It’s horrible.
What is amazing to me also is that people knew. There were lawyers who settled at least one case out of court, settled because there were other victims ready to testify. So people knew, but he was worth too much money to them for them to be willing to do anything to stop him.
Never been a fan since these reports came out ...
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/16/news/mn-13121
Cosby Testifies About Secret Payments
Court: Comedian says he gave $100,000 to a woman who claims to be his daughter and her mother.
July 16, 1997
JOHN J. GOLDMAN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
NEW YORK — Bill Cosby testified Tuesday that he made secret payments over the years to the woman who claims to be his daughter and who prosecutors charge tried to extort $40 million from him.
The flow of money stopped only after Autumn Jackson approached CBS and his sponsors, threatening to tell a tabloid newspaper she was his illegitimate child, Cosby said.
“It is the end of what I am paying for . . . I feel it is irreversible,” Cosby testified, recalling his feelings as he instructed his lawyer to tell Shawn Upshaw, Jackson’s mother, of the demand.
Cosby said he had a brief affair with Upshaw in Las Vegas in the early 1970s, and over the years, he gave her a total of $100,000.
“Who instituted the affair?” Cosby was asked.
“I did,” he replied.
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Drugging women and serial rapist is not the definition of a dirty old man.