Some of these young women were 16 years old.
A man who once worked closely with beleaguered comedian Bill Cosby has come forward to detail how he once helped the star funnel thousands of dollars to a virtual harem of young women he kept during The Cosby Show’s 8-season run.
Frank Scotti, 90, told the Daily News on Sunday that he spent years as NBC’s ‘fixer’ for Cosby—as a conduit through whom the actor sent lady pals funds and as a guard at Cosby’s dressing room door when those women visited.
‘He had everybody fooled,’ said Scotti, who says he eventually walked away from the star because of how he treated women.
NBC employee speaks: A former NBC employee has come forward claiming he helped Bill Cosby funnel women to many women in the 1980s and 1900s. Despite rumors of protests, Bill Cosby’s Florida show went off without a hint of trouble on Friday evening (pictured)
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NBC employee speaks: A former NBC employee has come forward claiming he helped Bill Cosby funnel women to many women in the 1980s and 1900s. Despite rumors of protests, Bill Cosby’s Florida show went off without a hint of trouble on Friday evening (pictured)
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NBC employee speaks: A former NBC employee has come forward claiming he helped Bill Cosby funnel women to many women in the 1980s and 1900s. Despite rumors of protests, Bill Cosby’s Florida show went off without a hint of trouble on Friday evening (pictured)
The NBC veteran told the New York Daily News, in a story published Sunday, that Cosby had a rotating lineup of young women brought to his Brooklyn dressing room by a complicit modeling agency.
Scotti said the Manhattan agency’s owner would lead the girls there and leave once Cosby picked his chosen lady.
‘She knew exactly what was going to go on,’ Scotti told the News. ‘Then he’d tell me, ‘Stand outside the door and don’t let anyone in.’ Now you put that together and figure (out) why.’
According to Scotti, some of the girls were as young as 16.
Scotti claims Cosby would put women he especially liked up in apartments and give them up to $2,000 per month.
After decades, Scotti’s even saved receipts from money orders he says he gave those women for Cosby.
One of those women, Shawn Thompson, had a daughter named Autumn Jackson who would claim Cosby was her father.
In some states, 16 is the age of consent. The trend has been to raise the age. I don’t know what it was when & where (NY) the Cosby Show filmed.