Bill Cosby's Wife Is Fighting Deposition In Defamation Lawsuit

Constand alleged that she visited the comedian at his Cheltenham home in January 2004. NBC News reported that she claimed Cosby had given her pills that he said were “herbal medication.” According to The Smoking Gun, she claimed that after she took the pills, Cosby “laid her down on a sofa and proceeded to sexually assault her. She awoke hours later to discover her clothes and undergarments in disarray,” when she said “she was greeted by a bathrobe-clad Cosby.”Constand filed a lawsuit against Cosby in Nov. 2006. Thirteen other women, 12 of whom asked to remain anonymous, are mentioned in court papers as Jane Doe witnesses. The case was settled out of court that November. Read more here.

In a 2005 interview with the National Enquirer, Upshaw claimed to have had a consensual affair with Cosby, and that the actor is the father of her daughter. She alsoclaimed that Cosby had had drugged her at some point in the ’70s. “He fixed me a drink that looked strange to me — there were several layers of color to it,” she told the Enquirer. “I didn’t want to drink it, but he kept telling me to finish it, and I did. I immediately felt very out of sorts. I knew definitely that I had been heavily drugged. Finally he took me to the bedroom and put me to bed. That’s the last I remember of the night. I woke up in the morning knowing I’d had sex during my sleep.” Read more here.

Green came forward shortly after Constand’s allegations had been reported in the media. The California lawyer, who was 57 at the time she went public, spoke with Matt Lauer on the “Today Show” about an alleged incident with Cosby in the 1970s. Green claimed that during a working lunch in Los Angeles, Cosby offered what he said was cold medicine. After about 10 minutes, she was “almost literally face down on the table of this restaurant.” Green said that after the comedian drove her home, he began taking her clothes off to put her into bed. She told Lauer that, “He had gone from helping me to groping me and kissing me and touching me and handling me and you know, taking off my clothes … I actually told him that he would have to kill me, that if he didn’t kill me and he tried to rape me, it was going to go very badly.” Read more here.

Identified as Jane Doe #5 in Constand’s lawsuit, the 56-year-old claimed that after she had ended a consensual affair with Cosby in the mid-’80s, the comedian drugged her after a performance in Denver. TheFree Republic reported in 2005 that Ferrier said Cosby gave her a coffee after the show, and that she immediately began to feel “woozy.” A few hours later, she came to with little idea of what had happened. “I woke up and I was in the back of my car all alone,” she told the Free Republic. “My clothes were a mess. My bra was undone. My top was untucked. And I’m sitting there going, ‘Oh my God. Where am I?’ What’s going on? I was so out of it. It was just awful.” Read more here.

In an interview with Hollywood Elsewhere, the music industry publicist and journalist claimed that Cosby sexually assaulted her twice in 1969 when she was 19. The former actress and Cosby were both working at Universal Studios at the time. Cosby often pushed alcohol on her, she said, and on one occasion she fell unconscious at his bungalow after having a cocktail he made. “The next thing I remember was coming to on his couch while being undressed,” Tarshis wrote. “I thought I was being clever when I told him I had an infection and he would catch it and his wife would know he had sex with someone. But he just found another orifice to use.” Read more here.

During an interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” the supermodel, 59, accused Cosby of sexually assaulting her at a meeting in 1982 to discuss a possible role for her on “The Cosby Show.” “He gave me wine and a pill. The next morning I woke up, and I wasn’t wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man,” she said. Read more here.

Serignese said she met Cosby in 1976 in Las Vegas, where he invited her to come see the show he was headlining at the Hilton. She says that after the show, she was escorted back to the green room, where she claims Cosby gave her two white pills. She told The Huffington Post, “The next memory I have was I was in a bathroom and I was kind of bending forward and he was behind me having sex with me … I was just there, thinking ‘I’m on drugs, I’m drugged.’ I felt drugged and I was being raped and it was kind of surreal. My frame of mind was that it would be over soon and I could just get out of there.” Read more here.

The actress and wife of actor Lou Ferrigno alleged that Cosby invited her to his home in 1967 where he attempted to force himself on her. “He walked over to me and grabbed me, pulls me really tight to him, kisses me on the mouth, like really, really rough. And I just took my hands and I pushed him away,” Ferrigno told KFI radio station. She said that after pushing him away, she immediately left the house. Read more here.

Hill, now 47, told CBS Pittsburgh that she met Cosby in Pittsburgh in the 1980s when she was a 15-year-old model. She was cast in Cosby’s “Picture Pages,” a series of educational TV segments, and said she was in contact with the comedian over the next four years. Hill said that she now believes Cosby drugged her on more than one occasion, insisting that she drink despite being underage. “One time, I remember just before I passed out, I remember him kissing and touching me and I remember the taste of his cigar on his breath, and I didn’t like it,” Hill told CBS Pittsburgh. “I remember another time when I woke up in my bed the next day and he was leaving, he mentioned you should probably lose a little weight. I thought that odd, how would he know that? I always thought it was odd that after I had this drink I would end up in my bed the next morning and I wouldn’t remember anything.” Hill says that she cut off contact with Cosby when she was 19. Read more here.

The 71-year-old says she was one of the anonymous Jane Does scheduled to testify in Constand’s 2005 lawsuit. Ruehli alleged to Philadelphia Magazine that in 1965, at age 22, she met Cosby while working as a secretary at a talent agency. She says Cosby invited her to a party, and when she showed up, it was only the two of them. “He proceeded to pour some bourbon,” she told Philadelphia Magazine, and she felt foggy after two drinks. She said she now believes he drugged her. According to Ruehli, her next memory was being in Cosby’s bed. “He was attempting to force me into oral sex,” she said, adding, “It never went past that. I immediately came to and was immediately very sick. I pushed myself away and ran to the bathroom and threw up.” Read more here.

The actress posted about her alleged experiences with Cosby when she was a stand-in on “The Cosby Show” on Facebook. Hurd, who has appeared on shows like “Gossip Girl” and “Law & Order: SVU” wrote: “It started innocently, lunch in his dressing room, daily, then onto weird acting exercises were he would move his hands up and down my body, (can’t believe I fell for that) I was instructed to NEVER tell anyone what we did together, (he said other actors would become jealous) and then fortunately, I dodged the ultimate bullet with him when he asked me to come to his house, take a shower so we could blow dry my hair and see what it looked like straightened. At that point my own red flags went off and I told him, “No, I’ll just come to work tomorrow with my hair straightened.” Neither Hurd nor her representatives have responded to media requests for further comment. Read more here.

The former model told the New York Daily News that she was introduced to Cosby in the ‘80s by her agent, Sue Charney — who also discovered Janice Dickinson. Allison recalls accepting a dinner invitation at Cosby’s New York brownstone where he gave her a glass of wine that made her feel “woozy and ill.” She told the Daily News that “Cosby grabbed her hand and placed it on his genitals.” Then, she recalls, “He turned me around and said, ‘Let’s get you home.’ At the door, he gave me a very hard embrace and a hard kiss.” Read more here.

The Southern California woman claims that Cosby molested her around 1974 at the Playboy Mansion, when she was just 15 years old. Huth claims that “Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him with her hand.” This is the first time a woman has publicly accused Cosby of sexually assaulting her when she was under the age of 18. The AP reported that she is now suing Cosby for damages. Read more here.

During the December 3rd press conference, a woman named Chelan said she met Cosby in Las Vegas when she was 17 years old and an aspiring model. She alleges that the comedian gave her a blue pill. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter,she said, “I laid down. He laid down next to me on the bed and began pinching my left nipple and humping my leg while he was grunting. Chelan remembers passing out, then waking up many hours later. She says Cosby gave her $1,500. Read more here.

The now 64-year-old former Playboy bunny told the NY Daily news that Cosby “attacked” her in 1979. Masten was working at the Playboy Club in Chicago and met the comedian who told her he’d take her out to dinner. She arrived at his hotel room and recalls he was smoking cigars with friends and offered her a drink. “I don’t remember anything after I drank it… The next thing I knew it was 4 o’clock in the morning and I woke up naked with this disgusting man next to me,” she told The News. “I have no idea what he gave me, but I woke up feeling very groggy and very sore. I knew I had been raped.” Read more here.

The former supermodel wrote an essay for Vanity Fair alleging that Cosby drugged her at his home in the mid-’80s. Johnson says she met the comedian when she received a call asking her to audition for a small part on “The Cosby Show.” After meeting with Cosby at his office, the comedian suggested they meet at his home so Johnson could read for the part. The first time she went over to his house, Johnson says he suggested she bring her daughter. A few days later, she says he asked her back. That time, she claims she went alone. Johnson wrote that Cosby offered her a cappuccino, insisting she drink it even after she initially declined, and she knew “by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged — and drugged good.” She claims she became “woozy” and began slurring her words. Johnson describes what happened after thusly: 
“As I felt my body go completely limp, my brain switched into automatic-survival mode. That meant making sure Cosby understood that I knew exactly what was happening at that very moment. “You are a motherfucker aren’t you?” That’s the exact question I yelled at him as he stood there holding me, expecting me to bend to his will. I rapidly called him several more “motherfuckers.” By the fifth, I could tell that I was really pissing him off. At one point he dropped his hands from my waist and just stood there looking at me like I’d lost my mind. What happened next is somewhat cloudy for me because the drug was in fuller play by that time. I recall his seething anger at my tirade and then him grabbing me by my left arm hard and yanking all 110 pounds of me down a bunch of stairs as my high heels clicked and clacked on every step. I feared my neck was going to break with the force he was using to pull me down those stairs… When we reached the front door, he pulled me outside of the brownstone and then, with his hand still tightly clenched around my arm, stood in the middle of the street waving down taxis. When one stopped, Cosby opened the door, shoved me into it and slammed the door behind me without ever saying a word.” Read more here.

The 24-year-old model and actress told The Daily Mail that she believes Cosby drugged her drink at a party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. Goins says that at the time she was 18 years old. She told The Daily Mail that Cosby had brought her a drink, and after having a few sips “everything kind of went a little foggy.” She claims that the comedian then led her to a room in the mansion, and when she later came to, Cosby was crouched over her, licking and kissing her feet. She also believes he was licking other parts of her body. “I remember waking up and feeling moist all over, like he had been licking all over me. He wasn’t on my breasts when I woke, but I could feel, you know, the saliva on them and that he’d been licking on me,” she told The Daily Mail. Read more here.

The former aspiring model says that Cosby drugged her in 1988 when she was just 21 years old. Lisa claims that she received a call from the modeling agency she worked for, indicating that Cosby wanted to meet her. After meeting with him twice, once with her mother and sister, he called her and invited her back to his room to do improv. Once she was there, she recalls Cosby fixed her a drink, told her it was going to “relax” her, and pressured her to drink it despite her resistance. “He said that this was going to relax me so that the lines would flow out a lot easier,” she said. “So I had to drink it. He made a second drink and had me drink the second drink as well.” Once she began feeling woozy, Lisa says Cosby called her over to the edge of the couch where he was seated with his legs open, and had her sit down between his legs. She says he then began to pet her hair. “The last things I remember is just feeling the strokes on my head,” Lisa told Dr. Phil in an exclusive interview. “After that, I don’t remember anything else.” Read more here.

McKee told the New York Daily News that Cosby raped her in the early 1970s. She says she had known Cosby for eight years, and was on tour with her then-boyfriend Sammy Davis Jr. at the time of the assault. McKee told the Daily News that she had extended her stay in Detroit to visit family. She claims that Cosby invited her to a party on a boat, and asked her to pick up barbecue and meet him at his hotel room beforehand. “I remember I walked in the door, and [Cosby] had a robe and cap on. He took the ribs from my hands and just grabbed me,” McKee told the Daily News. “He spun me around, pulled my panties down, and just took it. We were still standing at the door when he attacked me. It was so fast and so shocking and so unbelievable.” Read more here.

n a Wednesday Jan. 7 press conference, lawyer Gloria Allred introduced three women who have come forward for the first time to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Kirkpatrick claimed that she met Cosby in 1981, where he invited her to see his show. She alleges that he offered her a drink during a party in his dressing room, after which she blacked out and came to to find Cosby on top of her, kissing her forcefully. Kirkpatrick says that she went back to the show the following night after Cosby apologized, and that he aggressively kissed her and tried to take his advances further despite her insistence that she was not interested in a sexual encounter. She managed to leave before any further assault occurred. Read more here.

During the Jan. 7 press conference, Neal said that she met Cosby while she was working as a therapist at a health club where he was a regular client. Cosby allegedly invited her to see his show, where he offered her drinks and would not let her eat. After the show, Neal says she began feeling “disoriented and confused.” She claims that Cosby then walked her to his dressing room where he raped her. Read more here.

Also during the Jan. 7 press conference, Kacey, who did not want her real name shared, alleges that Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 1996 while she was working for Tom Illius, Cosby’s agent at the William Morris Agency. Kacey revealed that she had a friendly working relationship with Cosby and considered him a “father figure or favorite uncle.” She and her children had dined with Cosby and other colleagues before, and she took calls from him at her home. During a one-on-one meeting at the Bel Air hotel where Cosby had invited her to discuss her future career plans, Kacey claims that he insisted she take a “large white pill” to help her “relax,” after which she remembers nothing until she woke up in a bed next to Cosby, who was naked under a bathrobe. Read more here.

The former entertainment executive claims that Cosby assaulted her in 1969. She wrote about her experiences with the comedian in a blog for The Huffington Post. Ladd, who met Cosby in 1969 while she was in New York working for film producer Ray Stark, says that the assault took place at the apartment of a friend of Cosby’s. She had stopped by the apartment to meet Cosby before they went to the movies. She says that she had a headache, so Cosby offered her a “miracle cure his doctor had given him.” Ladd recalls her memories of that evening in her blog post: 
“He went into another room and came back with a capsule. I asked a couple of times what it was. Each time he reassured me, asking, “Don’t you trust me?” Of course I did. This was Bill Cosby. For more than 45 years I have tried to recall exactly what happened that night. To this day it remains a blur…What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend’s apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual. It was obvious to me that he had had sex with me. I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed.” Read more here

n a Feb. 12 press conference organized by attorney Gloria Allred, former models Linda Brown and made a statement alleging how Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1969. Cosby gave her a ticket to one of his shows, and afterward, Brown went to dinner with the comedian and his entourage. After, he invited her to his apartment. Cosby allegedly poured her a soda to drink while he made the call. The next thing Brown said she remembered was waking up naked in Cosby’s bed, unable to move or speak. Then Cosby allegedly raped her. Read more about Brown’s story here.

In the Feb. 12 press conference, Lublin, also a former model, said she met Cosby in 1989. On their third meeting, Cosby allegedly invited her to the Elvis suite of the Las Vegas Hilton to help her with her acting. Lublin said that, in the suite, Cosby fixed her a shot of alcohol, saying that it would help her relax. Lublin, who did not drink at the time, declined the offer, but Cosby insisted. He then allegedly gave her a second drink. Within minutes, Lublin said, she felt dizzy and disoriented. The last thing she said she recalls clearly is sitting on the couch with Cosby stroking her hair. Lublin believes that she was then sexually assaulted. Read more about Lublin’s story here.

One of the Jane Does from the 2005 civil case against Cosby told BuzzFeed that the comedian invited her to a dinner party at his Massachusetts home in 1978. Patricia (whose last name is withheld) said she accepted a drink, and followed Cosby’s strange demands. “Cosby wanted Patricia to pretend to be an elegant queen with oatmeal dripping all over her face,” BuzzFeed reports. Patricia recalls feeling “weird” from the drink, blacking out, and then waking up naked in Cosby’s bedroom where he was standing over her in a bathrobe. Read the rest of Patricia’s story on BuzzFeed.

Thompson told People that she first met Cosby in 1988, when she was a 17-year-old aspiring model who traveled from Maryland to NYC to meet with a casting agency. She said that she was sent to meet Bill Cosby on the set of “The Cosby Show,” and that he telephoned her parents to assure them he would look out for her if she moved to New York City. Cosby allegedly invited Thompson and her parents to his home for dinner and offered to help her with her career. Thompson soon became uncomfortable with Cosby’s constant phone calls, invitations and unwelcome physical touches. She recalls a time in Cosby’s home in 1989 following a lunch where she says he pressured her into performing a sex act. Read her story on People.

Kinney claims that Cosby assaulted her in May of 1982 while she was working as a bartender in Reno, Nevada. Cosby was a visiting performer at her place of work. She said Cosby invited her to a party at a house where he was staying, where she accepted two pills Cosby offered her. Kinney began losing her vision and eventually passed out during a game of backgammon. Her next memory is awaking on a couch with her jeans unzipped and blouse opened, and Cosby put his hand in her blouse. She awoke again the next morning naked in Cosby’s bed, who allegedly told her, “This is between me and you.” “All this time, and for many, many years, I felt this was my fault,” Kinney wrote in a statement attorney Gloria Allred’s office sent to The Huffington Post. “I took the pills from him.” Read more here

Tate claims that Cosby assaulted her in 1975 when she was working as a model in Chicago. She met Cosby through mutual friends at a nightclub. One day, she agreed to pick him up from the airport and drop him off at the Playboy mansion, where he invited her in and offered her a glass of wine. Her next memory is waking up in bed with a naked Cosby. “I knew that I was in a sexual situation,” she wrote in a statement attorney Gloria Allred’s office sent to HuffPost. “I never intended to be in that situation … but because I was barely conscious and felt drugged, I was unable to do anything to get out of it.” Read more here

Burns says she was assaulted by Cosby in 1970 when she was 20 years old and working as a model and game starter at the Sahara hotel in Las Vegas. They began spending time together, she said, and he offered to help her find acting and modeling work. One night he invited her back to his room, gave her a scotch and asked her to the bedroom. “I started feeling woozy and not in control,” she wrote in a statement sent to HuffPost from attorney Gloria Allred’s office. “He told me to sit on the edge of the bed. When I did he grabbed me by the back of my neck and stuck his erect penis down my throat. I remember my head was being pounded up and down and then he lifted me on top of him and had sex with me. When he was done I knew I had to leave the room and get home. I felt like everyone on the casino floor was staring at me and had known what happened.” Read more here