Nine women accuse US actor Bill Cosby of sexual assault and he is suing in Nevada, three weeks after the US state ended its statute of limitations on civil sexual assault claims.
In documents filed in court on Wednesday, June 14, they accused the actor of using Her “immense power, notoriety and prestige” And isolating and assaulting them, according to NBC television.
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The television said that these attacks took place between 1979 and 1992 in homes, hotels or inns in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno in the (western) state of Nevada.
As of the end of May, in Nevada, an adult sexual assault victim had only two years after the fact to file a complaint. This law was amended to remove this limitation on May 31.
One of the plaintiffs, Lise-Lotte Lublin, publicly accused Bill Cosby of drugging her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 1989. After two drinks Cosby served her, she began to feel dizzy. She said he told her to sit between his legs and began to comb her hair, after which she passed out.
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Bill Cosby, 85, was a popular actor in the United States during the 1980s, and at the time was dubbed “America’s Father” for his role as a father in “The Cosby Show,” a hit TV series that aired from 1984 to 1992.
In this series, which he created, he interpreted with humor the role of the head of a middle-class black family who applies innovative educational principles at a time when this society still suffers from discrimination against him on screen.
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In recent years, dozens of women, many of them young models or actresses, have accused the actor of sexual assault. They present him as a fastidious predator, having made them drink alcohol and sleeping pills to achieve his ends.
However, the statute of limitations expired in all cases except for one case, as Bill Cosby was criminally convicted in 2018 and imprisoned, before the conviction was overturned in 2021 for technical reasons. However, he was found liable last year in a civil suit.
A spokesperson for the actor, Andrew White, has consistently dismissed the accusations, accusing these women of being payers “Their addiction to media attention and through their greed.”.
