Two years after Bill Cosby’s release from SCI Phoenix correctional facility in the US state of Pennsylvania, another woman is bringing her allegations of sexual abuse against the US comedian to court. Victoria Valentino (80) has now filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles, as reported by US media. The former “Playboy” model describes an alleged assault by Cosby in 1969.
Cosby gave her and a friend pills when they went to a restaurant and drugged them. The entertainer then drove the women to his office, where he raped them, Valentino said. A new California law allows for sexual abuse lawsuits to be filed without a statute of limitations. The woman is demanding compensation in an undisclosed amount.
Valentino’s allegations contained no facts or evidence, Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt told US broadcaster CNN. There are also contradictions in the numerous claims made by the woman.
More than 60 women have accused Cosby of various kinds of sexual assault in the past few years. The entertainer always rejected the allegations.
The comedian was sentenced in 2018 to at least three and a maximum of ten years in prison for sexual assault in a criminal case. The case involved a single case from 2004. The jury found it proven that Cosby had rendered a woman helpless with pills and then sexually assaulted her.
After Cosby spent around three years in prison, the highest court in the US state of Pennsylvania surprisingly overturned his conviction in June 2021 due to a procedural error and the actor was released.
Cosby, once considered America’s model father, continued to face civil lawsuits thereafter. In June last year, a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a girl, 16, in 1975 and awarded the plaintiff $500,000. The attack took place in the home of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, known as the Playboy Mansion.
2023-06-02 05:21:00
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