Posted on 12/18/2014 3:06:52 PM PST by BunnySlippers
Several more women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by comedy legend Bill Cosby have come forward sparking a ‘definitive open investigation’ by Los Angeles Police Department, a lawyer for one of the victims has told Daily Mail online.
The new victims claim to have been subjected to sex attacks by Cosby but have asked to remain anonymous.
Significantly, in another blow for the star, it is believed a number of the latest raft of allegations fall within the statute of limitations meaning he can be prosecuted if enough evidence is found.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think it was Melater.
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“I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Jello Pudding, not one time. I have to get back to my job....”
You forget that he has already settled out of court with one of his victims, in 2006, after he drugged and raped her in 2004, and she brought forth 13 more such victims.
These women come from different cities, different states, different decades, and most are in their 50s 60s and 70s some of them the 13 Jane does of years ago, who remained Jane does until this dam broke.
This didn’t just suddenly appear out of nowhere with a couple of flaky chicks seeking publicity.
Female staffers at “The Late Show With David Letterman” are breathing a collective sigh of relief they don’t have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance. A source close to the show tells Confidenti@l that the disgraced comic had some truly bizarre backstage requests.
“He’d include as a request, before he arrived, that the young girls, interns and assistants, all had to gather around in the green room backstage and sit down and watch him eat curry,” our stunned source explains. “No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating and make us watch and want us to watch.”--snip--he’d act alarmingly gross to the women employees.
While our source adds that everyone hated the odd preshow ritual, they were asked by producers to do it because “that’s what he (Cosby) wanted.”
This has nothing to with Cain, and is not similar in anyway.
This is a huge collection of such a variety of claims from different cities and states, different women, different decades, police reports in 2000 and 2005.
A 2006 out of court settlement that had brought forth 13 more victims, most describing his same drugging/rape method, recently more females have come forward with stories, and rape and sexual assault claims, women like the Hulk’s wife who told Ferigno 5 years ago about Cosby’s heavy grope of her, we are hearing of industry rumors and cautions of being around him, going back his entire career.
We have learned of his second home being the Playboy mansion, and him being Hefner’s best friend, all while married and playing America’s wholesome father figure, and yet Hef won’t support him, and no one else in the industry seems interested in challenging the emerging image of him as a serial rapist, or defending him.
Before we knew about this, if someone had polled us on how the people who knew Bill Cosby best, and for 50 years, would react if someone started seriously accusing him of being a serial rapist who drugged his victims, we would have all predicted that his Hollywood peers and studios, would all be fighting for him, and fighting to tell the truth of the man that they knew.
That Letterman stuff is an indication he has some serious issues with women. Taken by itself it doesn’t mean he’s a serial rapist, but he’s certainly off.
Valerie Jarrett; aka the REAL 44th President of the United States (or so I have heard).
I’m not getting my hopes up, but it would be nice to see Cosby go to prison long enough to die there.
But then we learn that pretty much everyone in the MSM knew about Cosby's bad behavior for years and remained silent.
It seems like a race of alien jellyfish took over the MSM decades ago without our noticing.
(P.S.: And all this time we thought they were lizard people pretending to be humans!)
It's the culture that's the problem. The way things stand right now, where accusations are just flung around to see what sticks, I guarantee you just about any hot young thing can get herself on TMZ with the right accusation against the right celebrity. Even if proven a liar the next day -- or even the next hour -- she's got herself her 15 minutes and the celebrity's got a black mark on his record, even if completely innocent.
Again, I'm not saying these women accusing Cosby aren't telling the truth, I'm saying they have plenty of recourse in the courts, where there is discovery and testimony. Taking your case to Entertainment Tonight just cheapens the whole legal process, and certainly the whole idea of "innocent until proven guilty," which is its bedrock.
See post 46, this goes far deeper than what you are attempting to dismiss it as.
Yep, the media could have spent more time and effort on this 10 years ago, and even before that, but Cosby was too tough a target to go after, on many levels.
“”Singer, who ordinarily revels in press attention, is the famously combative and expensive Hollywood litigator who protects his celebrity clients with bulldog aggression and sends vitriolic demand letters to media outlets, threatening terrible consequences if scurrilous reports are published.
“He’s ferocious and fearless, he really is,” Singer client Sylvester Stallone was quoted as saying in an adoring May 2011 profile in The New York Times. “If you rattle his cage, you’re in a fight.” (Years ago, when I was writing a gossip column for the New York Daily News, Singer rang me up on behalf of Lindsay Lohan, a client of his entertainment law firm Lavely & Singer, and I got the clear sense that the starlet would end up owning the newspaper if I went with an item suggesting that she’d been spotted partaking of a controlled substance.)””
If you want a world where TMZ, and not a judge and jury, decides a person's fate, well, you're welcome to it!
Interesting whine, but the silence has been kept for 45 years and victims that could number far higher than the dozens.
Perhaps it is time for a little news coverage of a serial rapist and some interviews with his past victims, some of who are celebrities themselves and known to the public.
Just remember how happy we were when Juanita Broaddrick was interviewed and Clinton’s rape and molestings finally started getting some coverage from the press.
How about John Edwards?
Here are some of the details in an article from Slate of all places:
In the emotionally charged conversation about rape, few topics are more fraught than that of false allegations. Consider some responses to the news that singer-songwriter Conor Oberst had been falsely accused of sexual assault. Last December a woman writing in the comments section of the website xoJane, going by the name Joanie Faircloth, claimed Oberst raped her when she was a teenager. The charge spread across the Internet; Oberst denied it and brought a libel suit against Faircloth when she refused to retract the story. In July she completely recanted, admitting that she had made it all up to get attention. Yet instead of showing sympathy for the ordeal of the musician—one known for being supportive of feminist issues—some chided him for taking legal action to defend himself against a false, career-damaging charge. In the Daily Dot, pop culture critic Chris Ostendorf decried the lawsuit, arguing that it could intimidate real victims of rape and that it promoted the idea of men as victims of false accusations—even though that’s exactly what Oberst was. After Oberst dropped the suit, Bustle’s Caroline Pate praised his decision and referred to the saga as “a roller-coaster for both parties”—treating the false accuser and the wrongly accused as morally equivalent—and called the revelation of Oberst’s innocence “crushingly disappointing.”
The rest of the article has a lot to say.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/09/false_rape_accusations_why_must_be_pretend_they_never_happen.html
You decided to switch to this route to defend Cosby?
Cosby is not facing one or two young chicks, Cosby’s entire life of being a serial rapist is unfolding here.
Cosby has already settled on one rape/drugging accusation, one that brought forth 13 more women with concealed identities, willing to testify to his rape methods.
Do you think that Cosby lacked the wealth and power and bus load of legal sharks, to take the route of your rocker?
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