, COSBY STARRED HIS OWN S. THE BILL COSBY SHOW RAN FOR TWO SEASONS, OM 1969 TO 1971, AND FEATURED THE EDIAN AS A GYM TEACHER AT A LOS ANGEL HIGH SCHOOL. A FORMER ASPIRG TEACHER, COSBY WENT BACK TO SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSY OF MASSACHETTS AT AMHERST. AROUND THE SAME TIME, HE APPEARED ON THE TNAL CHILDREN'S SERI THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, AND VELOPED THE ANIMATED SERI FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS, WHICH HE BASED ON MANY OF HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENC. IN 1977, COSBY RECEIVED A DOCTORATE URBAN TN OM THE UNIVERSY, HAVG WRTEN HIS DISSERTATN ON FAT ALBERT. (COSBY HAD RECEIVED THE GREE VIA NONTRADNAL METHODS, WH HIS SCREEN WORK REPORTEDLY UNTG TOWARD URSE CREDS.) ON THE BIG SCREEN, COSBY ENJOYED BOX-OFFICE SUCCS WH THE 1974 EDY UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, -STARRG SIDNEY POIER AND HARRY BELAFONTE, WH POIER DIRECTG. CONTUG TO ATTRACT BIG DIENC, HE APPEARED OPPOSE POIER TWO MORE EDY HS, LET'S DO IT AGA AND A PIECE OF THE ACTN, 1975 AND 1977, RPECTIVELY.'THE COSBY SHOW'ONCE AGA TURNG TO HIS LIFE FOR SPIRATN, COSBY BEGAN WORKG ON A NEW TELEVISN SERI. THE S FOCED ON AN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS AIN AMERIN UPLE WH FIVE CHILDREN. EACH OF THE CHILDREN'S CHARACTERS SHARED SOME TRAS OF THEIR REAL-LIFE UNTERPARTS. MARRIED SCE 1964, COSBY AND HIS REAL-LIFE WIFE, CALE, HAD FOUR DGHTERS AND ONE SON. (COSBY ORIGALLY WANTED THE SHOW TO BE ABOUT A DRIVER AND HIS PLUMBER WIFE, WH CALE JOG PRODUCERS TO PH FOR THE SHOW TO BE ABOUT A DOCTOR AND ATTORNEY.) IN 1984, THE COSBY SHOW BUTED TO FAVORABLE REVIEWS AND STRONG RATGS. WEEK AFTER WEEK, THE COSBY SHOW DREW DIENC WH S WARM HUMOR AND BELIEVABLE SUATNS. COSBY'S CHARACTER, DR. HEATHCLIFF HUXTABLE, BEME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR DADS TELEVISN HISTORY. HE ALSO SERVED AS A PARENTAL FIGURE TO HIS YOUNG -STARS, CLUDG SABRA LE BEF, LISA BO, MALLM-JAMAL WARNER, TEMPTT BLEDSOE AND KHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM, AS WELL AS RAVEN-SYMONé AND ERIKA ALEXANR, ON SET. PHYLICIA RASHAD -STARRED WH COSBY AS HIS WIFE, CLAIR. AFTER BEG THE HIGHT-RATED S ON TV FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THE SHOW FALLY END S N 1992. OVER THE SHOW'S EIGHT-SEASON N, COSBY FOUND TIME FOR OTHER PROJECTS: HE APPEARED SEVERAL FILMS, CLUDG LEONARD PART 6 (1987) AND GHOST DAD (1990). IN 1986, COSBY ACHIEVED ANOTHER REER TONE — BEG A BTSELLG THOR. HIS REFLECTNS ON PARENTG WERE CLUD THE BOOK FATHERHOOD, WHICH SOLD LNS OF PI. HIS OP ON AGG, TIME FLI (1987), ALSO ENJOYED HUGE SAL. IN ADDN, COSBY ENJOYED GREAT POPULARY AS A PCHMAN, APPEARG MERCIALS FOR SUCH PRODUCTS AS JELL-O, FOR WHICH HE HAD SERVED AS A SPOKMAN SCE 1974.AFTER THE COSBY SHOW, COSBY NTUED TO WORK TELEVISN. HE STARRED THE COSBY MYSTERI, WHICH HE PLAYED A RETIRED CRIMOLOGIST WHO SOMETIM HELPED OUT A TECTIVE IEND. THEN 1996, HE RETURNED TO SS WH COSBY, RE-TEAMG WH FORMER -STAR RASHAD. THEY WERE UNABLE TO OBTA THE SAME LEVEL OF SUCCS AS THEIR EARLIER EFFORT, BUT THEY DID ENJOY SOME POPULARY, STAYG ON THE AIR FOR FOUR YEARS.PERSONAL LOSSWHILE WORKG ON COSBY, THE EDIAN EXPERIENCED A EP PERSONAL LOSS. HIS ONLY SON, ENNIS, WAS KILLED 1997, SHOT TO ATH WHILE CHANGG A TIRE ON HIS R ON THE SI OF A CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY. AROUND THE SAME TIME, COSBY WAS UGHT UP A PATERNY SNDAL. A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED AUTUMN JACKSON CLAIMED THAT COSBY WAS HER FATHER AND TRIED TO BLACKMAIL HIM FOR $40 LN, SAYG THAT SHE WOULD GO TO THE TABLOIDS IF SHE DIDN'T GET THE MONEY. SHE WAS ARRTED AND NVICTED OF EXTORTN, RECEIVG A 26-MONTH PRISON SENTENCE. (THE NVICTN WAS LATER OVERTURNED AND THEN RESTATED.) COSBY ADMTED THAT HE HAD A BRIEF ENUNTER WH JACKSON'S MOTHER, BUT HE CLAIMED HE WAS NOT AUTUMN'S FATHER.WHILE PG WH THE DIFFICULT EPISOS, COSBY TOOK ON NEW PROFSNAL CHALLENG. HE STARTED A SERI OF CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS FEATURG A CHARACTER NAMED LTLE BILL 1997, WHICH ALSO BEME A CHILDREN'S TV PROGRAM. A EQUENT SPEAKER AT MENCEMENT CEREMONI, COSBY SHARED HIS ADVICE 1999'S CONGRATULATNS! NOW WHAT?: A BOOK FOR GRADUAT. HE TOOK A SER LOOK AT THE TN SYSTEM 2000'S AMERIN SCHOOLS: THE $100 BILLN CHALLENGE, AND PAIRED UP WH HIS DGHTER ERIKA FOR 2003'S FRIENDS OF A FEATHER: ONE OF LIFE'S LTLE FABL. AWARDS AND RETURN TO TVCOSBY HAS RECEIVED NUMERO ACLAS FOR HIS WORK, CLUDG MULTIPLE EMMY, GRAMMY, NAACP AND PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS. HE WAS ALSO HONORED WH THE 2002 PRINTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, THE 2003 BOB HOPE HUMANARIAN AWARD AND THE 2009 MARK TWA PRIZE FOR AMERIN HUMOR. IN NOVEMBER 2013, BILL COSBY RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN WH A NEW SPECIAL ON COMEDY CENTRAL, FAR FROM FISHED. DIRECTED BY ROBERT TOWNSEND, THE PRODUCTN MARKED THE EDIAN'S FIRST NCERT SPECIAL THREE S. ACCATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCTCOSBY MA HEADL 2014, NOT FOR HIS EDY, BUT HIS ALLEGED MISNDUCT. OVER THE YEARS, HE HAD FACED NUMERO ACCATNS OF SEXUAL ASSLT. COSBY DID NOT HAVE CRIMAL CHARG FILED AGAST HIM, BUT HE DID SETTLE WH ONE OF HIS ACCERS OUT OF URT 2006 AFTER SHE LNCHED A CIVIL SU. IN 2014, EDIAN HANNIBAL BURS BROUGHT NEW ATTENTN TO EARLIER ALLEGATNS BY STATG THAT COSBY "RAPED WOMEN" HIS ROUTE, ACRDG TO AFTER THIS CINT, COSBY REMAED SILENT ABOUT THE CLAIMS. MORE WOMEN SOON ME FORTH TO CLAIM THAT THE EDIAN ATTACKED THEM AS WELL, CLUDG MOL JANICE DICKSON. SHE TOLD ENTERTAMENT TONIGHT THAT COSBY GAVE HER WE AND SOME TYPE OF PILL BEFORE HE ALLEGEDLY RAPED HER. THE ACCATNS LED BOTH NBC AND NETFLIX TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WERE DROPPG PROJECTS THAT THEY HAD WH COSBY, WH NCELLATNS TO E AS WELL FOR HIS 2015 STAND-UP TOUR. COSBY DID NOT RPOND DIRECTLY TO THE CLAIMS. AFTER A NATNAL PUBLIC RAD TERVIEW WH COSBY NOVEMBER 2014, A LAWYER SAID A STATEMENT THAT THE EDIAN "WON'T DIGNIFY THE ALLEGATNS WH ANY RPONSE." THAT DECEMBER, AS MORE ACCATNS OF SEXUAL ASSLT SURFACED, COSBY SPOKE TO A REPORTER ABOUT THE NEWS VERAGE OF THE NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIM. HE SAID THAT "I ONLY EXPECT THE BLACK MEDIA TO UPHOLD THE STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE JOURNALISM AND WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU HAVE TO GO WH A NTRAL MD," ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST.COSBY'S WIFE CALE STOOD BY THE EDIAN AS WELL, ISSUG A STATEMENT DECEMBER AS WELL WHERE SHE POSNED HER HBAND AS "KD" AND "GENERO" AND QUTNED THE MEDIA'S PUBLISHG OF ACUNTS OM WOMEN WHOSE BACKGROUNDS HADN'T BEEN VETTED. YET 2015 MORE WOMEN ME FORTH WH CHARG OF SEXUAL ASSLT, WH THERE BEG ULTIMATELY DOZENS OF OTHER ACCERS WH ALLEGATNS OF MISNDUCT. SEVERAL WOMEN, CLUDG DICKSON, ALSO FILED FAMATN LAWSUS AGAST COSBY.THEN EARLY JULY 2015, URT DOCUMENTS OM 2005 WERE ALLOWED TO BE UNSEALED BY A FERAL JUDGE AFTER AN ASSOCIATED PRS REQUT. TTIMONY OM A CIVIL SU ISSUED BY ANDREA CONSTAND REVEALED THAT COSBY HAD GOTTEN HOLD OF PRCRIPTN QUAALUS DURG THE 1970S WH THE TENTN OF GIVG THE DGS TO WOMEN BEFORE ENGAGG SEXUAL ACTIVY. DURG THE TTIMONY, DUE TO HIS ATTORNEY'S OBJECTN, COSBY DID NOT STATE WHETHER HE GAVE WOMEN THE DGS WHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE. IN LIGHT OF THE NEW RMATN, THE EDIAN DID NOT IMMEDIATELY ISSUE A PUBLIC STATEMENT. LATER THE MONTH, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED ON A RELATED POSN WHICH COSBY SPOKE OF MEETGS WH A VARIETY OF WOMEN, ADMTG TO GIVG DGS AS PART OF HIS TERACTNS AND SEXUAL PURSUS. IN LATE JULY 2015, NEW YORK MAGAZE RAN A MULTIMEDIA VER STORY THAT PHOTOGRAPHED AND DIVIDUALLY TERVIEWED 35 OF THE WOMEN WHO HAD ENUNTERS WH COSBY, SOME OF WHOM WERE THEIR TEENS AT THE TIME. THE SAYS HAVE SIAR TAILS, WH MOST OF THE WOMEN STATG THAT THEY WERE DGGED WHOUT THEIR AWARENS OR NSENT. SOME OF THE TERVIEWE ALSO REUNT BEG DIRECTLY ASSLTED. "WE MT ASK OURSELV IF THE LSON WE WANT TO TEACH OUR KIDS IS THAT, AGA, A WOMAN'S VOICE AND BODY ARE NOT VALUABLE OR PREC OR VALID," SAID MOL/ACTRS BEVERLY JOHNSON TO PEOPLE, HAVG ALSO BEEN FEATURED THE NEW YORK MAG ARTICLE. JOHNSON HAD STATED A VANY FAIR SAY THAT COSBY HAD ALSO SURREPTLY DGGED HER DURG THE DAYS OF THE COSBY SHOW. "I KNOW MY TTH, AND I HOPE FOR A SOCIETY THAT IS SENSIVE TO THE PROTECTN OF WOMEN, REGARDLS OF THE STAK."COSBY WAS TO BE POSED BY DICKSON'S TEAM RELATN TO HER FAMATN SU, BUT LATE NOVEMBER COSBY'S ATTORNEYS FILED A REQUT TO HAVE THE POSN PUT ON HOLD. THEN MID-DECEMBER, RPONSE TO A GROUP OF SEVEN WOMEN SUG HIM FOR FAMATN VIA A MASSACHETTS URT, COSBY FILED A FERAL UNTERSU STATG THAT SAID PLATIFFS ARE MAKG "MALIC, OPPORTUNISTIC, AND FALSE AND FAMATORY" CHARG. DAYS LATER, COSBY SUED JOHNSON FOR FAMATN OVER HER ALLEGATNS OF ATTEMPTED ASSLT. AS A RULT OF THE DISTURBG ACCATNS, NUMERO LLEG REVOKED HONORARY GRE AWARD TO COSBY. ADDNALLY, A STATUE OF THE EDIAN WAS REMOVED OM DISNEY’S MGM HOLLYWOOD STUDS PARK JULY 2015.ARRT AND CRIMAL TRIALALTHOUGH MORE THAN 50 WOMEN ME FORWARD WH CLAIMS THAT THE LEGENDARY EDIAN AND ACTOR HAD SEXUALLY VLATED AND/OR DGGED THEM, COSBY MANAGED TO FEND OFF THE ACCATNS. HOWEVER, ON DECEMBER 30, 2015, A WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR COSBY'S ARRT FOR THE ALLEGED DGGG AND SEXUAL ASSLT OF ANDREA CONSTAND JANUARY 2004, A MONTH SHY OF WHEN THE STATUTE OF LIMATNS TO FILE LEGAL ACTN WOULD HAVE EXPIRED.ON MAY 24, 2016, A JUDGE PENNSYLVANIA TERMED THERE WAS ENOUGH EVINCE FOR THE SEXUAL ASSLT SE TO PROCEED WH A CRIMAL TRIAL. FOLLOWG PRETRIAL HEARGS DECEMBER, THE TRIAL WAS SCHLED TO BEG THE FOLLOWG SPRG, WH COSBY FACG A PRISON SENTENCE OF UP TO 30 YEARS OVER THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT.IN JUNE 2017, CONSTAND TOOK THE STAND TO TTIFY ABOUT HER RELATNSHIP WH COSBY AND HER VERSN OF EVENTS. SHE SAID SHE VIEWED THE OLR EDIAN AS A MENTOR AND, AS A GAY WOMAN, SHE HAD NO TERT A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. HOWEVER, DURG THE NIGHT QUTN, SHE SAID HE PROVID THREE PILLS TO HELP HER RELAX AND THEN PROCEED TO FORCE HIMSELF ON HER WHEN SHE WAS "PARALYZED" AND UNABLE TO RIST. THE FENSE UNTERED BY HIGHLIGHTG SOME OF THE NSISTENCI HER EXPLANATN AND ASKED WHY SHE NTUED TO MATA NTACT WH COSBY IF HER ACUNTS OF BEG VLATED WERE TE.ALTHOUGH TTIMONI AND CLOSG ARGUMENTS WERE LIVERED WH SIX DAYS, SOON BEME CLEAR THAT THE JURY WAS HAVG DIFFICULTY REACHG A VERDICT, AS THEY REQUTED TO REVIEW EVINCE MULTIPLE TIM. ON JUNE 17, WH THE JURY ADLOCKED ON ALL THREE UNTS FOLLOWG 52 HOURS OF LIBERATNS, THE JUDGE CLARED A MISTRIAL.AFTERWARD, COSBY'S PUBLICIST CLARED THE RULT A "TOTAL VICTORY" AND LD HIS CLIENT'S RTORED LEGACY. HOWEVER, THE PROSECUTN TEAM REJECTED THAT PICTN OF THE OUTE AND PROMISED TO BRG COSBY BACK TO TRIAL.IN JANUARY 2018, WHILE AWAG THE RETRIAL, COSBY TOOK THE STAGE AT PHILALPHIA'S LAROSE JAZZ CLUB FOR HIS FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE SCE MAY 2015. APPEARG AS PART OF A PROGRAM HONORG JAZZ MICIAN TONY WILLIAMS, COSBY TOLD STORI, JOKED ABOUT HIS DIMISHED EYIGHT AND EVEN PLAYED DMS WH A BAND, CLG TO TALK ABOUT THE SEXUAL ASSLT SE AFTERWARD. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, COSBY SUFFERED ANOTHER VASTATG LOSS WH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HIS DGHTER ENSA HAD DIED OM RENAL DISEASE AT AGE 44.RETRIALWH HIS RETRIAL SCHLED TO BEG APRIL 2018, COSBY'S TEAM UNSUCCSFULLY SOUGHT A 90-DAY LAY AFTER THE URT AGREED TO ALLOW THE TTIMONY OF FIVE WOMEN WHO, ALONG WH CONSTAND, HAD ACCED COSBY OF ASSLT. THE FENSE THEN ATTEMPTED TO REPLACE JUDGE STEVEN T. O’NEILL, WHOSE WIFE HAD DONATED TO A WOMEN'S GROUP THAT PLANNED TO RALLY ON BEHALF OF CONSTAND.THE START OF THE RETRIAL BROUGHT THE REVELATN THAT COSBY HAD PAID HIS ACCER $3.38 LN TO SETTLE THE SEXUAL ASSLT LAWSU SHE FILED 2005. IN HIS OPENG STATEMENT, PROSECUTG ATTORNEY KEV STEELE TOLD JURORS THAT CONSTAND ONLY SUED AFTER APPEARED THAT COSBY WOULD NOT FACE CHARG FOR HIS ACTNS, THOUGH THE FENSE SEIZED ON THAT TRANSACTN AS EVINCE THAT SHE WAS MOTIVATED TO SQUEEZE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE OUT OF HER FORMER MENTOR.THE DAY BEFORE CONSTAND'S SCHLED APPEARANCE, MOL JANICE DICKSON WAS AMONG THE FIVE ADDNAL WOMEN WHO TTIFIED TO COSBY'S PATTERN OF DGGG AND ASSLT. RELLG A 1982 CINT AT LAKE TAHOE, SHE SAID THE FAMED EDIAN GAVE HER A PILL FOR CRAMPS DURG DNER, AND LATER SHE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE AFTER HE CLIMBED ON HER HIS HOTEL ROOM. DICKSON SAID SHE "WANTED TO PUNCH HIM THE FACE" WHEN NONTG HIM ABOUT THE FOLLOWG DAY.COSBY'S TEAM SOUGHT TO HIGHLIGHT THE NSISTENCI CONSTAND'S ACUNT OF EVENTS, AND EVEN PRODUCED A FORMER LLEAGUE OF HERS WHO TTIFIED THAT THEY ONCE HAD A DISCSN ABOUT FALSELY ACCG RICH PEOPLE OF DISCRETNS TO EARN A PAYOUT. CONSTAND NIED HAVG ANY SUCH NVERSATN.ON APRIL 26, ONE DAY AFTER BEGNG LIBERATNS, THE JURY FOUND COSBY GUILTY ON ALL THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT. THE 80-YEAR-OLD, WHO LOOKED DOWN WHEN THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED, THEN UNLEASHED A REPORTED "EXPLETIVE-LAN RANT" AT STEELE, AFTER THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY LLED HIM A FLIGHT RISK AND ASKED FOR BAIL TO BE REVOKED.COSBY'S LEAD LAWYER SAID THEY WOULD APPEAL. "WE ARE VERY DISAPPOTED BY THE VERDICT," HE SAID. "WE DON’T BELIEVE MR. COSBY IS GUILTY OF ANYTHG."DUE TO THE VERDICT, COSBY'S NAME AND STATUE WERE REMOVED OM TELEVISN AMY'S HALL OF FAME AND THE ACTOR WAS EXPELLED OM THE AMY OF MOTN PICTUR ARTS AND SCIENC.ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2018, COSBY WAS SENTENCED TO THREE TO 10 YEARS PRISON FOR SEXUALLY ASSLTG A WOMAN PHILALPHIA 2004. JUDGE O’NEILL LLED COSBY A “SEXUALLY VLENT PREDATOR” AND CLARED, "IT IS TIME FOR JTICE. MR. COSBY, THIS HAS ALL CIRCLED BACK TO YOU. THE TIME HAS E."COSBY FILED A FORMAL APPEAL JUNE 2019, ARGUG THAT WAS IMPROPER FOR THE JUDGE TO PERM THE TTIMONY OF THE FIVE WOMEN TO BOLSTER CONSTAND'S SE. LATE THAT YEAR, HE MA HEADL FOR HIS FIRST TERVIEW SCE BEG RCERATED, DURG WHICH HE SAID HE WOULD RATHER SERVE THE FULL 10-YEAR SENTENCE THAN TO SHOW REMORSE FOR CRIM HE DIDN'T M. IN JUNE 2020, THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT AGREED ON TO HEAR THE APPEAL.IN JUNE 2021, THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED COSBY’S SEX ASSLT NVICTN. COSBY WILL BE RELEASED OM {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
- BILL COSBY'S ABILY TO 'READ' SEXUAL CU QUTNED BY LAWYER OF GAY ACCER
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- COSBY TRIAL: DEFENSE WANTED TO USE EVINCE ANDREA CONSTAND IS GAY
ACCER: COSBY ULDN'T 'READ' I WAS GAY
In a newly filed urt document, Andrea Constand's attorney wr that Bill Cosby "did not realize [she] was gay until the police told him"" emprop="scriptn * is bill cosby gay *
The legal battle between Bill Cosby and accer Andrea Constand, settled and sealed a ago, is grdg aga feral urt Philalphia, wh the two legal teams filg new motns almost latt: Constand qutned Cosby's self-scribed petence readg women's cu sexual suatns by potg out that he apparently didn't notice that Constand, a Temple Universy basketball official, was gay and datg a woman at the time they had their enunter says their enunter at his Philalphia home was nsensual; she says he dgged and sexually asslted her.
"Dpe his talent for terpretg female reactns to him, he did not realize platiff was gay until the police told him, " Constand lawyer Dolor Troiani wrote a motn filed was jt the latt legal filg and unter-filg between the two sis as Constand seeks to make the terms of their 2006 civil su settlement public and Cosby fights to keep unr wraps — even though major parts of his 900-pl-page posn the se have already been ma public and further cshed his 's team did not rpond to requts for ment, as they mostly haven't sce last fall when a total of more than 40 women began g forward publicly to acce him of beg a serial rapist episos datg back to the had nied wrongdog through his lawyers and has not been charged wh a crime, although several accers are sug him civil urt. Bill Cosby's Origal Accer Andrea Constand Calls Him a 'Narcissist' Who Missed Cu That She's Gay.
BILL COSBY'S ORIGAL ACCER ANDREA CONSTAND CALLS HIM A 'NARCISSIST' WHO MISSED CU THAT SHE'S GAY
In a newly filed urt document, Andrea Constand's attorney wr that Bill Cosby "did not realize [she] was gay until the police told him". In the filg, attorney Dolor Troiani slams Cosby as a narcissist who didn’t realize Constand (who was a relatnship wh a woman at the time of the alleged asslt) is gay. “As fendant adms his posn, spe his talent for terpretg female reactns to him, he did not realize platiff was gay until the police told him, ” she wrote.
Troiani ntends that Constand was “ambhed” by the reporter and that Constand’s Tweets were sent “durg the time perd that there was extensive publicy about gay marriage. She said she viewed the olr edian as a mentor and, as a gay woman, she had no tert a romantic relatnship.
He was Black, gay and the 'origal' kg of rock and roll.
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COSBY'S FIRST ACTG ASSIGNMENT, THE PNAGE SERI I SPY (1965-68), MA HIM THE FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO -STAR A LEADG DRAMATIC ROLE ON WORK TELEVISN, AS WELL AS THE FIRST TO EARN AN EMMY AWARD. HIS MOST SUCCSFUL WORK, THE COSBY SHOW, APPEARED ON NBC OM 1984 TO 1992 AND WAS THE HIGHT-RATED S FOR SEVERAL NSECUTIVE YEARS. COSBY’S LEGENDARY STAT WAS TARNISHED WHEN NUMERO ACCATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT SURFACED 2014. HIS TRIAL FOR THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT END WH A ADLOCKED JURY JUNE 2017, BUT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY AFTER A RETRIAL APRIL 2018.EARLY LIFECOSBY WAS BORN WILLIAM HENRY COSBY JR. ON JULY 12, 1937, PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. COSBY, THE OLST OF FOUR BOYS, GREW UP PHILALPHIA'S GERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. AT FIRST, THE COSBYS WERE ABLE TO GET BY, FANCIALLY, BUT THE FAY'S MONEY BEGAN TO SLIP WHEN COSBY'S FATHER, WILLIAM COSBY SR., BEGAN DRKG HEAVILY. AFTER HIS FATHER ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY, COSBY BEME LIKE A PARENT TO HIS BROTHERS. COSBY'S MOTHER, ANNA, WORKED CLEANG HO. HE AND HIS FAY ALSO END UP LIVG THE RICHARD ALLEN HOM, A LOW-E HOG PROJECT. AT THE AGE OF 8, COSBY SUFFERED A GREAT LOSS WHEN HIS BROTHER JAM, THE SEND OLST OF THE BOYS, DIED. WH MONEY VERY TIGHT FOR HIS FAY, COSBY STARTED SHG SHO AND WORKED AT A SUPERMARKET DURG HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS. DPE THEIR HARDSHIPS, COSBY'S MOTHER STRSED THE VALUE OF TN AND LEARNG. SHE OFTEN READ BOOKS TO BILL AND HIS BROTHERS, CLUDG THE BIBLE AND WORKS BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MARK TWA. A GIFTED STORYTELLER HIMSELF, COSBY LEARNED EARLY ON THAT HUMOR ULD BE A WAY TO MAKE IENDS AND GET WHAT HE WANTED. COSBY EXCELLED AT MAKG THGS UP. AS ONE OF HIS TEACHERS ONCE NOTED, "WILLIAM SHOULD BEE EHER A LAWYER OR AN ACTOR BEE HE LI SO WELL.'' IN SCHOOL, COSBY WAS BRIGHT BUT UNMOTIVATED. HE LIKED TO TELL STORI AND JOK TO HIS CLASSMAT MORE THAN HE LIKED TO DO HIS SCHOOLWORK. ONE OF HIS TEACHERS ENURAGED HIM TO PUT HIS PERFORMG TALENTS TO E SCHOOL PLAYS, NOT HER CLASSROOM. AT HOME, COSBY LISTENED TO A VARIETY OF RAD PROGRAMS AND STARTED IMATG SUCH EDIANS AS JERRY LEWIS. HE ALSO WATCHED SUCH TELEVISN PERFORMERS AS SID CAAR AND JACK BENNY WHENEVER HE ULD. WHILE HE WAS MORE TERTED SPORTS THAN AMICS — HE WAS ACTIVE ON HIS SCHOOL'S TRACK AND FOOTBALL TEAMS — COSBY WAS PLACED A HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUNTS AFTER SRG HIGH ON AN IQ TT. BUT COSBY FAILED TO APPLY HIMSELF AND END UP FAILG TENTH GRA TWICE. HE SWCHED TO GERMANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT THE AMIC ISSU NTUED. IN TRATN, COSBY DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL. HE WORKED SEVERAL ODD JOBS BEFORE JOG THE U.S. NAVY 1956. DURG HIS ARY SERVICE, COSBY WORKED AS A MEDIL AI ON SHIPS, SEVERAL HOSPALS AND AT OTHER FACILI. HE ALSO JOED THE NAVY'S TRACK TEAM, WHERE HE EXCELLED, PECIALLY THE HIGH JUMP EVENT. REGRETTG HIS CISN TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL, COSBY EARNED HIS HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY DIPLOMA WHILE THE SERVICE. AFTER LEAVG THE NAVY, HE WENT TO TEMPLE UNIVERSY VIA SCHOLARSHIP. WHILE AT TEMPLE, COSBY LAND A JOB AS A BARTENR AT A FFEE HOE. HE TOLD JOK THERE, AND EVENTUALLY LAND WORK FILLG FOR THE HOE EDIAN OM TIME TO TIME AT A NEARBY CLUB. COSBY ALSO PERFORMED AS A WARM-UP ACT FOR HIS 'S RAD SHOW. HE FOUND SPIRATN THE WORKS OF SUCH EDIANS AS DICK GREGORY, AN AIN AMERIN IC WHO OFTEN TALKED ABOUT RACIAL ISSU HIS ROUT. EARLY HIS REER, COSBY DISCSED RACE HIS ACT AS WELL, BUT HE EVENTUALLY DROPPED OM HIS PERFORMANC, CHOOSG TO FOC ON TELLG STORI ABOUT MORE GENERAL AND UNIVERSAL THEM.'I SPY' AND 'FAT ALBERT'NEARLY HALFWAY THROUGH HIS LLEGE REER, COSBY CID TO DROP OUT TO PURSUE A REER STAND-UP EDY. HE STARTED PERFORMG AT A PLACE GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK, AND HE TOURED EXTENSIVELY, WNG OVER FANS. IN 1963, COSBY MA HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON JOHNNY CARSON'S TONIGHT SHOW, WHICH HELPED TRODUCE HIM TO A NATNAL DIENCE. (COSBY WOULD GO ON TO APPEAR ON THE SHOW DOZENS OF TIM.) HE ALSO LAND A RERDG NTRACT AND THAT SAME YEAR RELEASED HIS FIRST EDY ALBUM, BILL COSBY IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW ... RIGHT! HE WON A GRAMMY AWARD (BT COMEDY PERFORMANCE) FOR HIS NEXT EFFORT, 1964'S I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD. FOR THE REMAR OF THE 1960S, COSBY RELEASED H ALBUM AFTER H ALBUM, WNG ANOTHER FIVE GRAMMYS. HE WOULD LATER PICK UP TWO MORE FOR HIS RERDGS FOR CHILDREN AS PART OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY TV SERI. IN 1965, COSBY ALSO HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR AIN AMERIN TV PERFORMERS WH A LEADG ROLE A TV SERI. PORTRAYG ALEXANR STT, HE STARRED WH ROBERT CULP THE PNAGE SERI I SPY. THE TWO SPI PRETEND TO BE A PROFSNAL TENNIS PLAYER (CULP) TRAVELG WH HIS ACH (COSBY). THE SHOW RAN FOR THREE YEARS, AND COSBY RECEIVED THREE NSECUTIVE EMMY AWARDS FOR HIS WORK. NOT LONG AFTER I SPY END, COSBY STARRED HIS OWN S. THE BILL COSBY SHOW RAN FOR TWO SEASONS, OM 1969 TO 1971, AND FEATURED THE EDIAN AS A GYM TEACHER AT A LOS ANGEL HIGH SCHOOL. A FORMER ASPIRG TEACHER, COSBY WENT BACK TO SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSY OF MASSACHETTS AT AMHERST. AROUND THE SAME TIME, HE APPEARED ON THE TNAL CHILDREN'S SERI THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, AND VELOPED THE ANIMATED SERI FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS, WHICH HE BASED ON MANY OF HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENC. IN 1977, COSBY RECEIVED A DOCTORATE URBAN TN OM THE UNIVERSY, HAVG WRTEN HIS DISSERTATN ON FAT ALBERT. (COSBY HAD RECEIVED THE GREE VIA NONTRADNAL METHODS, WH HIS SCREEN WORK REPORTEDLY UNTG TOWARD URSE CREDS.) ON THE BIG SCREEN, COSBY ENJOYED BOX-OFFICE SUCCS WH THE 1974 EDY UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, -STARRG SIDNEY POIER AND HARRY BELAFONTE, WH POIER DIRECTG. CONTUG TO ATTRACT BIG DIENC, HE APPEARED OPPOSE POIER TWO MORE EDY HS, LET'S DO IT AGA AND A PIECE OF THE ACTN, 1975 AND 1977, RPECTIVELY.'THE COSBY SHOW'ONCE AGA TURNG TO HIS LIFE FOR SPIRATN, COSBY BEGAN WORKG ON A NEW TELEVISN SERI. THE S FOCED ON AN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS AIN AMERIN UPLE WH FIVE CHILDREN. EACH OF THE CHILDREN'S CHARACTERS SHARED SOME TRAS OF THEIR REAL-LIFE UNTERPARTS. MARRIED SCE 1964, COSBY AND HIS REAL-LIFE WIFE, CALE, HAD FOUR DGHTERS AND ONE SON. (COSBY ORIGALLY WANTED THE SHOW TO BE ABOUT A DRIVER AND HIS PLUMBER WIFE, WH CALE JOG PRODUCERS TO PH FOR THE SHOW TO BE ABOUT A DOCTOR AND ATTORNEY.) IN 1984, THE COSBY SHOW BUTED TO FAVORABLE REVIEWS AND STRONG RATGS. WEEK AFTER WEEK, THE COSBY SHOW DREW DIENC WH S WARM HUMOR AND BELIEVABLE SUATNS. COSBY'S CHARACTER, DR. HEATHCLIFF HUXTABLE, BEME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR DADS TELEVISN HISTORY. HE ALSO SERVED AS A PARENTAL FIGURE TO HIS YOUNG -STARS, CLUDG SABRA LE BEF, LISA BO, MALLM-JAMAL WARNER, TEMPTT BLEDSOE AND KHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM, AS WELL AS RAVEN-SYMONé AND ERIKA ALEXANR, ON SET. PHYLICIA RASHAD -STARRED WH COSBY AS HIS WIFE, CLAIR. AFTER BEG THE HIGHT-RATED S ON TV FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THE SHOW FALLY END S N 1992. OVER THE SHOW'S EIGHT-SEASON N, COSBY FOUND TIME FOR OTHER PROJECTS: HE APPEARED SEVERAL FILMS, CLUDG LEONARD PART 6 (1987) AND GHOST DAD (1990). IN 1986, COSBY ACHIEVED ANOTHER REER TONE — BEG A BTSELLG THOR. HIS REFLECTNS ON PARENTG WERE CLUD THE BOOK FATHERHOOD, WHICH SOLD LNS OF PI. HIS OP ON AGG, TIME FLI (1987), ALSO ENJOYED HUGE SAL. IN ADDN, COSBY ENJOYED GREAT POPULARY AS A PCHMAN, APPEARG MERCIALS FOR SUCH PRODUCTS AS JELL-O, FOR WHICH HE HAD SERVED AS A SPOKMAN SCE 1974.AFTER THE COSBY SHOW, COSBY NTUED TO WORK TELEVISN. HE STARRED THE COSBY MYSTERI, WHICH HE PLAYED A RETIRED CRIMOLOGIST WHO SOMETIM HELPED OUT A TECTIVE IEND. THEN 1996, HE RETURNED TO SS WH COSBY, RE-TEAMG WH FORMER -STAR RASHAD. THEY WERE UNABLE TO OBTA THE SAME LEVEL OF SUCCS AS THEIR EARLIER EFFORT, BUT THEY DID ENJOY SOME POPULARY, STAYG ON THE AIR FOR FOUR YEARS.PERSONAL LOSSWHILE WORKG ON COSBY, THE EDIAN EXPERIENCED A EP PERSONAL LOSS. HIS ONLY SON, ENNIS, WAS KILLED 1997, SHOT TO ATH WHILE CHANGG A TIRE ON HIS R ON THE SI OF A CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY. AROUND THE SAME TIME, COSBY WAS UGHT UP A PATERNY SNDAL. A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED AUTUMN JACKSON CLAIMED THAT COSBY WAS HER FATHER AND TRIED TO BLACKMAIL HIM FOR $40 LN, SAYG THAT SHE WOULD GO TO THE TABLOIDS IF SHE DIDN'T GET THE MONEY. SHE WAS ARRTED AND NVICTED OF EXTORTN, RECEIVG A 26-MONTH PRISON SENTENCE. (THE NVICTN WAS LATER OVERTURNED AND THEN RESTATED.) COSBY ADMTED THAT HE HAD A BRIEF ENUNTER WH JACKSON'S MOTHER, BUT HE CLAIMED HE WAS NOT AUTUMN'S FATHER.WHILE PG WH THE DIFFICULT EPISOS, COSBY TOOK ON NEW PROFSNAL CHALLENG. HE STARTED A SERI OF CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS FEATURG A CHARACTER NAMED LTLE BILL 1997, WHICH ALSO BEME A CHILDREN'S TV PROGRAM. A EQUENT SPEAKER AT MENCEMENT CEREMONI, COSBY SHARED HIS ADVICE 1999'S CONGRATULATNS! NOW WHAT?: A BOOK FOR GRADUAT. HE TOOK A SER LOOK AT THE TN SYSTEM 2000'S AMERIN SCHOOLS: THE $100 BILLN CHALLENGE, AND PAIRED UP WH HIS DGHTER ERIKA FOR 2003'S FRIENDS OF A FEATHER: ONE OF LIFE'S LTLE FABL. AWARDS AND RETURN TO TVCOSBY HAS RECEIVED NUMERO ACLAS FOR HIS WORK, CLUDG MULTIPLE EMMY, GRAMMY, NAACP AND PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS. HE WAS ALSO HONORED WH THE 2002 PRINTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, THE 2003 BOB HOPE HUMANARIAN AWARD AND THE 2009 MARK TWA PRIZE FOR AMERIN HUMOR. IN NOVEMBER 2013, BILL COSBY RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN WH A NEW SPECIAL ON COMEDY CENTRAL, FAR FROM FISHED. DIRECTED BY ROBERT TOWNSEND, THE PRODUCTN MARKED THE EDIAN'S FIRST NCERT SPECIAL THREE S. ACCATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCTCOSBY MA HEADL 2014, NOT FOR HIS EDY, BUT HIS ALLEGED MISNDUCT. OVER THE YEARS, HE HAD FACED NUMERO ACCATNS OF SEXUAL ASSLT. COSBY DID NOT HAVE CRIMAL CHARG FILED AGAST HIM, BUT HE DID SETTLE WH ONE OF HIS ACCERS OUT OF URT 2006 AFTER SHE LNCHED A CIVIL SU. IN 2014, EDIAN HANNIBAL BURS BROUGHT NEW ATTENTN TO EARLIER ALLEGATNS BY STATG THAT COSBY "RAPED WOMEN" HIS ROUTE, ACRDG TO AFTER THIS CINT, COSBY REMAED SILENT ABOUT THE CLAIMS. MORE WOMEN SOON ME FORTH TO CLAIM THAT THE EDIAN ATTACKED THEM AS WELL, CLUDG MOL JANICE DICKSON. SHE TOLD ENTERTAMENT TONIGHT THAT COSBY GAVE HER WE AND SOME TYPE OF PILL BEFORE HE ALLEGEDLY RAPED HER. THE ACCATNS LED BOTH NBC AND NETFLIX TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WERE DROPPG PROJECTS THAT THEY HAD WH COSBY, WH NCELLATNS TO E AS WELL FOR HIS 2015 STAND-UP TOUR. COSBY DID NOT RPOND DIRECTLY TO THE CLAIMS. AFTER A NATNAL PUBLIC RAD TERVIEW WH COSBY NOVEMBER 2014, A LAWYER SAID A STATEMENT THAT THE EDIAN "WON'T DIGNIFY THE ALLEGATNS WH ANY RPONSE." THAT DECEMBER, AS MORE ACCATNS OF SEXUAL ASSLT SURFACED, COSBY SPOKE TO A REPORTER ABOUT THE NEWS VERAGE OF THE NTROVERSY SURROUNDG HIM. HE SAID THAT "I ONLY EXPECT THE BLACK MEDIA TO UPHOLD THE STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE JOURNALISM AND WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU HAVE TO GO WH A NTRAL MD," ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST.COSBY'S WIFE CALE STOOD BY THE EDIAN AS WELL, ISSUG A STATEMENT DECEMBER AS WELL WHERE SHE POSNED HER HBAND AS "KD" AND "GENERO" AND QUTNED THE MEDIA'S PUBLISHG OF ACUNTS OM WOMEN WHOSE BACKGROUNDS HADN'T BEEN VETTED. YET 2015 MORE WOMEN ME FORTH WH CHARG OF SEXUAL ASSLT, WH THERE BEG ULTIMATELY DOZENS OF OTHER ACCERS WH ALLEGATNS OF MISNDUCT. SEVERAL WOMEN, CLUDG DICKSON, ALSO FILED FAMATN LAWSUS AGAST COSBY.THEN EARLY JULY 2015, URT DOCUMENTS OM 2005 WERE ALLOWED TO BE UNSEALED BY A FERAL JUDGE AFTER AN ASSOCIATED PRS REQUT. TTIMONY OM A CIVIL SU ISSUED BY ANDREA CONSTAND REVEALED THAT COSBY HAD GOTTEN HOLD OF PRCRIPTN QUAALUS DURG THE 1970S WH THE TENTN OF GIVG THE DGS TO WOMEN BEFORE ENGAGG SEXUAL ACTIVY. DURG THE TTIMONY, DUE TO HIS ATTORNEY'S OBJECTN, COSBY DID NOT STATE WHETHER HE GAVE WOMEN THE DGS WHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE. IN LIGHT OF THE NEW RMATN, THE EDIAN DID NOT IMMEDIATELY ISSUE A PUBLIC STATEMENT. LATER THE MONTH, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED ON A RELATED POSN WHICH COSBY SPOKE OF MEETGS WH A VARIETY OF WOMEN, ADMTG TO GIVG DGS AS PART OF HIS TERACTNS AND SEXUAL PURSUS. IN LATE JULY 2015, NEW YORK MAGAZE RAN A MULTIMEDIA VER STORY THAT PHOTOGRAPHED AND DIVIDUALLY TERVIEWED 35 OF THE WOMEN WHO HAD ENUNTERS WH COSBY, SOME OF WHOM WERE THEIR TEENS AT THE TIME. THE SAYS HAVE SIAR TAILS, WH MOST OF THE WOMEN STATG THAT THEY WERE DGGED WHOUT THEIR AWARENS OR NSENT. SOME OF THE TERVIEWE ALSO REUNT BEG DIRECTLY ASSLTED. "WE MT ASK OURSELV IF THE LSON WE WANT TO TEACH OUR KIDS IS THAT, AGA, A WOMAN'S VOICE AND BODY ARE NOT VALUABLE OR PREC OR VALID," SAID MOL/ACTRS BEVERLY JOHNSON TO PEOPLE, HAVG ALSO BEEN FEATURED THE NEW YORK MAG ARTICLE. JOHNSON HAD STATED A VANY FAIR SAY THAT COSBY HAD ALSO SURREPTLY DGGED HER DURG THE DAYS OF THE COSBY SHOW. "I KNOW MY TTH, AND I HOPE FOR A SOCIETY THAT IS SENSIVE TO THE PROTECTN OF WOMEN, REGARDLS OF THE STAK."COSBY WAS TO BE POSED BY DICKSON'S TEAM RELATN TO HER FAMATN SU, BUT LATE NOVEMBER COSBY'S ATTORNEYS FILED A REQUT TO HAVE THE POSN PUT ON HOLD. THEN MID-DECEMBER, RPONSE TO A GROUP OF SEVEN WOMEN SUG HIM FOR FAMATN VIA A MASSACHETTS URT, COSBY FILED A FERAL UNTERSU STATG THAT SAID PLATIFFS ARE MAKG "MALIC, OPPORTUNISTIC, AND FALSE AND FAMATORY" CHARG. DAYS LATER, COSBY SUED JOHNSON FOR FAMATN OVER HER ALLEGATNS OF ATTEMPTED ASSLT. AS A RULT OF THE DISTURBG ACCATNS, NUMERO LLEG REVOKED HONORARY GRE AWARD TO COSBY. ADDNALLY, A STATUE OF THE EDIAN WAS REMOVED OM DISNEY’S MGM HOLLYWOOD STUDS PARK JULY 2015.ARRT AND CRIMAL TRIALALTHOUGH MORE THAN 50 WOMEN ME FORWARD WH CLAIMS THAT THE LEGENDARY EDIAN AND ACTOR HAD SEXUALLY VLATED AND/OR DGGED THEM, COSBY MANAGED TO FEND OFF THE ACCATNS. HOWEVER, ON DECEMBER 30, 2015, A WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR COSBY'S ARRT FOR THE ALLEGED DGGG AND SEXUAL ASSLT OF ANDREA CONSTAND JANUARY 2004, A MONTH SHY OF WHEN THE STATUTE OF LIMATNS TO FILE LEGAL ACTN WOULD HAVE EXPIRED.ON MAY 24, 2016, A JUDGE PENNSYLVANIA TERMED THERE WAS ENOUGH EVINCE FOR THE SEXUAL ASSLT SE TO PROCEED WH A CRIMAL TRIAL. FOLLOWG PRETRIAL HEARGS DECEMBER, THE TRIAL WAS SCHLED TO BEG THE FOLLOWG SPRG, WH COSBY FACG A PRISON SENTENCE OF UP TO 30 YEARS OVER THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT.IN JUNE 2017, CONSTAND TOOK THE STAND TO TTIFY ABOUT HER RELATNSHIP WH COSBY AND HER VERSN OF EVENTS. SHE SAID SHE VIEWED THE OLR EDIAN AS A MENTOR AND, AS A GAY WOMAN, SHE HAD NO TERT A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. HOWEVER, DURG THE NIGHT QUTN, SHE SAID HE PROVID THREE PILLS TO HELP HER RELAX AND THEN PROCEED TO FORCE HIMSELF ON HER WHEN SHE WAS "PARALYZED" AND UNABLE TO RIST. THE FENSE UNTERED BY HIGHLIGHTG SOME OF THE NSISTENCI HER EXPLANATN AND ASKED WHY SHE NTUED TO MATA NTACT WH COSBY IF HER ACUNTS OF BEG VLATED WERE TE.ALTHOUGH TTIMONI AND CLOSG ARGUMENTS WERE LIVERED WH SIX DAYS, SOON BEME CLEAR THAT THE JURY WAS HAVG DIFFICULTY REACHG A VERDICT, AS THEY REQUTED TO REVIEW EVINCE MULTIPLE TIM. ON JUNE 17, WH THE JURY ADLOCKED ON ALL THREE UNTS FOLLOWG 52 HOURS OF LIBERATNS, THE JUDGE CLARED A MISTRIAL.AFTERWARD, COSBY'S PUBLICIST CLARED THE RULT A "TOTAL VICTORY" AND LD HIS CLIENT'S RTORED LEGACY. HOWEVER, THE PROSECUTN TEAM REJECTED THAT PICTN OF THE OUTE AND PROMISED TO BRG COSBY BACK TO TRIAL.IN JANUARY 2018, WHILE AWAG THE RETRIAL, COSBY TOOK THE STAGE AT PHILALPHIA'S LAROSE JAZZ CLUB FOR HIS FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE SCE MAY 2015. APPEARG AS PART OF A PROGRAM HONORG JAZZ MICIAN TONY WILLIAMS, COSBY TOLD STORI, JOKED ABOUT HIS DIMISHED EYIGHT AND EVEN PLAYED DMS WH A BAND, CLG TO TALK ABOUT THE SEXUAL ASSLT SE AFTERWARD. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, COSBY SUFFERED ANOTHER VASTATG LOSS WH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HIS DGHTER ENSA HAD DIED OM RENAL DISEASE AT AGE 44.RETRIALWH HIS RETRIAL SCHLED TO BEG APRIL 2018, COSBY'S TEAM UNSUCCSFULLY SOUGHT A 90-DAY LAY AFTER THE URT AGREED TO ALLOW THE TTIMONY OF FIVE WOMEN WHO, ALONG WH CONSTAND, HAD ACCED COSBY OF ASSLT. THE FENSE THEN ATTEMPTED TO REPLACE JUDGE STEVEN T. O’NEILL, WHOSE WIFE HAD DONATED TO A WOMEN'S GROUP THAT PLANNED TO RALLY ON BEHALF OF CONSTAND.THE START OF THE RETRIAL BROUGHT THE REVELATN THAT COSBY HAD PAID HIS ACCER $3.38 LN TO SETTLE THE SEXUAL ASSLT LAWSU SHE FILED 2005. IN HIS OPENG STATEMENT, PROSECUTG ATTORNEY KEV STEELE TOLD JURORS THAT CONSTAND ONLY SUED AFTER APPEARED THAT COSBY WOULD NOT FACE CHARG FOR HIS ACTNS, THOUGH THE FENSE SEIZED ON THAT TRANSACTN AS EVINCE THAT SHE WAS MOTIVATED TO SQUEEZE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE OUT OF HER FORMER MENTOR.THE DAY BEFORE CONSTAND'S SCHLED APPEARANCE, MOL JANICE DICKSON WAS AMONG THE FIVE ADDNAL WOMEN WHO TTIFIED TO COSBY'S PATTERN OF DGGG AND ASSLT. RELLG A 1982 CINT AT LAKE TAHOE, SHE SAID THE FAMED EDIAN GAVE HER A PILL FOR CRAMPS DURG DNER, AND LATER SHE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE AFTER HE CLIMBED ON HER HIS HOTEL ROOM. DICKSON SAID SHE "WANTED TO PUNCH HIM THE FACE" WHEN NONTG HIM ABOUT THE FOLLOWG DAY.COSBY'S TEAM SOUGHT TO HIGHLIGHT THE NSISTENCI CONSTAND'S ACUNT OF EVENTS, AND EVEN PRODUCED A FORMER LLEAGUE OF HERS WHO TTIFIED THAT THEY ONCE HAD A DISCSN ABOUT FALSELY ACCG RICH PEOPLE OF DISCRETNS TO EARN A PAYOUT. CONSTAND NIED HAVG ANY SUCH NVERSATN.ON APRIL 26, ONE DAY AFTER BEGNG LIBERATNS, THE JURY FOUND COSBY GUILTY ON ALL THREE UNTS OF AGGRAVATED CENT ASSLT. THE 80-YEAR-OLD, WHO LOOKED DOWN WHEN THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED, THEN UNLEASHED A REPORTED "EXPLETIVE-LAN RANT" AT STEELE, AFTER THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY LLED HIM A FLIGHT RISK AND ASKED FOR BAIL TO BE REVOKED.COSBY'S LEAD LAWYER SAID THEY WOULD APPEAL. "WE ARE VERY DISAPPOTED BY THE VERDICT," HE SAID. "WE DON’T BELIEVE MR. COSBY IS GUILTY OF ANYTHG."DUE TO THE VERDICT, COSBY'S NAME AND STATUE WERE REMOVED OM TELEVISN AMY'S HALL OF FAME AND THE ACTOR WAS EXPELLED OM THE AMY OF MOTN PICTUR ARTS AND SCIENC.ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2018, COSBY WAS SENTENCED TO THREE TO 10 YEARS PRISON FOR SEXUALLY ASSLTG A WOMAN PHILALPHIA 2004. JUDGE O’NEILL LLED COSBY A “SEXUALLY VLENT PREDATOR” AND CLARED, "IT IS TIME FOR JTICE. MR. COSBY, THIS HAS ALL CIRCLED BACK TO YOU. THE TIME HAS E."COSBY FILED A FORMAL APPEAL JUNE 2019, ARGUG THAT WAS IMPROPER FOR THE JUDGE TO PERM THE TTIMONY OF THE FIVE WOMEN TO BOLSTER CONSTAND'S SE. LATE THAT YEAR, HE MA HEADL FOR HIS FIRST TERVIEW SCE BEG RCERATED, DURG WHICH HE SAID HE WOULD RATHER SERVE THE FULL 10-YEAR SENTENCE THAN TO SHOW REMORSE FOR CRIM HE DIDN'T M. IN JUNE 2020, THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT AGREED ON TO HEAR THE APPEAL.IN JUNE 2021, THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED COSBY’S SEX ASSLT NVICTN. COSBY WILL BE RELEASED OM {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
“Dpe his talent for terpretg female reactns to him, he did not realize platiff was gay until the police told him, ” lawyer Dolor Troiani wrote a motn Tuday volvg the secrecy clse unrpng their 2006 settlement. She suggted the tweets were stead about gay marriage. The accer the only sex asslt se settled by Bill Cosby is qutng his self-scribed abily to "read" people's cu sexual did not regnize that the Temple Universy employee he had beiend was gay, the woman's lawyer noted Tuday a urt filg.
"Dpe his talent for terpretg female reactns to him, he did not realize platiff was gay until the police told him, " lawyer Dolor Troiani wrote the motn. Durg his sophomore year he left Temple to enterta at the Gaslight Cafe Greenwich Village, New York Cy, where he began to tablish a tramark edic style characterized by a iendly and accsible stage persona and a relaxed, refully timed livery. Constand, 44, who says Cosby dgged and molted her 2004, told police a 2005 terview that she is gay But that she had a boyiend when she was 14 and sexual ntact wh a man when she was her late 20s.
Related: Andrea Constand's Mother Cononts Bill Cosby at TrialCosby's lawyers, acrdg to the prosecutn's filg, had argued that by not revealg to Cosby that she was gay, Constand was guilty of "nceal[ment] and ce.