Donna Motsinger, now 84, said in her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County that Cosby had given her wine and a pill that left her unable to move in 1972.
Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted a former waitress in 1972 after escorting her to one of his shows, a civil jury in California concluded Monday, awarding the woman $19.25 million in damages. The verdict was the latest turn in a series of legal battles the disgraced entertainer, now 88, has faced since allegations that he repeatedly drugged and raped women exploded publicly about a decade ago.
Since then, he served about three years in a Pennsylvania prison on sexual assault charges before the case was overturned in 2021. Donna Motsinger, now 84, said in her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court that Cosby had given her wine and a pill that left her unable to move, and that she woke up in her house wearing nothing but her underwear, according to court records, and that 'she knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.' Cosby has denied the allegations, as well as those brought by dozens of other women who claimed they had been drugged and raped. Coming in the early years of the #MeToo movement, a broad social media-inspired campaign to name and prosecute men accused of sexual misconduct, Cosby's attorneys painted him as an unfair target of mass vigilantism gone awry. Motsinger sued Cosby in 2023, alleging that, at the time, she was working at a Sausalito restaurant called The Trident that was popular with celebrities, including Cosby, according to the complaint her attorneys filed Sept. 27 of that year. One night, Motsinger accepted Cosby's invitation to go with him to his show at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos. Cosby picked her up at her home in a limousine, according to her complaint, and, on the way to the venue, gave her the wine and a pill that she thought was aspirin. 'Next thing she knew, she was going in and out of consciousness while two men attending to Mr. Cosby were putting her in the limousine,' the complaint said. 'The last thing Ms. Motsinger recalls were flashes of light,' before waking up in her house in nothing but underwear. Motsinger didn't consent to Cosby's sexual contact and, having been rendered unconscious by drugging, she couldn't consent to it to begin with, according to the complaint. As a consequence of her ordeal, her complaint says she suffered lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering and emotional distress.
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