A former Playboy centerfold model who says she was drugged and raped more than five decades ago by Bill Cosby has filed a lawsuit against the actor under a new California law that temporarily lifts the statute of limitation on civil sexual-assault cases.
While that effort was underway, there was a parallel lobbying campaign to lift restrictions on civil cases. Activists chose to target New York state and California because they have a concentration of four industries with high levels of sex-assault allegations: music, film, fashion and theater.
In Valentino’s case, she says she had a chance encounter with Cosby at a Melrose Avenue hot spot, Café Figaro. Cosby spotted her crying over the death of her son, she says. He offered to pay for her and a friend who was dining with her to take a steam bath at a Finnish spa. He sent a car for them when they finished their treatments and they were whisked to a Sunset Strip steakhouse for dinner, according to the lawsuit.
When they finished, Valentino’s suit says, Cosby drove them himself to an office, ostensibly so they could see memorabilia from “I Spy,” the show in which Cosby broke ground as the first African American lead actor in an American television series. While there, Valentino alleges, both she and her friend passed out. Valentino says she awoke and saw Cosby approaching her friend.
She eventually left Los Angeles and moved to New Orleans, where she is something of a cult figure among in-the-known patrons of a French Quarter bar, the Bombay Club, because a topless painting of her hangs in the men’s bathroom. Eventually, she left New Orleans and moved to the Southwest, becoming a registered nurse and recently
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