I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007

dailybeast ^ | 2014/11/20 | Ebner

[dennisw]

I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007 The public may be waking up to the mountain of rape allegations now, but women were coming forward years ago to warn the Jell-O Man was not so sweet.

In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby raped her. After our talk—and, of course, much more research—I filed a version of the following story on my website Hollywood, Interrupted. It identified a number of women who claimed that Bill Cosby had raped them. (The story has been updated slightly to reflect the allegations of the past few weeks, including Tarshis’s choice to drop the pseudonym she had elected to use in prior years.)

In my interviews with several of the women back then, I found the tale they told disturbingly similar: All were young and impressionable, beautiful, and talented. Cosby had taken a keen interest in their careers, and had offered to mentor them or otherwise open the fabled doors to the glistening kingdom of show business, for which he was a principal emissary.

All were given spiked drinks—or drugs misrepresented as medicine—and became incapacitated, the women charged. And all allegedly awoke with the unshakable sense that something wrong had occurred.

People magazine even ran an article on the lawsuits that were settled with several of the women, but never followed up on it. And from my own experience, I can confirm that the story shook people to the core: Even more than Woody Allen, Bill Cosby was a beloved figure and civil-rights pioneer; hardened editors were horrified at the prospect of taking him down. I might as well have pitched a story about Martin Luther King, Jr. philandering with white women. The story went nowhere.

[mowowie]

I read somewhere once a few years ago that Culp was extremely bitter at Cosby because as he felt by fighting the network to get Cosby the role in I Spy that later on in life When Culps career was faltering and Cosby’s was skyrocketing that Bill completely abandoned and ignored his old friend who was instrumental in helping his climb to stardom.

Look it up yourself, you are obviously a defender of this rapist.
Good for you.

[mowowie]

But seventeen of them and counting?
See the story of the NBC guy paying off the bimbo’s?

[Mr Rogers]

I looked it up and there is no indication of animosity between the two...and I provided the evidence.

“Look it up yourself, you are obviously a defender of this rapist.”

I don’t think he raped anyone unless they were underage...and I doubt his handlers would intentionally have brought someone underage around. I think he had sex with women who were willing to stretch out on the “casting couch”, as it has been known for 100+ years.