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Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private
The Washington Post ^ | December 23, 2014 | Manuel Roig-Franzia, Krissah Thompson and Mary Pat Flaherty

Posted on 12/24/2014 9:56:31 PM PST by SteveH

Camille Cosby arrived in California as a striking young beauty with a dazzling smile and a keen sense for fashion. People compared her to Lena Horne. Yet, she was ill-suited for the role of Hollywood spouse.

She likes to think of herself as “real,” she has said. Hollywood didn’t seem real. It seemed like a place for preening and pretending.

Her husband soared to international celebrity as the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, appearing alongside the white actor Robert Culp in the hit show “I Spy,” which debuted in 1965. They had more money than they could have imagined.

While Camille Cosby was having babies, her husband was womanizing and becoming a regular at the Playboy Mansion, according to a recent biography by former Newsweek managing editor Mark Whitaker. (The couple’s five children — Erika, Erinn, Ennis, Evin and Ensa — all had names beginning with the letter “E”; Cosby has said it stands for “excellence.”) “Decades later, she would confess to the pain that her husband’s ‘selfish’ behavior caused her in their L.A. years, as he indulged his roving eye,” Whitaker wrote.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: billcosby; camillecosby; cosby; jackie; rape; raperape; rollingstone; sabrinarubinerdely; uofvirginia; uva; virginia; whoopigoldberg

1 posted on 12/24/2014 9:56:31 PM PST by SteveH
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To: SteveH

We can expect a similar expose of the other Bill, a serial philanderer and rapist, can’t we? One Bill Clinton? No, I guess he’s white. Or a Democrat. Untouchable in any case.


2 posted on 12/24/2014 10:03:40 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: SteveH

Cry me a river

The worst on these two pos’s is yet to come out


3 posted on 12/24/2014 10:04:10 PM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: SteveH

She’s an idiot.


4 posted on 12/24/2014 10:12:01 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: SteveH

Just another lying hypocrite. She’s known about much of the old pervert’s ways yet offers up the Big Lie about this “family man”

Everyone else is lying except these two. And she’s obviously race obsessed, the quote on Christianity reveals it. As does the “donation” to Spelman. How many whites would have benefited from that, Mrs Color Blind?


5 posted on 12/24/2014 11:44:31 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Garner, Martin x 2 & Brown . . . all hoisted by their own petards)
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To: coloradan

Both Bills have settled on sex cases, one for rape, and the other with Paula Jones.


6 posted on 12/24/2014 11:45:40 PM PST by ansel12
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To: advertising guy

She stuck with him, still sticks with him for a reason.....I think it’s a couple hundred million reasons.


7 posted on 12/25/2014 3:47:50 AM PST by Gaffer
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8 posted on 12/25/2014 3:58:13 AM PST by knarf
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To: Gaffer
She stuck with him, still sticks with him for a reason.....I think it’s a couple hundred million reasons.

They say that in Hollywood, and other Meccas of the "artsy" crowd, everything has a price.

I guess Mrs. Cosby valued her lifestyle and Cos's Cash a little higher than her self respect.

9 posted on 12/25/2014 4:29:12 AM PST by woofer
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To: SteveH

Nothing new or exalted about nice women stuck with a pig for a husband. It happens all the time. And vice versa.


10 posted on 12/25/2014 6:37:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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