Posted on 11/22/2014 5:01:06 AM PST by 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.
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Pretty easy to foretell how this goes....
The statute of limitations has long expired on all of this, so...........
He keeps his mouth shut......and he lowers his profile.
adopted DAUGHTER.
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Now you’ve done it, she never knew she was adopted.
He’s a good standup - a genius, in fact. I’m not surprised he’s also a showbiz low life.
WOW that is news to me...the one I thought of was black or semi black. Thanks.
But as a step dad to two girls I find it just as revolting as “normal” incest.
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I agree but Woody gets one when he’s around young trusting girls.
It was typical JJ hypocrisy that ran quite deep.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/18/operation-tush-jesse-jackson-accused-in-new-sex-scandal/
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s baby mama, and his wife, had more competition according to a lawsuit filed against him.
Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor, is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson, Sr. in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee (Tommy R. Bennett) facilitate the relationship.
On one occasion, “Mr. Bennett was instructed by Rev. Jackson to escort Ms. Holder to Rev. Jackson’s hotel room at the Hilton at Chicago O’Hare airport,” the suit says.
The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, says Bennett was director of the clinic but that when he objected to Holder taking a majority of the cases and charging too much to poor clients, he was replaced. He says Jackson then gave control of the clinic to Holder.
I’ve been hearing stories about Bill Cosby for what seems like forever. There was a girl in my dorm at college who said that her older brother had been Bill Cosby’s roommate at Temple. He said that Cosby drove him crazy because the class clown act never quit. You absolutely could not have a serious conversation with Cosby. That’s not normal, but it is also the one thing about these stories which doesn’t ring true. Some of the women claimed that he was a father figure to them but I don’t think that Cosby was capable of being a father figure to anyone, not unless he learned to pretend from playing the role on TV.
More info to provide you a bit of context: Renita Chaney Hill was 15 years old when the four year "relationship" started. Cosby flew her to meet with him in various cities and kept in touch with her parents, asking them about her grades in school.
Cosby ducks and covers while Clinton is still running around loose.
Too bad the civil rights people can’t have some people with credibility running things. Is Tamara Holder a wife of someone related to Eric Holder, or just a co incidence in last name?...
More drama in those troublemakers lives than I can keep up with....
She was more than old enough to realize what was going on. Unless her parents were total idiots, they knew what was going on. Pretty girls do not fly around the country to meet with actors in their hotel at night because the actor wants to ‘mentor’ them.
YGBSM! Folks might try reading about the Rat Pack to get an idea of what was considered normal sexual mores in Hollywood 30-40 years ago. Even now...would YOU allow a pretty daughter to fly across the country and meet with an actor in his hotel room at night, alone?
No biological relationship but certainly fellow comrades of DemoKKKrat party/communist party.
That's not entirely true. That book was ghostwritten by a writer named Ralph Schoenstein whose name never appeared on the book. At one point, Schoenstein wrote for National Lampoon, and was the prototype for the character "Boon" in the Animal House movie.
Which states in the U.S. have an age of consent at 15 years old? How many of those states consider administration of controlled substances without a prescription to be legal?
lol...that group never ceases to amaze me.
Not that relevant to me. I honestly thought he was dead.
I thought about Lisa Bonet from this recent round of allegations. She’d fit the description of victims and she left that show pretty early on and there were hints of not having a great relationship with Bill Cosby.
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