A lady who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comic-actor, NBCUniversal and other providers Friday in New York, wherever 5 other females submitted a very similar lawsuit previously this month.
Stacey Pinkerton states she was a 21-yr-previous flight attendant and product that yr when she claims Cosby drugged her at a cafe in Illinois and took her again to a lodge area in Chicago. The lawsuit alleges Cosby “engaged in pressured sexual intercourse” with her although she was incapacitated from the medicines.
The lawsuit will come additional than a calendar year right after Cosby still left prison soon after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned. Earlier this 12 months, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who claimed Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was a teenager in 1975.
Pinkerton claims the alleged assault came after she had satisfied Cosby in New York and he promised to aid her career. She claims she experienced a part in an episode of “The Cosby Exhibit” on NBC, but did not appear in the ultimate edit.
Months just after the alleged assault, Pinkerton mentioned Cosby invited her to his display at a Chicago theater, the place she claims he forcefully kissed and touched her.
“Cosby engaged in the exact or related pattern of perform with his victims,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit says, “including expressing fascination in advancing their occupations, giving them roles on The Cosby Demonstrate, employing The Cosby Show and its filming locations as a usually means to access, isolate, sexually harass, and sexually assault women of all ages, working with drugs to incapacitate his victims, and forcibly engaging in sexual functions with them without their consent.”
The lawsuit alleges that NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Television should really have acknowledged Cosby was a risk to ladies and failed to safeguard Pinkerton from him.
Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt claimed Friday evening that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged towards him and appears to be forward to defending himself in court.”
“As we have normally said, and now The usa can see, this is not about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it’s ALL ABOUT Dollars,” Wyatt wrote in an electronic mail to The Affiliated Press. “We think that the courts, as effectively as the courtroom of public view, will follow the policies of law and reduce Mr. Cosby of these alleged accusations.”
Representatives of NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Television did not right away respond to requests for remark Friday night. All three providers were associated in the output of “The Cosby Clearly show,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit reported.
The lawsuits by Pinkerton and the 5 other gals were filed underneath New York’s just one-year window for grown ups to file sexual abuse complaints for allegations that had fallen exterior the statute of limitations to sue.
Cosby served nearly 3 yrs in jail in advance of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, discovering that he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition about the face only right after believing he had immunity from prosecution. The trial choose and an intermediate appeals court docket had identified no evidence of this sort of immunity.
7 other accusers been given a settlement from Cosby’s insurers in the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction around a defamation lawsuit they had submitted in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit claimed that Cosby and his agents disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.
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