Bill Cosby Loses Civil Sex Assault Lawsuit In Los Angeles County; Faces $19-million Judgment

Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted a erstwhile waitress successful 1972 aft escorting her to 1 of his shows, a civilian assemblage successful California concluded Monday, awarding nan female $19.25 cardinal successful damages.

The verdict was nan latest move successful a bid of ineligible battles nan disgraced entertainer, now 88, has faced since allegations that he many times drugged and raped women exploded publically astir a decade ago. Since then, he served astir 3 years successful a Pennsylvania situation connected intersexual battle charges earlier nan lawsuit was overturned successful 2021.

Donna Motsinger, now 84, said successful her suit revenge successful Los Angeles County Superior Court that Cosby had fixed her vino and a pill that near her incapable to move, and that she woke up successful her location wearing thing but her underwear, according to tribunal records, and that “she knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.”

Cosby has denied nan allegations, arsenic good arsenic those brought by dozens of different women who claimed they had been drugged and raped. Coming successful nan early years of nan #MeToo movement, a wide societal media-inspired run to sanction and prosecute men accused of intersexual misconduct, Cosby’s attorneys painted him arsenic an unfair target of wide vigilantism gone awry.