Bill Cosby, NBC and the production company of The
Cosby Show
are the subject of a complaint from five women who all claim to have suffered sexual violence from the showman.
The companies are accused of "negligence" for letting the host do it or having "turned a blind eye".
They allegedly “facilitated the sexual assault,” the complaint states.
According to
Variety,
regarding four of the plaintiffs - Lili Bernard, Eden Tirl, Jewel Gittens and Jennifer Thompson - the facts date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the star was at the height of her NBC fame.
They had already sued Bill Cosby.
They report sexual assault when they were allegedly drugged or in a professional setting.
The fifth complaint comes from Cindra Ladd, a former Hollywood director, who accuses Bill Cosby of having raped her in 1969.
Limitation lifted
The five accusers turned to the New York court based on the Adult Survivors Act.
This procedure, adopted in November and for a period of one year, allows people who were already adults at the time of the facts to file a complaint without taking into account the usual limitation period.
Their complaint is a 34-page document, which, in addition to the sexual violence exposed, also reports “abuse of power”.
The actor would have used "his fame and his prestige" to establish his power "in a harmful and horrible way", as indicated by CNN.
Frivolity and money
The response from Bill Cosby's spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, is to speak of the complainants as a "parade of accusers" which had already appeared between 2014 and 2016. For him, this new approach is "frivolous".
“As we have always said, and now America can see, this is not about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, this is about MONEY.
(…) Bill Cosby continues to vehemently deny all the allegations against him and is eager to defend himself in court, ”said the spokesperson for the fallen star.
our file on bill cosby
After being sentenced in Pennsylvania in April 2018 for criminal sexual assault, Bill Cosby, who is now 85, was released.
His conviction was indeed overturned by the State Supreme Court.
He had spent almost three years in prison.
This year, he was ordered by a California jury to pay $500,000 to a woman who sued him for rape when she was a teenager.
Bill Cosby was dismissed as Andrew Wyatt requested a new trial.
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