Posted on 12/05/2014 8:08:36 AM PST by SteveH
A woman suing Bill Cosby for sexual battery attempted to sell a story about the comedian to a tabloid a decade ago and tried to extort money in exchange for her silence, Cosby’s attorney said in a court filing Thursday.
Attorney Martin Singer wrote in the filing that the lawsuit by Judy Huth and her attorney followed a failed attempt to extort $250,000 from Cosby. In the filing, Cosby seeks more than $33,000 from Huth and her attorney.
The filing comes two days after Huth sued, claiming the comedian forced her to perform a sex act in 1974 when she was 15. The incident occurred in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion after Cosby gave Huth and a 16-year-old friend alcohol, according to her lawsuit.
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Thank you for the correction. I misunderstood that.
I had to restart my computer 3 times just to be able to scroll through that entire article. It’s a bit distracting and I missed that point.
Huth tried to get money from the story twice then - once when she tried to sell it 9 years ago, and now again when she tried to extort the money from Cosby in exchange for her silence. That makes the point even more clear. If Cosby can prove that she tried to sell the story 9 years ago.
Cosby was doing two films in 1974.
“I believe he is right.”
Yes, that will be hard to overcome. They might just be looking for a settlement. How rich is Bill Cosby, anyway?
I saw one lawyer wants him to put up $100 million dollars (say it in the Dr. Evil voice!) and have a “special master” dole it out.
You think he’s got that kind of dough?
no it’s not ok in the legal sense, of course.
but i think cosby is experiencing karma right now. his past is catching up with him. i think we all deserve our karma, good, bad, or ugly. so if a guy does something very wrong and he starts getting his karma, that is ok with me in the karmic sense.
as for huth, i do not know about the current status. there might be more to the legal angle since the weakness in her case should have been known to the lawyer and so her lawyer may have some countermoves planned. if she was not upfront with her lawyer, then the lawyer might drop her. if she was upfront with her lawyer and he does not have countermoves up his sleeve, then he opens himself ethics charges at the bar level and to potential loss of his law license.
Hard to say about karma, because sometimes the bad guys seem to win in this life, and the good guys lose. Just look at Nancy Pelosi, versus Joe Wilson. Where’s the karma there?
Sometimes true justice is only before our Maker, who alone knows the whole truth.
Maybe Cosby is getting what he deserves. Or maybe he’s being shafted by more powerful players. The Lord knows.
Very good posting.
The liberal lawyers pimp is calling you names. Roflol.
Spot on. It is disappointing to see so many on this thread who are apparently unable to separate the real Cosby from his television persona.
It is inexcusable to give the man a "free pass" for his appalling behavior simply because he made some comments about black men pulling their pants up, at the same time ignoring his loudly voiced admiration for Obama and disdain for the Tea Party, etc.
All this nonsense about a "leftist conspiracy" to bring down a supposed "conservative". At last count more than twenty women have come forward with allegations. Twenty women from widely varying walks of life who have no direct connection with each other other than having been raped by the same monster.
Of course, the reputations and motivations of some of the women may be questioned. But more than twenty? The old adage applies: Where there's smoke, there's fire. In this case a veritable forest fire.
I have one question for the hypocrites on this board who are defending Cosby: how would you have responded if it was YOUR daughter? Yes, YOUR daughter who made a deeply regretted, terrible choice to get anywhere near the man and was too ashamed and intimidated and terrified to go public with rape allegations against an immensely powerful Hollywood divinity like Cosby back in a day when she would have been scorned and ignored (as indeed happened to many of the women).
Would you still be stoutly defending a sexual predator?
This has all been out there for years.
The praetorian press does everything for a reason.
I suspect that Obola has something to do with it.
” I saw one lawyer wants him to put up $100 million dollars (say it in the Dr. Evil voice!) and have a “special master” dole it out.
You think he’s got that kind of dough?”
400 million
Why the issue of did he or did he not is even discussed when Hollywood has been and always will be a cesspool of sexual perverts...and they all play that game in one form or another.
As for how would people respond if it were their daughter.....well when you swim in a cesspool and play in it’s tank you’re bound to get dirty. These happenings did not occur in full view of an audience.....they were with Cosby in some secluded place. Any bimbo who thinks going to a mans room or living quarters is a good thing they need to have their heads examined. All the more with Hollywood.
I am not defending Cosby. He probably is guilty of some of this. But this is also about a man reputedly worth 400 million. Ignore this at your peril.
It is noteworthy that a British publication, The Daily Mail, was the first newspaper to publish the accusations. Only after the story became too big to ignore, with an increasing number of accusations, did U.S. news outlets begin to cover the scandal.
In any event, the question remains as to whether or not the man is guilty of heinous crimes against women. As I earlier suggested, the sheer number of accusations from disparate alleged victims would require an unbelievable level of orchestration if it were indeed a "conspiracy" against the man.
Absolutely agree - which means that Cosby was a part of that depraved culture. Why then are so many in this forum steadfastly defending him? Do they really believe he is Dr. Huxtable?
Given that the movie “The Hangover” employed an actual convicted rapist in one Mike Tyson using the Cos wouldn’t be too much of a stretch for the producers the way I see it.
It is certainly possible that some of the women are hoping for a financial payoff. However, since the statute of limitations has long expired (except for one case where it may still be active on a technicality), it is difficult to see how that could be a motivation.
It is in my view highly unlikely that some twenty women who did not know each other spontaneously decided to go public about the same kind of traumatic assault with accounts that were frighteningly similar, revealing a cunning modus operandi.
Did you not read the news reports? Or do you agree with the Muslims that it is women themselves that are the guilty party because they entice men with their libidinous ways?
These were not prostitutes. In EVERY case the woman was either in some way drugged or he brutally forced himself upon them.
Their only fault was that of some on this forum, who apparently think that kind, fatherly Dr. Huxtable would never do such a thing.
It is called “financial terrorism”
Pay me, or I won’t go away. Happens all the time, in varying degrees.
Doesn’t matter....you play in the cesspool of Hollywood and your going to get dragged into the sludge. Most understand the risks and should be smart enough to not get pulled into the undertow.......but being smart will leave you outside their camp.
If it was my daughter, she wouldn’t be going to spend the night with Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in the first place.
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