Invoice Cosby: One other girl recordsdata intercourse abuse lawsuit

A lady who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and different firms Friday in New York, the place 5 different ladies filed an identical lawsuit earlier this month.

Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and mannequin that 12 months when she claims Cosby drugged her at a restaurant in Illinois and took her again to a lodge room in Chicago. The lawsuit alleges Cosby “engaged in pressured sexual activity” along with her whereas she was incapacitated from the medicine.

The lawsuit comes greater than a 12 months after Cosby left jail after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned. Earlier this 12 months, a Los Angeles jury awarded US$500,000 to a girl who stated Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was a youngster in 1975.

Pinkerton says the alleged assault got here after she had met Cosby in New York and he promised to assist her profession. She says she had a job in an episode of “The Cosby Present” on NBC, however didn’t seem within the remaining edit.

Months after the alleged assault, Pinkerton stated Cosby invited her to his present at a Chicago theater, the place she claims he forcefully kissed and touched her.

“Cosby engaged in the identical or comparable sample of conduct along with his victims,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit says, “together with expressing curiosity in advancing their careers, giving them roles on The Cosby Present, utilizing The Cosby Present and its filming places as a method to entry, isolate, sexually harass, and sexually assault ladies, utilizing medicine to incapacitate his victims, and forcibly partaking in sexual acts with them with out their consent.”

The lawsuit alleges that NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv ought to have identified Cosby was a hazard to ladies and failed to guard Pinkerton from him.

Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt stated Friday evening that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged in opposition to him and appears ahead to defending himself in court docket.”

“As we’ve at all times acknowledged, and now America can see, this is not about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it is ALL ABOUT MONEY,” Wyatt wrote in an electronic mail to The Related Press. “We consider that the courts, in addition to the court docket of public opinion, will observe the foundations of regulation and relieve Mr. Cosby of those alleged accusations.”

Representatives of NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Friday evening. All three firms have been concerned within the manufacturing of “The Cosby Present,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit stated.

The lawsuits by Pinkerton and the 5 different ladies have been filed underneath New York’s one-year window for adults to file sexual abuse complaints for allegations that had fallen outdoors the statute of limitations to sue.

Cosby served practically three years in jail earlier than the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, discovering that he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition concerning the encounter solely after believing he had immunity from prosecution. The trial choose and an intermediate appeals court docket had discovered no proof of such immunity.

Seven different accusers obtained a settlement from Cosby’s insurers within the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit they’d filed in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit stated that Cosby and his brokers disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.