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Attorney​-to-the-stars​ Tom Mesereau laid into legal adversary Gloria Allred on Thursday during ​testimony in ​Bill Cosby‘s sex assault retrial, repeatedly questioning a witness about Allred’s suggested $100 million fund for the comedian’s accusers. “If [Allred] puts this $100 million fund together, she gets 30 to 40 percent of it, correct?” Mesereau asked accuser Janice Baker-Kinney, who says she was raped by Cosby in Reno in 1982. “I don’t know what her percentage would be, you would have to ask her,” the 60-year-old California stage manager responded. Allred, who represents a number of Cosby accusers​ ​—​ ​including three of the women...

More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women's movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when a Philadelphia magazine reporter at a Hannibal Buress show uploaded a clip of the comedian talking about Bill Cosby: "He gets on TV, 'Pull your pants up, black people ... I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.' Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches ... I guess I want to just at least make it weird for...