William Henry Cosby Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and convicted sex offender. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September 2018. More than 60 women have accused him of attempted sexual assault, rape, drug-facilitated sex assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct, all of which he has denied. His album, My Brother, Whom I Slept With was number one on Spin magazine’s list of “The 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time”
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William Henry Cosby Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and convicted sex offender. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September 2018. More than 60 women have accused him of attempted sexual assault, rape, drug-facilitated sex assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct, all of which he has denied. Cosby’s reputation was tarnished during the mid-2010s when numerous women made sexual assault accusations against him, the earliest dating back to 1965. He is currently incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution – Phoenix in Pennsylvania. His album, My Brother, Whom I Slept With was number one on Spin magazine’s list of “The 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time” His son, Bill Cosby III, is also a comedian and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Colbert Report. He has also appeared in several films, including The Cosby Show, The Cosby Mysteries, and Kids Say the Darndest Things. Cosby is married to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and has four children. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters. He also has a son and two step-daughters who live in New York City and San Francisco. He was married to his third wife, Phyllis, for more than 30 years. He had three children with his fourth wife, Roxanne, who died in 2010. Cosby has a daughter with his fifth wife, Evangeline, and a son with his sixth wife, Angela, who has two children with Cosby.
Cosby also has three step-children with his second wife, Victoria, who he also has with his daughter, Angela. Cosby had one son with third wife Angela, and one step-daughter with second wife Angela. His son Bill Cosby II was born in 1992 and has two daughters with his first wife, Camilla, and another daughter with third daughter, Ava. Cosby and his wife have three children together who have been married since 2007. Cosby currently lives with his daughters in California and has a second daughter with daughter Ava, who lives in Washington, D.C. The couple have a son named Bill Jr. who was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cosby attended Philadelphia’s Central High School, a magnet school and academically rigorous college prep school, where he ran track and played baseball, football, and basketball. Cosby left Temple to pursue a career in comedy. In 1964, he released his debut album, “Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow… Right!”, the first of a series of comedy albums. In 1972, he created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids which ran until 1985, centering on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. In 1976, he earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Cosby starred in about half a dozen films, and he occasionally returned to film later in his career.
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