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Bill Cosby lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean to appeal $500,000 verdict
Manhattan-based lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, who is counsel to American stand-up comedian, Bill Cosby, has said they would appeal the verdict of a civil jury that found his client guilty of having sexually abused Judy Huth when she was 16 years old in 1975. “Yesterday actor and comedian Bill Cosby was awarded an astonishing victory by…
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Bill Cosby: Comedian found guilty for sex assault of teen at Playboy Mansion
American stand-up comedian and actor, William Henry Cosby Jr., popularly known as Bill Cosby, has been found guilty for sexually assaulting a woman, Judy Huth, at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager. Ms Huth is now 64 and Cosby, 84. The jury in the civil case against him awarded Ms Huth…
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I never admitted drugging women for sex – Bill Cosby
Popular American comedian and actor, Bill Cosby has issued another statement following his release from prison. TheNewsGuru recalls that Cosby was released days ago after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction, ruling that the comedian could not be prosecuted for the same crime again. Cosby, took to his Twitter page denying both…
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Court overturns Bill Cosby sexual assault conviction, orders release
Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday overturned Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and ordered that he be released from prison immediately. The decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court came after Cosby had served more than two years of a potential three- to 10-year sentence, following his 2018 conviction. The court found that a previous prosecutor had…
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Actor Janice Dickinson’s defamation suit against Bill Cosby settled
Actor Janice Dickinson reached a settlement with Bill Cosby”s insurance company on Thursday, ending a civil lawsuit she filed against the comedian after his representatives disputed her account that he had raped her. Dickinson, a successful model in the 1970s and 1980s who also appeared in several television shows, is one of dozens of women…
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Bill Cosby lectures fellow inmates on parenting, drug Use
American stand-up comedian and actor, Bill Cosby 81, is dishing out parenting, drug use and life advice to his fellow inmates. Cosby was convicted in 2018 to three to 10 years in a state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, as well as aggravated indecent assault. His rep, Andrew Wyatt, says the famous…
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BREAKING: Bill Cosby found guilty on all charges in sexual assault trial
Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the “Cosby Show” star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges. Cosby…
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A female protester goes nude, rushes Bill Cosby at sexual assault trial
On the first day of disgraced comedian Bill Cosby’s retrial on indecent sexual assault charges Monday, a topless female protester with names of his accusers scrawled on her body charged the 80-year-old as he walked into Montgomery County Courthouse. The female protester was shouting, “Women’s Lives Matter,” which was also written on her body, the…
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Bill Cosby goes on trial for sexual assault
For decades Bill Cosby was “America’s Dad,” loved by millions for his role as an affable doctor and benevolent father on long-running hit TV sitcom “The Cosby Show.” On Monday the disgraced 79-year-old goes on trial for aggravated indecent assault, accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a former university basketball director at his home in…