Rape allegations mount against Bill Cosby #3

[Donjeta]

Once you've sold your soul to the devil you're stuck... If she left him now she'd have to admit a lot of her life was based on lies.

http://news.yahoo.com/unearthed--1970s-bill-cosby-on-drugs-and-downers-162629333.html

Back in 1971, the once-beloved comedian recorded a Grammy Award-winning album for children called “Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs,” in which he warns them about the kinds of depressants he allegedly used to rape dozens of women.

 

[Slebby]

Maybe it's like the battered wife - you forgive him once, you forgive him again, and again. After you've forgiven 20 punches, why not forgive the 21st? Or maybe a form of boiling frog syndrome?


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[mister happy]

Dang, ol' Bill really was obsessed with Spanish Fly. Here he is on Larry King, getting all excited about it (start video at 2:50):

[video=youtube;gBT2aVbphcE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBT2aVbphcE[/video]

 

[Inthedetails]

For a guy in show business, he sure doesn't know when to leave the stage.

GO AWAY!!

 

[mister happy]

For a guy in show business, he sure doesn't know when to leave the stage.

GO AWAY!!

You know, lots of folks think Cosby should go live the quiet life on a luxurious island with his loving wife and vast wealth. But I don't think that would be easy for him because he has a huge narcissistic ego! The Great Cosby needs to remain relevant, which will be difficult to do now. Going from beloved icon to pariah requires a huge ego adjustment. Bill may even break into his old stash of Quaaludes to ease the transition, and knock his own self out.

 

[Donjeta]

At this point, Cosby’s biography is toxic as well: According to The Hollywood Reporter, a rep for Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman says he’s asked the publisher of Cosby: His Life And Times to stop using glowing statements from his clients in future editions of book and in promotional materials. (Released last September, Mark Whitaker’s book has been criticized for glossing over the sexual assault allegations against Cosby, leading its author to issue an apology in November.) Seinfeld’s blurb, which is on the back cover of the current edition, read:

“I know certain religions forbid idol worship. If anyone ever told me I had to stop idolizing Bill Cosby, I would say, ‘Sorry, but I’m out of this religion.’ So if you want to join the Religion of Cosby, as I did back in 1966, Mark Whitaker’s wonderful new book would be our Bible.”

http://www.avclub.com/article/no-one-wants-be-associated-bill-cosbys-biography-e-222707

 

[wfgodot]

Daily Mail:

Cosby lectured children on danger of drugs and downers during Grammy Award-winning album

⁍ Comedian recorded 'Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs' in 1971
⁍ The opening track is entitled Introduction — Downers and Uppers
⁍ The song ends with the moral that everyone should 'say no to pills'
⁍ Record won the 1972 Grammy for the Best Recording for Children

story & pics at link above

(Remember this one?)

 

[wendiesan]

For a guy in show business, he sure doesn't know when to leave the stage.

GO AWAY!!

Plus, for sure he's not leaving on a high note!

 

[bluesneakers]

It would be outrageous if Constand was held personally responsible for a court reporting service's decision. If this is supposed to be a clever tactic from Cosby's legal team, I think it misfired and could even backfire. Crazy stuff. You know, I can hardly look at Cosby anymore. His mug has become so damn ugly.. like the blob or something..

Perfect.

 

[KEVINinTO]

Bill Cosby shows his spots...

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/22/bill-cosby-reveals-himself-to-be-atrue-scoundrel

 

[Donjeta]

The California Supreme Court without comment Wednesday rejected Cosby's petition to review earlier rulings in the suit filed by Judy Huth, which Cosby's lawyers argued were based on procedural errors.

A deposition scheduled for last month has been on hold pending Cosby's petition. With that out of the way, Huth's attorney, Gloria Allred, said Wednesday that she would seek to question Cosby "as soon as possible within the next 30 days."

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/bi...-deposition-after-he-loses-california-n396861

Let's see if he thinks it's funny now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...sby-bio-won-future-editions-article-1.2301332

No revisions or future editions are planned for a disparaged Bill Cosby biography, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Earlier Wednesday, Simon & Schuster told the AP that because of "recent events" it had pulled blurbs from Billy Crystal, Mary Tyler Moore and other celebrities from dedicated web pages on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com and other retailers. Moore's quote had read: "If I was America's 'sweetheart' — turning the world on with a smile — then Bill Cosby was and still is our 'best man.'" Crystal had called the book "A revealing, honest look at my favorite comedian."

...Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman’s reps confirmed that the comedians requested their comments be disassociated. “We were unaware that those quotes were still in circulation, and are asking the publisher to refrain from their future use,” Tom Keaney, who represents them both, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/22/bill-cosby-biography-celebrity-blurbs-pulled

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...lawyer-remains-chair-temple-trustees-32630591

Bill Cosby, once the very public pride of Temple University, parted ways with the school last year amid allegations that he had drugged and sexually assaulted women. Now that his own words show behavior that was at least unsavory, his lawyer is feeling heat for continuing to serve as the chairman of the university's board of trustees.

In deposition testimony taken a decade ago and made public this month, Cosby acknowledged giving quaaludes to women with whom he wanted to have sex — adding evidence that his lawyer, Patrick O'Connor, knew that Cosby had behaved in a way that could reflect badly on the university.

The president of the university's faculty union is calling for O'Connor, currently chairman of the trustees, to step down, but university officials are standing behind O'Connor.

http://fortune.com/2015/07/22/bill-cosby-lawyer-patrick-oconnor-temple/?xid=timehp-category

The disclosures have set off a firestorm at Temple — and raised new questions about his dual roles as both a university trustee and Cosby lawyer. “I was surprised like everybody else about the extent of admission by Cosby [about] all the women and his sexual adventures, to put it mildly,” said Arthur Hochner, an associate professor of human resource management at Temple’s business school and president of the full-time faculty union. “But what I was most concerned about was that the person who is the chairman of the board of trustees of Temple was his lawyer. Here is a case brought by a former Temple employee alleging that Cosby molested her.”

Additionally, faculty are raising questions about Temple’s public statements — or lack thereof. “This has been in the news for months and there’s just been silence. Most of the faculty have not seen the forthright statement about the kind of behavior Cosby’s been accused of that we’d like to see,” says history professor David Watt.

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/12/08/temple-university-board-trustees-fails-gender-equality/
(Older article)

Temple University Board of Trustees Fails Miserably in Gender Equality

So it’s understandable that O’Connor was a bit gruff when we got him on the phone the other day.

“I’m tired of this ****!” he yelled into the phone from his office in Conshohocken within 30 seconds of taking our call. “This is freaking ridiculous. This is pathetic journalism.” And later, “What are you, an imbecile?”

Well, considering what an old-boys' club the Temple board is, it's not hard to imagine that the trustees approached the accusations of the women with the same doubt or shoulder-shrugging or "not-Bill-Cosby!"ing exhibited by most of America for the better part of a decade — and more recently by Cosby-defending celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg and Jill Scott.

Of the 14 major public and private colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area that we examined, Temple's board has the lowest percentage of female trustees, at nine percent, with just three women among the board of 35. That's also the lowest number of women on any individual board.

Temple University Board Chairman Patrick O’Connor did not violate any board policies in his defense of fellow trustee Bill Cosby in a sexual assault lawsuit filed by a former Temple employee, the university said in a statement early Tuesday evening.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/...by-posed-no-conflict.html#8llGwrhjtm30VEzc.99

Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/...es-fails-gender-equality/#iLLEjk2rlQkKPKWg.99

With extraordinary chutzpah, Cosby's lawyers argued this summer that release of this material "would be terribly embarrassing." You bet. But that's no reason to keep testimony under wraps. Courts ought to protect the public from potentially dangerous people or products, not allow the wealthy to buy secrecy.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...-deposition-2005-editorials-debates/30514383/

Don Cheadle uses some strong language in this story:
http://www.bet.com/news/celebrities/2015/07/22/don-cheadle-to-bill-cosby-you-re-a-f-n-predator.html

"I worked with the dude for five minutes and I always kind of feel like you can tell how a person is based on how they treat the 'least among you,' or the lesser among you," he said. "That's really to me how a person is, and he treated the extras [on set] like s**t. He treated the people around him that were in an assistance position — he didn't treat them well. I don't shine on people who are like, 'Yeah, I treat all the leads cool and then I yell at the guy who's getting me coffee.' You should be really, really nice to that guy. That, to me, told me who he was."

 

[Donjeta]

More quotes from the depo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...bb3594-2fd0-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html

His strictures delve into matters as delicate as whether to have intercourse with one of his accusers — he doesn’t, he says, because intercourse makes women form emotional attachments.

“The act of the penile entrance is something that I feel the woman will succumb to more of a romance and more of a feeling, not love, but it’s deeper than a playful situation.”

Cosby portrays his relationships with most of the women as mere sexual encounters rather than love affairs. In one instance, he says, “I didn’t ask her to stay all night and she didn’t ask if she could stay all night. . . . I don’t think there was any spirit in what had happened of wanting to stay all night.”

Yeah that could be kind of awkward after a rape.

The questioning in the Constand case put Cosby in the same room with his accuser. He watched as Constand cried while testifying. Asked by Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani, what he was thinking at that moment, he says: “I think Andrea is a liar and I know she’s a liar because I was there.” He suggests she times her tears to coincide with her testimony about “the touching.”

He denies knowing a “Jane Doe” accuser — one of 13 supporting Constand’s case — who said she tried to leave a party at Cosby’s home after he allegedly tried to fondle her. But an assistant of the comedian’s warns he will be “angry and never help her career.”

He also disputes the claims of another Jane Doe, who says Cosby insisted that she take Quaaludes before she could come into the Atlantic City penthouse where he was staying. The same woman says he paid her gym membership after suggesting she lose weight.

Cosby says he got prescription Quaaludes in the 1970s from Leroy Amar, a Los Angeles doctor who is now dead, ostensibly to treat a bad back.

At another point, he describes how he feels “that Andrea has a glow about our sexual moment.”

Yet, they never have intercourse, he testifies, because “Andrea I don’t want to fall in love with me.”

Because he has a magical organ and every time it enters the woman is in luuuurrve

What Cosby wants from Constand is to feel “trusted,” he testifies. He wants that from all the women who had come forward to accuse him, he says.

“Do you feel that you are a good person?” Constand’s lawyer asks.

His answer: “Yes.”

ETA: not sure if this is the same person but there was a Leroy Amar, MD, who was restricted from performing surgery in California and Maryland, convicted of income tax evasion and his licence to practice medicine in New York was suspended in 1995.

 

[Donjeta]

Public divided over Smithsonian display of Bill Cosby's art
More than two dozen observers have called on the Smithsonian by email this month to dismantle the exhibit, citing rape allegations against Cosby. Meanwhile, visitors at the exhibit itself have left almost all positive messages in 74 pages of a comment book, praising the artwork despite Cosby's troubles.
http://news.yahoo.com/public-divided-over-smithsonian-display-bill-cosbys-art-110411317.html


http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephanopoulos-grills-cosby-lawyer-all-of-these-women-are-liars/

Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos grilled Monique Pressley, a new attorney for comedian Bill Cosby, on the dozens of rape allegations against the actor Wednesday morning.

According to the New York Times, Pressley’s appearance is part of a new PR push but Cosby’s team, which senses he’s losing the battle in ye olde court of public opinion.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephanopoulos-grills-cosby-lawyer-all-of-these-women-are-liars/

Bill Cosby’s legal team pressed forward on Wednesday with a vigorous public defense of the entertainer, arguing that while Mr. Cosby acknowledged embarrassing personal details in a legal deposition 10 years ago, he admitted to no crime, a fact they say has been lost in the recent wave of media coverage.

“There has been a good deal of confusion, and perhaps a better word would be misrepresentation, regarding the deposition testimony which has been filtering out in excerpt form,” a lawyer for Mr. Cosby, Monique Pressley, said in a phone interview. “There is no criminal conduct here. Nothing within the deposition moves the ball forward for those people accusing Mr. Cosby of criminal activity.

Well actually I think he did admit to criminal activity... isn't it a crime to distribute prescription medicines for recreational purposes to people they weren't prescribed to?

She also said that while Mr. Cosby had admitted to having extramarital affairs, these were a private matter.

“I don’t understand why that’s news,” she said. “A man having an affair or two or 20, even extramarital affairs, to me is not a news item. It’s history.”

Yeah extramarital affairs may be a private matter but rape is a felony...Anyway, Dr. Cosby must have understood that as a celebrity moralist his private philandering might be of interest to the press at some point.'

On “Good Morning America,” Ms. Pressley was asked by the host George Stephanopoulos, “All of these women, more than two dozen women, all of these women are liars?”

“I’m not making conclusions,” Ms. Pressley responded, “and you know that I can’t, about whether someone is lying or not. What I am saying is that Mr. Cosby has denied the accusations that have been lodged thus far. The sheer volume, or number of people, who are saying a particular thing does not make it true.”

She said she could not speak to how Mr. Cosby reacted to the recent publication of the deposition, nor would she say whether Mr. Cosby would make any public statements. The world was already hearing his point of view, she insisted. “When his lawyers speak, he speaks,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/b...eam-begins-public-pushback.html?ref=arts&_r=1



Former Bill Cosby chauffeur not aware of comedian's activities

He chauffeured Cosby when he was in Nevada in the late 1960's and 1970's.

Cosby would be picked up at the airport with his wife on the weekend, she would stay until Monday, and then the chauffeur said once his wife was on an outbound flight, the parade of inbound young women would begin

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They were excited to be there for a screen test.

The following morning we'd pick them up to take them back for their departing flights, and we would notice right away, at least I did, handling these girls, that the next morning they were very depressed, very quiet, couldn't hardly get a conversation out of them at all, and you didn't dare ask them how their screen test went," they chauffeur explained. "I felt very sorry for some of these young ladies when they left."

He also said that the previous person in his position disappeared, and that he didn't want it to happen to him.".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...erable-models-sought-report-article-1.2301474

In disturbing detail, Bill Cosby testified about the exact type of vulnerable young beauties he wanted from a New York modeling agency during his "Cosby Show" heyday.

The girls were to be from out-of-town and "financially not doing well," Cosby reportedly said in a newly revealed section of his decade-old deposition obtained by the Washington Post.

Cosby recruited the wide-eyed fashion models through agency owner Sue Charney to dine in his dressing room at "The Cosby Show."

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wh-reporter-who-asked-cosby-question-its-become-presidential-issue/
WH Reporter Who Asked Cosby Question: It’s Become ‘Presidential Issue’

“As a woman, as a daughter of a woman, as a mother of two daughters, I was floored” by Obama’s response, Ryan said. “It was strong. It was a statement.”

 

[carolbell]

The man must be sick . He probably could have had a lot of these women without the deceit. A man in his position would have women, wanting to get into show business, jumping in the sack without drugs or such. He was a nice looking man when young, power, able to help you get ahead in your career. But, neverthe less he did it, now he has to pay the piper. He has lost respect from those who believed him, people he worked with, not too sure about wife and daughters, but they have to keep silent until the end, at least publicly. I imagine there is trouble behind the closed doors. It is too bad, he has helped a lot of people, but this deceit can not be ignored.

 

[La Louve]

Camille disgusts me. She knew her husband was whoring around (at the least) and most likely suspected/knew he was drugging and raping young women. And yet she cared more for the security of her marriage than the fates of her husband's victims. To this day she still blames them.

To quote Judd Apatow : "do you like your life?", Camille? All that money and art can't cleanse your soul.

 

[mister happy]

Why is Camille bald now? A fashion statement? Health problems?

 

[La Louve]

Why is Camille bald now? A fashion statement? Health problems?

I think she wants to look more like her master and idol.

 

[carolbell]

I read where he asked her to forgive him several times in the past and she did. But I don't think that she knew about drugging and rape. She thought it was just running around on her, (which was bad enough). She probably will put up divorce papers and such when the smoke clears and all the evidence comes thru. She obviously loves the dude.

 

[Donjeta]

I wonder if they had some kind of open arrangement in which Bill gets to run around with young ladies as much as he wants and Camille can't complain as long as he keeps it out of the press to keep from embarrassing her in public.

Oprah: Were you embarrassed about this talk of an affair, Camille?

Camille: It was embarrassing in terms of it being an invasion of our private lives. That was something very personal, between the two of us.

Oprah: But you already knew about it?

Camille: I already knew, but it wasn't for the whole world to know.

Oprah: Do you think marriage is difficult? People say you have to work at it.

Camille: You do. Because you are two different people, and you have to respect that. You have to learn not to project your stuff onto the other person. You have to give the other person space to do what he or she wants to do, to not be threatened by his or her absence or achievements.

Or his philandering...

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Camille-Cosby#ixzz3gjgo2gfK

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Camille-Cosby#ixzz3gjgJs6TQ

 

[Paulas88]

Go Gloria Allred!!!