Woman testifies that Bill Cosby forced himself on her at age 14: “I was struggling to get away”
08.06.2022 - 07:27
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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”.
She told the court that Cosby had personally invited her – along with other friends and family members, including her mother – to be extras in Let’s Do It Again after meeting them at a tennis tournament. Photos of that meeting were shown in the trial – one reported to show Cosby with her arms around the woman – as well as photos of them on the film’s set months later.The woman claimed that after Cosby invited her into his private trailer on set, allegedly to help with his costume, he “immediately grabbed” her and “started kissing [her], all over [her] face, tongue down [her] throat”.
She was reportedly asked by Huth’s attorney, Nathan Goldberg, how tightly Cosby had gripped her, to which she replied, “Enough that I couldn’t get away.”It’s alleged that the woman was able to remove herself from Cosby’s grip after 30 seconds, after which she left his trailer. The woman opted not to report the incident because her time on the set of Let’s Do It Again was “a
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