Released from prison at the end of June, comedian Bill Cosby is the subject of a new civil complaint from an actress who accuses him of drugging and raping her over 30 years ago and claiming $ 125 million in damages in a New Jersey court.
The one who for years embodied the ideal father on The Cosby Show was released from prison on June 30, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sentence to a minimum of three years in prison for having sexually assaulted in 2004 Andrea Constand, a woman who worked for Temple University in Philadelphia.
This case is the only one to have been the subject of criminal proceedings, but Bill Cosby, 84, was questioned by dozens of women, including Lili Bernard, who appeared at her trial.
“A new attempt to abuse the legal process”
In her complaint, filed Thursday, the actress, who had played in the Cosby Show, assures that around August 1990, Bill Cosby had arranged to meet her at the Trump Taj Mahal hotel-casino in Atlantic City ( New Jersey), under the pretext of making him meet a producer. In the hotel suite, the actor, then an icon of American popular culture, made her drink a drink that made her unconscious, a process found in the accusations of other women against him. Lili Bernard states that when she wakes up, Bill Cosby was raping her.
Lili Bernard relied on a New Jersey law that gave victims of sexual abuse a two-year deadline, which will end next month, to file a civil lawsuit against their alleged attackers, whatever the age of the facts.
A spokesperson for Cosby responded in a statement that New Jersey prosecutors had already closed an investigation into Lili Bernard’s charges in 2015 without charging the comedian. “This is yet another attempt to abuse legal process, by opening the floodgates to people who have never presented an ounce of proof, testimony, truth and / or facts to support their claims, “said Andrew Wyatt.
