@Mafuzzychef if he's so innocent... then why he been being accused of this shot randomly since the 60's?
If I been catching weed charges for 50 yrs,I probably be having weed.
1965–1996 allegations[edit]
Cosby in 1969
The earliest allegation against Bill Cosby dates back to December 1965: in 2005, Kristina Ruehli
[22] came forward as
Jane Doe #12 in the
Andrea Constand case and alleged that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her at that time in his
Beverly Hills home. Further, Ruehli said she had told her boyfriend about the incident, and had told her daughter in the 1980s.
In the early 1980s, Joan Tarshis told freelance reporter John Milward about an alleged sexual assault by Cosby. Milward did not write about the allegations.
[23] In 1996,
Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Cosby. The interview was conducted for an exposé on the lives of
Playboy models, which was never published.
[23]
After the allegations resurfaced in 2014,
Wendy Williams recalled that during her radio show in 1990, she referred to sexual assault allegations against Cosby that had been published in the
National Enquirer tabloid. Williams said Cosby called her boss in the middle of the broadcast demanding that Williams be fired.
[24][25][26]
Later allegations and investigations (2000–2006)[edit]
On February 1, 2000, according to a statement provided by Detective Jose McCallion of the
New York County District Attorney's
Special Victims Bureau, Lachele Covington, who was 20 years old at the time, filed a criminal complaint against Cosby alleging that on January 28, 2000, at his Manhattan townhouse, he had tried to put her hands down his pants and then
exposed himself. Covington also alleged that Cosby grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hands down her pants. Cosby was questioned and insisted "it was not true." The
New York City Police Department (NYPD) referred her complaint to the D.A., but they declined to prosecute.
[27]
In January 2004, Andrea Constand, a former
Temple University employee, accused Cosby of drugging and fondling her; however, in February 2005,
Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania's District Attorney said there would be no charges due to insufficient credible and admissible evidence.
[28] Constand then filed a
civil claim in March 2005, with thirteen women as potential witnesses if the case went to court.
[29][30] Cosby
settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in November 2006.
[29] After learning that charges were not pursued in the Constand case, California lawyer Tamara Lucier Green, the only publicly named woman in the prior case, came forward with allegations in February 2005 that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s.
[31][32][33] Cosby's lawyer said Cosby did not know her and that the events did not happen.
[34]
In a July 2005
Philadelphia Daily News interview, Beth Ferrier, one of the anonymous "Jane Doe" witnesses in the Constand case, alleged that in 1984 Cosby had drugged her coffee and she awoke with her clothes partially removed.
[35] In 2005, Shawn Upshaw Brown, a woman with whom Cosby admitted to having an
extramarital affair in the 1970s, claimed in the
National Enquirer that Cosby drugged and raped her the last time the two were together sexually. Brown is the mother of
Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter. Jackson was convicted in 1997 of
extortion after she threatened to make the claims public in the
Globe tabloid. In 2015, Brown went into more detail with her renewed allegations in an interview.
[36]
On June 9, 2006,
Philadelphia magazine published an article by Robert Huber which gave graphic detail about Constand's allegations, and the similar stories told by Green and Ferrer about how they stated that they too were drugged and sexually assaulted. With these severe allegations against Cosby, Huber wrote: "His lawyers have gotten it pushed to the back burner, down to a simmer, and maybe it will amount to nothing, yet there is also the possibility that it will bubble up to destroy him."
[37] The article was titled
Dr. Huxtable & Mr. Hyde,
[38] in allusion to both Cosby's character
Dr. Cliff Huxtable on
The Cosby Show and to a person having two starkly distinct "
Jekyll and Hyde" personalities. This article also presented Barbara Bowman, who had come forward after having read about Constand's story, saying she could not sit in silence any longer. Details of Bowman's similar drug and sexual assault allegations were published in the magazine's November 1, 2006 issue. Bowman reported two incidents that happened around early 1986, wherein she was eighteen years old and working as an aspiring model and actress after her agent had introduced her to Cosby and he had become her good friend and mentor, saying that she escaped his attacks, returned home to Denver and Cosby thereafter subverted her career
