Five women are suing disgraced actor Bill Cosby for acts of sexual abuse — including an alleged incident in his “The Cosby Show” dressing room — which happened as they attem…
Lili Bernard, who had a minor role on"The Cosby Show," said Cosby drugged and raped her on two occasions.Eden Tirl said Cosby locked her in his dressing room, touched her breasts and pressed his penis into her back.Jennifer Thompson Thompson said Cosby forced her to rub his penis in his home when she was only 18.Cindra Ladd said Cosby raped her while she was blacked out from a pill he gave her.
Cosby allegedly “touched her breasts with her consent, forcibly pressed his penis into Ms. Tirl’s back without her consent, and forcibly kissed her neck without her consent, and then whispered, ‘This is all we were going to do. Make love. This is making love.'” Thompson, who was just 17 years old when she first met Cosby in a meeting arranged by a modeling agent, said he forced her to touch his penis and masturbate him in his Manhattan home after she turned 18.
The women are able to bring the lawsuit forward now due to New York’s recently enacted Adult Survivors Act, which suspends the statute of limitations for one year, allowing adult victims of sex assault to bring their abusers to court.
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