Bill Cosby has been accused by numerous women of rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct. The dates of the alleged incidents have spanned from 1965 to 2008 in ten U.S. states and in one Canadian province. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault at retrial on April 26, 2018 and on September 25, 2018, he was sentenced to three to ten years in state prison and fined USD 25,000 plus the cost of the prosecution, USD 43,611.
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Bill Cosby has been accused by numerous women of rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct. Assault allegations against Cosby became more public after a stand-up routine by comedian Hannibal Buress became popular in October 2014. The dates of the alleged incidents have spanned from 1965 to 2008 in ten U.S. states and in one Canadian province. Cosby has maintained his innocence and repeatedly denied the allegations made against him. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault at retrial on April 26, 2018 and on September 25, 2018, he was sentenced to three to ten years in state prison and fined USD 25,000 plus the cost of the prosecution, USD 43,611. In July 2015, some court records were unsealed and released to the public from Andrea Constand’s 2005 civil suit against Cosby. In his testimony, Cosby admitted to casual sex involving recreational use of the sedative-hypnotic methaqualone with a series of young women, and he acknowledged that his dispensing the prescription drug was illegal. In December 2015, three Class II felony charges were filed against Cosby in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, based on allegations by Constand concerning incidents in January 2004. In January 2004, a former Temple University employee accused Cosby of drugging and fondling her and trying to put his hands down her pants. On February 1, 2000, according to Detective Jose McCallion of the New York City Special Victims Bureau, Lachele Covington, who was 20 years old at the time, filed a criminal complaint against Cosby alleging that he had tried to put her hands down his pants and then exposed himself.
On June 25, 2019, Cosby appealed the verdict and the verdict was subsequently upheld and granted an appeal by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. After the allegations resurfaced in 2014, Wendy Williams recalled that during her radio show in 1990, she referred to sexual assault claims against Cosby that had been published in the National Enquirer tabloid. Williams said Cosby called her boss in the middle of the broadcast demanding that she be fired. In 1996, Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. The interview was conducted for an exposé on the lives of Playboy models, which was never published. In the early 1980s, Joan Tarshis told freelance reporter John Milward about an alleged sexual assault by Cosby. She would publicly speak about it in 2005, when she came forward in the Andrea Constanding case as Jane Doe #12. As of November 2015, eight related civil suits were active against him and Gloria Allred is representing 33 of the accused victims. In May 2015, he said, ‘I have been in this business 52 years and I’ve never seen anything like this. Reality is a situation and I can’t speak.\’ He has declined to publicly discuss the accusations in the past, although he told Florida Today that ‘people shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos’
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