That didn't stop Anita Hill...
Read this article about Jimmy Savile in the UK to understand what is going on with Cosby, IMHO.
“How BBC star Jimmy Savile allegedly got away with abusing 500 children and sex with dead bodies”
Jimmy Savile was never a handsome man. His face, even in his early days at the BBC, was all sharp edges — the hook of his nose, the jagged-tooth grin, the boggle-eyed look of eccentricity, humor and derangement. At times, he seemed almost make believe. He had platinum hair. A fat cigar perpetually hung out of his mouth. He seemed to communicate exclusively in catchphrases: “now then, now then,” “howzabout that then,” “as it ‘appens.” The kids just loved his gags.
There was always something off about Savile, who hosted the BBC’s “Jim’ll Fix it,” palled around with the royal family, reportedly spent holidays with the Thatchers and was knighted not only by Queen Elizabeth but by Pope John Paul II. But most forgave his idiosyncratic nature. He was, after all, a great man. He raised $5.2 million for a hospital in Leeds, one of the United Kingdom’s largest. He volunteered countless hours as a hospital aide, busing patients to and fro. He helped scores of young doctors get their starts.
Sure, there were rumors. Whispers that he wasn’t everything he seemed. Murmurs he was really a sexual predator and had abused dozens of children. But they never stuck. Not Jimmy Savile, people told themselves — not “fix-it Jim.”
On October 29, 2011, Savile died at his home in Leeds. “Most of all, I remember him as just a totally flamboyant, over-the-top, larger-than-life character,” radio presenter David Hamilton told the Guardian, praising his “tireless” philanthropy. “And as he was on the air, he was just the same off.”
But he wasn’t. And just how wrong that assessment was emerged this month.
Savile, according to a U.K. National Health Service investigation released Thursday, was a prolific pedophile. The health service investigation only confirmed behavior described in several earlier probes since his death. In all, Savile is believed to have abused at least 500 girls and boys, some as young as two, most between 13 and 15, as well as countless adults ranging up to 75 years old. With unfettered access to Leeds General Infirmary, the health service report said, he raped and fondled boys, girls, men and women in offices and corridors. He also allegedly committed sexual acts on dead bodies, and even told several hospital workers that he made jewelry out of one man’s glass eyeball.
As shocking as the findings are, even more shocking is the fact that Savile got away with it for so long. That realization has “shaken our country to the core,” U.K. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday. For decades, while Savile hosted show after show and glad-handed, the abuse went on. Numerous columns have asked: How? How did no one know? Why wasn’t he stopped?
The answer, according to the National Health Service, psychologists, and academics, lies in the pervasive and intimidating power of celebrity. He was so well-known that even when his behavior struck some as strange or lewd, he was allowed to carry on because he was Jimmy Savile and was raising millions. “I don’t know if he were a law unto himself, but because of his celebrity status, he sort of basically had the run of the place,” one hospital worker told investigators.
One woman recalled Savile sexually assaulting her when she was 16. Even decades later, she told investigators, she remembered it vividly. After he was done, he turned an imperial eye to her. “You won’t talk about this,” he told her. “Nobody will believe you. I’m Jimmy Savile. I can get you.” The girl said she told her mother, but she didn’t believe her. The girl never talked about it again.
This is where I am having a HUGE issue and back in the day of our founders I believe this is why we have the idea of:
Innocent until proven guilty
We have got to find a way to STOP THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION regarding “allegations” against people. It pains me to see innocent people deprived of their respect and livelihoods based on what has often been either outright false allegations.
Does anyone think this is being stirred up by those who would benefit from Bill Cosby having no voice to affect the upcoming Ferguson riots?
Co-star Robert Culp once said that Cosby "is the angriest young man I've ever met."
Cosby has long publicly pushed for education as a way of making it in life. Yet he was allegedly given a work-free Doctor of Education degree by the University of Massachusetts, with most course work waived and another work-free "desertation" on his cartoon show "The Cosby Kids" accepted by the school. UMass was among the forefront of schools drooling to give black people unearned advanced degrees as a kind of early social justice. As a grad student there I tried to read his desertation once and was told it was "restricted" and locked away.
Cosby sold the rights to his "The Cosby Show" to syndication for the then unimaginable sum of $500 million -- particularly smart since it has died quickly in reruns. He does not need money.
He lives in a mansion in western Massachusetts when he is there and flies in his private jet from Westfield Airport. When coming and going he avoids any contact with the public that made him so rich.
As to the charges against him, who knows?
I worked for a company that hired Cosby to do some commercials for us in the 90’s.
The day after we were told we started bracing ourselves for some scandal like this to break about him.
Not that we had any inside info on Cos. It’s just that our company had such an awful track record on ad campaigns.