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 The five-page complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior
Court, charged that Cosby sexually abused plaintiff Judy Huth by
putting his hand down her pants, and then "taking her hand in
his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her
consent."
Huth claims she and a female friend met and chatted with Cosby
on the set of a movie they saw was being filmed in a suburban
Los Angeles park, and that he invited them to his tennis club
the following Saturday.
The suit also says the girls told Cosby they were 15- and
16-years-old when he asked their ages.
Arriving at the tennis club days later, the two girls played a
drinking game with Cosby at his suggestion, and he then led them
to the Playboy Mansion after they "had been served multiple
alcoholic beverages."
Once at the mansion, the suit said, Cosby instructed the girls
to lie about their ages if asked. It was there that the Huth
said she emerged from a bathroom to find Cosby on a bed, asking
her to sit beside him before groping her.
"This traumatic incident, at such a tender age, has caused
psychological damage and mental anguish for the plaintiff that
has caused her significant problems throughout her life," the
complaint said. The suit seeks unspecified compensatory and
punitive damages.
Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, had no immediate comment on the
matter, his office said.
The suit came a day after Cosby resigned from the board of
trustees of Temple University, his Philadelphia alma mater, amid
a series of sexual assault accusations lodged against the
comedian by more than a dozen women in recent weeks.
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None of those women is believed to have filed a lawsuit.
Allegations that Cosby, now 77, drugged and sexually assaulted a
number of young women decades ago gained renewed attention after
standup comic Hannibal Buress called him a rapist during a
performance in October.
One of Cosby's accusers, Barbara Bowman, wrote in a Washington Post
op-ed last month that he sexually assaulted her on multiple
occasions in 1985 when she was 17.
Cosby's camp unwittingly intensified the scandal on Twitter by
asking supporters to create viral online parodies, or "memes," about
him, and were instead barraged with Internet satires about the rape
accusations.
Cosby has not been charged. His lawyers have called the assault
claims discredited and defamatory. In 2006, he settled for an
undisclosed sum a lawsuit brought by another woman, Andrea Constand,
who claimed Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her.
NBC and Netflix recently canceled projects with Cosby, and reruns of
his top-rated sitcom, "The Cosby Show," were pulled from cable
channel TV Land, all without explanation.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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