9 more women sue Bill Cosby alleging sexual assaults : NPR

9 extra girls are accusing Invoice Cosby of sexual assault in a brand new lawsuit, shortly after the state dropped its statute of limitations on such circumstances.

The lawsuit, filed in Nevada federal court docket on Wednesday, alleges that the 85-year-old actor and comic “used his monumental energy, fame, and status” to isolate and assault them. The ladies say that Cosby drugged and assaulted them throughout encounters that occurred between 1979 and 1992 in properties, dressing rooms and resorts throughout Nevada.

The lawsuit comes simply two weeks after Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a invoice eliminating the two-year deadline for adults to sue their alleged perpetrators for damages from sexual abuse. Cosby faces different sexual assault lawsuits in California, New York and New Jersey, states which have authorised related “lookback legal guidelines.”

Within the Nevada lawsuit, the plaintiffs additionally allege that Cosby claimed curiosity in serving to them or their careers as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them.

Amongst them is former mannequin and actuality TV star Janice Dickinson, who testified towards Cosby in his 2018 legal trial in Pennsylvania to show that the comic’s alleged 2004 assault of Andrea Constand wasn’t an remoted case. In accordance with the lately filed lawsuit, Dickinson was allegedly raped by Cosby at a lodge in Lake Tahoe after taking a capsule Cosby gave her to take care of her menstrual ache.

Cosby spent practically three years in state jail for drugging and sexually assaulting Constand, a former worker of the ladies’s basketball workforce at Cosby’s alma mater, Temple College, earlier than his conviction was overturned and he was launched in 2021. Final 12 months, Cosby was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages to a girl who mentioned he sexually assaulted her on the Playboy Mansion when she was 16.

Over time, greater than 60 girls have accused Cosby of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. He continues to disclaim all allegations.

Cosby publicist Andrew Wyatt blasted the so-called lookback legal guidelines in a press release shared with The Related Press on Wednesday.

“These judges and lawmakers are persistently permitting these civil fits to flood their dockets — figuring out that these girls will not be preventing for victims — however for his or her dependancy to large quantities of media consideration and greed,” Wyatt mentioned. “From at the present time ahead, we is not going to proceed to permit these girls to parade varied accounts of an alleged allegation towards Mr. Cosby anymore with out vetting them within the court docket of public opinion and within the courtroom.”

NPR has reached out to Wyatt for remark.

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