A lady who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 is suing the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and different corporations in New York, the place 5 different girls filed an identical lawsuit earlier this month.
Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and mannequin that yr when she claims Cosby drugged her at a restaurant in Illinois and took her again to a resort room in Chicago.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday, alleges Cosby “engaged in pressured sexual activity” together with her whereas she was incapacitated from the medicine and comes simply because the disgraced star – as soon as often known as “America’s favourite dad” – has mentioned he’s contemplating reactivating his profession.
The lawsuit comes greater than a yr after Cosby left jail after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned.
Earlier this yr, a Los Angeles jury awarded $US500,000 to a girl who mentioned Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was a young person in 1975.
Pinkerton says the alleged assault got here after she had met Cosby in New York and he promised to assist her profession.
‘Entry, isolate, sexually harass’
She says she had a job in an episode of The Cosby Present on NBC, however didn’t seem within the remaining edit.
Months after the alleged assault, Pinkerton mentioned Cosby invited her to his present at a Chicago theater, the place she claims he forcefully kissed and touched her.
“Cosby engaged in the identical or related sample of conduct along with his victims,” ​​Pinkerton’s lawsuit says, “together with expressing curiosity in advancing their careers, giving them roles on The Cosby Presentutilizing The Cosby Present and its filming areas as a way to entry, isolate, sexually harass, and sexually assault girls, utilizing medicine to incapacitate his victims, and forcibly partaking in sexual acts with them with out their consent.”
The lawsuit alleges that NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv ought to have recognized Cosby was a hazard to girls and failed to guard Pinkerton from him.
Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt mentioned on Friday night time that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged towards him and appears ahead to defending himself in court docket.”
“As we now have at all times said, and now America can see, this is not about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it is ALL ABOUT MONEY,” Wyatt wrote in an e mail to The Related Press.
“We consider that the courts, in addition to the court docket of public opinion, will observe the principles of regulation and relieve Mr. Cosby of those alleged accusations.”
Representatives of NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Friday night time. All three corporations have been concerned within the manufacturing of The Cosby Present, Pinkerton’s lawsuit mentioned.
Half a dozen complainants
The lawsuits by Pinkerton and the 5 different girls have been filed beneath New York’s one-year window for adults to file sexual abuse complaints for allegations that had fallen exterior the statute of limitations to sue.
Cosby served almost three years in jail earlier than the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, discovering that he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition concerning the encounter solely after believing he had immunity from prosecution.
The trial decide and an intermediate appeals court docket had discovered no proof of such immunity.
Seven different accusers obtained a settlement from Cosby’s insurers following the Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit they’d filed in Massachusetts.
Their lawsuit mentioned Cosby and his brokers disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.
-AAP
