Nine women have filed a lawsuit in Nevada accusing comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the latest in a long string of misconduct allegations against the once-beloved entertainer.
The alleged assaults took place between 1979 and 1992 at various locations in Nevada, including Cosby’s backstage dressing room and his Las Vegas hotel suite, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in federal court. from Nevada.
The complaint comes just weeks after the state enacted a “look back” law, eliminating a two-year window for victims of sexual assault to file civil suits, following the lead of several other states.
More than 60 women have leveled decades-old accusations against Cosby, once known as “America’s Father” for his role in the 1980s television comedy “The Cosby Show.”
Now 85, Cosby was the first celebrity to be convicted in the #MeToo era, when a Pennsylvania jury found him guilty in 2018 of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, an employee of Temple University, the same college Cosby attended in Philadelphia in 2004.
He spent three years in a Pennsylvania prison before the state’s Supreme Court threw out his case in 2021, ruling he shouldn’t have faced charges after striking a non-prosecution agreement with a previous district attorney years earlier.
In a statement, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt criticized the “look back” laws and said his accusers “are not fighting for victims – but for his addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed.”
The Nevada lawsuit accuses Cosby of drugging each victim with booze or pills before assaulting them, a pattern that matches allegations by other women, including Constand.
Cosby also faces other legal actions. A former Playboy model sued him this month, alleging that he assaulted her in 1969. The plaintiff is taking advantage of a California law that has suspended the statute of limitations on such actions.
Lili Bernard, one of the plaintiffs in Nevada, separately sued Cosby in New Jersey for an alleged assault in 1990 under a similar law.
Last year, a California jury found that Cosby sexually assaulted teenager Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 and ordered him to pay her $500,000.
Edited by Jonathan Oatis
Source: CNN Brasil
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