A girl who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually abused her in 1986 sued comedian-actor NBCUniversal and different firms on Friday in New York, the place 5 different girls filed an identical lawsuit earlier this month.
Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and mannequin that yr when she claims Cosby drugged her at an Illinois restaurant and took her again to a Chicago resort room. The lawsuit alleges that Cosby “engaged in compelled sexual activity” together with her whereas she was incapacitated by the medicine.
The lawsuit comes greater than a yr after Cosby left jail after his 2018 sexual assault conviction was overturned in Pennsylvania. Earlier this yr, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a lady who stated Cosby sexually assaulted her on the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teen.
Pinkerton says the alleged assault got here after she met Cosby in New York and he promised to assist her together with her profession. She says she had a task in an episode of “The Cosby Present” on NBC however didn’t seem within the closing solid.
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 has engaged in the identical or comparable sample of habits together with his victims,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit states, “together with expressing curiosity within the development of their careers, being assigned roles on The Cosby Present, and utilizing The Cosby Present and its filming places.” as a method of entry, isolating, sexually harassing and sexually assaulting girls, utilizing medicine to incapacitate his victims, and violently partaking in sexual exercise 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 girls and failed to guard Pinkerton from him.
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Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt stated Friday night time that Cosby “stays vehemently denying all allegations made in opposition to him and appears ahead to defending himself in court docket.”
“As we have at all times stated, and now America can see, this isn’t about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it is ALL about MONEY,” Wyatt wrote in an electronic mail to The Related Press. “We consider that the courts, in addition to the court docket of public opinion, will observe the rule of legislation and clear Mr. Cosby of those alleged allegations.”
Representatives from NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Friday night time. All three firms had been concerned within the manufacturing of The Cosby Present, Pinkerton’s lawsuit stated.
Pinkerton and the 5 different girls’s lawsuits had been filed beneath New York’s year-long grownup window to file sexual abuse complaints over allegations that had been past the statute of limitations on them.
Cosby served almost three years in jail earlier than the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, noting that he made incriminating testimony in an announcement concerning the encounter solely after he believed he had immunity from prosecution. The trial choose and an intermediate appeals court docket had discovered no proof of such immunity.
Seven different accusers obtained a settlement from Cosby’s insurers after being convicted in Pennsylvania of a defamation lawsuit they filed in Massachusetts. Her lawsuit stated that Cosby and his brokers slandered her by dismissing her allegations of abuse.
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