Bill Cosby sued by 9 extra ladies over sexual assault claims
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ill Cosby has been sued by 9 extra women who’ve accused the disgraced former US TV star of sexual assault.
In the lawsuit filed at a Nevada federal court on Wednesday, the ladies declare they have been every drugged and assaulted between 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and at Lake Tahoe houses, dressing rooms and inns.
The lawsuit means the disgraced 85-year-old former Cosby Show star has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by greater than 60 ladies.
Although he has denied all allegations involving intercourse crimes, Cosby spent virtually three years at a state federal jail close to Philadelphia earlier than the next court docket threw out the conviction and launched him in 2021.
In the most recent lawsuit, the ladies say Cosby used his “used his enormous power, fame, and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and or their careers as a pretence to isolate and sexually assault them.”
Specifically, one of many ladies claimed Cosby took on the position as her performing mentor earlier than luring her from New York to Nevada. In a lodge room, the girl claims Cosby drugged her utilizing non-alcoholic cider earlier than she was then raped.
Earlier this yr, a Los Angeles jury awarded 500,000 {dollars} (£396,000) to a girl who alleged that Mr Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.
The Nevada lawsuit got here only some weeks after Governor Joe Lombardo signed a invoice that eradicated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse instances. Similar fits have adopted different “lookback laws” in different states.
One of the plaintiffs, Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Nevada native, had advocated for the change. She had beforehand alleged that Mr Cosby gave her spiked drinks and raped her at a Las Vegas lodge in 1989.
“For years I have fought for survivors of sexual assault and today is the first time I will be able to fight for myself,” Lotte-Lublin stated in a press release cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“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.”