A girl who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and different corporations Friday in New York, the place 5 different ladies filed an analogous 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 resort 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 $500,000 to a girl who stated Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was a young person 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 task in an episode of “The Cosby Present” on NBC, however didn’t seem within the ultimate 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 related 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 participating 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.
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Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt stated Friday night time that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged towards him and appears ahead to defending himself in courtroom.”
“As now we have all the time acknowledged, and now America can see, this isn’t about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it’s ALL ABOUT MONEY,” Wyatt wrote in an e-mail to The Related Press. “We imagine that the courts, in addition to the courtroom 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 night time. All three corporations 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 below 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 Courtroom 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 courtroom had discovered no proof of such immunity.
Seven different accusers acquired a settlement from Cosby’s insurers within the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit that they had filed in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit stated that Cosby and his brokers disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.