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A lawyer for Bill Cosby told jurors they need to look past years of public accusations against the actor and comedian and consider only the evidence presented by a woman who says he sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16 years old. During closing arguments at a California civil trial Tuesday that would devolve into bizarre bickering over the video game Donkey Kong, Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean said plaintiff Judy Huth and her lawyers did not come close to proving "her 50-year-old, he-said-she-said case." "Can you imagine how hard it is to defend a case when you start with the label of sexual predator?" Bonjean told the jurors, reminding them they were chosen because they promised they would be able to consider only the facts presented in court. "If we were just going to try people based on labels, then why have trials at all?" Huth’s attorney Nathan Goldberg told the jury that "my client deserves to have Mr.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAfter a two-week trial, a plaintiff’s attorney urged jurors on Wednesday to hold Bill Cosby financially responsible for sexually molesting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion 47 years ago.Nathan Goldberg argued that Cosby should be forced to pay millions of dollars for the assault on Judy Huth, who is now 64.“He hasn’t paid for what he did. He’s gotten away with it,” Goldberg argued.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA reporter for the National Enquirer testified Friday that she was angered when the publication refused to run a story about a sex assault allegation against Bill Cosby in 2005.Robin Mizrahi was called to the witness stand by Cosby’s defense lawyer in a civil trial underway in Santa Monica. Judy Huth is suing Cosby for allegedly assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, when she was 16 years old.Mizrahi interviewed Huth about the incident in 2005, but the story never ran.

Bill Cosby's been accused of sexual assault in a new civil trial brought forward by a woman who claims the actor and comedian committed the abhorrent acts at the Playboy Mansion when she was only 16 years old. Judy Huth took the witness stand Tuesday in a Santa Monica, California courtroom and testified that Cosby sexually assaulted her in the so-called «blue room» at the famed mansion. Huth, now 65, claimed Cosby tried to put his hand down her pants.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefThe trial in a civil suit against Bill Cosby got underway in a Santa Monica courthouse last week. Judy Huth is accusing the disgraced entertainer of sexually assaulting her in the 1970s when she was a teenager.I reached out to one of Huth’s attorneys, Gloria Allred, and she emailed me her response: “Ms.

Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of claims of sexual assault. An unnamed woman has testified in court that during production on the 1975 film Let’s Do It Again – at which time she was 14 years old – Bill Cosby forcibly restrained and kissed her.As Billboard reported earlier today (June 6), the woman, now aged 61, appeared in a Los Angeles County court on Friday (June 3). Her allegation came during a civil trial addressing a lawsuit by former model and comedienne Judy Huth; Huth, 61, alleges that she was sexually assaulted by Cosby in the spring of 1975, when she was 16, during an encounter at the Playboy Mansion.“I was struggling to get away,” the unnamed woman said, describing her experience with Cosby as “very shocking”.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJudy Huth cried on the witness stand Tuesday as she recounted her visit to the Playboy Mansion in 1975. Huth, now 64, is suing Bill Cosby for allegedly luring her to the mansion and molesting her in a bedroom when she was 16 years old.“I was mad,” she testified, at times wiping her eyes with a tissue. “I felt duped, fooled, let down.”Huth filed her lawsuit in 2014, under a California law that extends the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse.

Attorneys representing disgraced actor Bill Cosby used what has been nicknamed the "Donkey Kong defense" during the ongoing civil trial against the actor, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the playboy mansion in 1975.  The "Donkey Kong defense" came into play against on Monday, when Cosby’s attorney pressed a key witness over previous statements that she had played the arcade game during a visit with Cosby to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, six years before its release. The testimony came in the Los Angeles County trial over the lawsuit of Judy Huth, who also began testifying Monday, but did not yet describe her allegation that Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16. Cosby denies her allegations. Cosby was not required to attend the trial.

Bill Cosby will again be facing sex abuse allegations Wednesday as lawyers give opening statements in a civil trial that’s one of the last remaining legal claims against the comedian.

Bill Cosby’s civil trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl at the Playboy mansion nearly 50 years ago.Plaintiff Judy Huth said in a recent court filing that she now believes the assault happened in 1975 when she was 16, not in 1974 when she was 15 as she had long alleged, spurring cries of foul and a request to dismiss the case from Cosby’s attorneys, who said the change has upended their defense on the eve of trial.“It's not fair,” Cosby's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said outside court. “It's called trial by ambush.”Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan gave no indication he planned to throw out the 8-year-old case just before a trial that he is determined to have start as scheduled on Monday, and forged ahead in preparations.Cosby, 85, will not attend any of it, his attorneys said.

is wrapping up its comeback season with three all-new episodes as it ramps up the “tension between the police department and the district attorney’s office,” says showrunner Rick Eid, adding that it’s all about the characters asking themselves, “What hard choices do you make? What are you willing to live with? What are your principles?” While speaking to ET, the boss of creator Dick Wolf’s mothership series breaks down season 21’s ripped-from-the-headlines episodes, teases the upcoming finale’s mini crossover with and shares plans for what comes next.  Led by returning stars Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy and Anthony Anderson as Det.

We Need To Talk About Cosby is a four-part documentary in which comedian-turned-TV host W. Kamau Bell measures the groundbreaking accomplishments of Bill Cosby against the volume of women who accused him of sexually assaulting them after drugging them.

What does it take to get Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness to show up on time for shoots on their Emmy-winning Netflix series? “Tough love,” jokes fellow cast member Bobby Berk.

Fresh from the debut of The Kardashians on Hulu, Kim Kardashian joins our spectacular roster of talent for Deadline’s Contenders Television: Docs + Unscripted virtual event this Saturday.

Variety comes just a day after the Academy announced a 10-year ban of the “King Richard” star from the Oscars, which Lennix likened to a “little more than an extended time out for a playground bully,” calling it a “toothless penalty that lays bare the shallowness of Hollywood morals.” The Academy’s decision does not preclude Smith, who earlier resigned from the Academy, from receiving nominations or awards during that decade, but only bans him from attending them.“Smith needs to express-mail his golden trophy back to the Academy and publicly state something to the effect of: ‘Out of respect for the 94 years of honor conferred upon this award, I do not in good conscience feel worthy of being its custodian,’” Lennix wrote, adding that only the actor can “redeem” the show’s integrity. Lennix also ripped Smith’s acceptance speech later that evening, saying, “This attempt to explain his actions added to the travesty of this ethical catastrophe. In couching his acceptance speech as somehow submitting to the will of God, Smith abdicated personal accountability.”“The Blacklist” actor further went on to say that Smith’s “brutality stripped the entire evening of its prestige,” adding that his actions created an “existential crisis” for the awards show.

Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, is getting philosophical on Twitter. The singer and "Red Table Talk" co-host took to the social media platform on Saturday and shared some cryptic tweets about the "meaning of life" following her father’s resignation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The meaning of life is found in a challenge," tweeted the 21-year-old.

Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che made every Will Smith joke they’d been holding onto over the course of the past week, following the Oscar winner’s slap of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards.

expulsion or suspension by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, resigned from the organization on Friday.The move comes less than a week after he slapped award presenter Chris Rock during the Oscars 2022 global broadcast on Sunday.But does his abrupt resignation mean the Best Smacktor winner still could get slapped — even banned — by the Academy itself? If so, he would join a small group of ex-members who previously were given the official boot from the starry group.“I have directly responded to the Academy’s disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable,” Smith said in a statement.

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The settlement, which was first arranged between Activision and EEOC in September, will establish an $18 million settlement fund for any current or former ABK employee that wishes to file a claim over incidents of abuse, harassment and/or retaliation suffered while working at the video game developer. Leftover funds would be donated to charities that provide opportunities for women in game design as well as used towards the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives which must be further developed as part of the settlement.

King Richard (and hit Rock), the Academy released a statement condemning violence but did not mention anyone by name.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The next day, Monday, March 28, the organization released a further statement saying, , “The Academy condemns the actions of Mr. Smith at last night’s show.

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday turned away a request from Pennsylvania prosecutors to review a state supreme court decision that overturned Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault conviction, leaving the ruling from Pennsylvania’s high court that freed him from prison intact.

Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction, leaving the ruling from Pennsylvania's high court that freed him from prison intact. Prosecutors from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, asked the justices to wade into the case involving Cosby in November and argued the June decision from the state supreme court sets a «dangerous precedent» that is in tension with federal and state cases.

Jordan Moreau The Supreme Court has declined an appeal by Pennsylvania prosecutors in Bill Cosby’s overturned sexual assault conviction.

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that led to the release of Bill Cosby last year.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision made by Pennsylvania's highest court that led to Bill Cosby's release from prison. The high court declined prosecutors' request to hear the case and reinstate Cosby's conviction.The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year threw out Cosby's conviction, saying the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby. The Supreme Court declined to revive Bill Cosby's sexual assault case on Monday.

The Supreme Court has declined to prosecute Bill Cosby, leaving in place a ruling by Pennsylvania’s highest court to throw out his conviction and set him free from prison.

sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby, leaving in place a decision by Pennsylvania's highest court to throw out his conviction and set him free from prison.The high court declined prosecutors' request to hear the case and reinstate Cosby's conviction. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year threw out Cosby's conviction, saying the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby.As is typical, the Supreme Court did not say anything in rejecting the case.

Kanye West, 44, bared his emotions about his andKim Kardashian’s divorce in a new Instagram post on Friday March 4, where he listed all the things that divorce feels like. Of the many comparisons, Kanye first likened the heartbreak of going through divorce to “full blown COVID.” The rapper’s long list of comparisons included an array of metaphors, ranging from super specific to more generalized.

R Kelly’s new lawyer filed legal papers with the courts in New York yesterday seeking to have the musician acquitted or retried in relation to his conviction last year on charges of racketeering and sexual exploitation. Among the reasons given for acquittal or retrial are the failings of Kelly’s former legal team.At trial last September, Kelly was found guilty of building and running a criminal enterprise that allowed him to prolifically groom and abuse young people, often teenagers.

Quiet since November, The Problem with Jon Stewart is set to start up again on AppleTV+ on March 3.

Bright Road (1953), Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), and 1974’s comedy Uptown Saturday Night, which the actor and singer directed. That film, in particular, is notable for its cast, which includes Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bill Cosby.Also on the bill, Robert Altman’s 1996 jazz-noir Kansas City, in which Belafonte plays a gangster named “Seldom Seen.” The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, and Steve Buscemi.The channel is also highlighting the innovative independent works of Melvin Van Peebles, a one-man creative force who often starred in, wrote, directed, and composed his films.Of the four entries, the most notable are Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), in which a Black man outruns white police authorities (the score, by Van Peebles, was performed by Earth, Wind & Fire) and Watermelon Man (1970), a renowned social comedy starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons, in which a white bigot wakes up to find his skin has turned Black.Also on tap: The Harder They Come (1972), featuring reggae artist Jimmy Cliff as a singer who faces down corruption in Jamaica’s music industry.

A judge on Friday in Los Angeles appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s. At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan agreed with Cosby's attorney that the 84-year-old has a reasonable fear of again facing criminal charges for one or more of the many sexual assault allegations that have been publicly aired against him and has a right to avoid saying anything under oath that might lead to such charges. "It does appear he has a reasonable fear of prosecution, and if new information came out, that could cause a prosecutor to change their mind," Karlan said.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A Los Angeles judge on Friday appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s.At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan agreed with Cosby's attorney that the 84-year-old has a reasonable fear of again facing criminal charges for one or more of the many sexual assault allegations that have been publicly aired against him, and has a right to avoid saying anything under oath that might lead to such charges.“It does appear he has a reasonable fear of prosecution, and if new information came out, that could cause a prosecutor to change their mind,” Karlan said.

R Kelly has been granted a two week extension on the deadline to file an appeal against his conviction in the New York courts last year.The extension was required after he contracted COVID-19 in prison. His new lawyer Jennifer Bonjean says her client is “doing well” but that his illness is making it hard from him to discuss the case over the phone.At trial last September, Kelly was found guilty of building and running a criminal enterprise that allowed him to prolifically groom and abuse young people, often teenagers.