A girl who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and different firms Friday in New York, the place 5 different girls filed a identical lawsuit previous this month.
Stacey Pinkerton says she used to be a 21-year-old flight attendant and style that 12 months when she claims Cosby drugged her at a cafe in Illinois and took her again to a lodge room in Chicago. The lawsuit alleges Cosby “engaged in pressured sexual sex” along with her whilst she used to be incapacitated from the medication.
The lawsuit comes greater than a 12 months after Cosby left jail after his 2018 sexual attack conviction in Pennsylvania used to be overturned. Previous this 12 months, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a girl who stated Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she used to be a teen in 1975.
Pinkerton says the alleged attack got here after she had met Cosby in New York and he promised to lend a hand her profession. She says she had a job in an episode of “The Cosby Display” on NBC, however didn’t seem within the ultimate edit.
Months after the alleged attack, Pinkerton stated Cosby invited her to his display at a Chicago theater, the place she claims he forcefully kissed and touched her.
“Cosby engaged in the similar or identical development of behavior together with his sufferers,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit says, “together with expressing hobby in advancing their careers, giving them roles on The Cosby Display, the usage of The Cosby Display and its filming places as a method to get right of entry to, isolate, sexually harass, and sexually attack girls, the usage of medication to incapacitate his sufferers, and forcibly attractive in sexual acts with them with out their consent.”
The lawsuit alleges that NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv will have to have recognized Cosby used to be a threat to ladies and failed to offer protection to Pinkerton from him.
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Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt stated Friday evening that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged in opposition to him and appears ahead to protecting himself in court docket.”
“As we have now all the time mentioned, and now The united states can see, this isn’t about justice for sufferers of alleged sexual attack, it’s ALL ABOUT MONEY,” Wyatt wrote in an electronic mail to The Related Press. “We consider that the courts, in addition to the court docket of public opinion, will observe the principles of legislation and relieve Mr. Cosby of those alleged accusations.”
Representatives of NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv didn’t in an instant reply to requests for remark Friday evening. All 3 firms had been concerned within the manufacturing of “The Cosby Display,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit stated.
The complaints through Pinkerton and the 5 different girls had been filed beneath New York’s one-year window for adults to report sexual abuse proceedings for allegations that had fallen out of doors the statute of obstacles to sue.
Cosby served just about 3 years in jail ahead of the Pennsylvania Best Courtroom overturned his conviction, discovering that he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition in regards to the come upon best after believing he had immunity from prosecution. The trial pass judgement on and an intermediate appeals court docket had discovered no proof of such immunity.
Seven different accusers gained a agreement from Cosby’s insurers within the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit that they had filed in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit stated that Cosby and his brokers disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.