Two
more women accuse Bill Cosby of drugging them
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[February 13, 2015]
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two
women accused Bill Cosby on Thursday of drugging them
decades ago when they met him as young models, and one
said he sexually assaulted her, as more of his
performances were shelved amid an outcry from activists
over similar allegations.
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More than a dozen women have publicly accused Cosby of sexual
misconduct in recent months, in a controversy that has tarnished
the image of the actor and comedian best known as the lovable
father figure on the 1980s sitcom "The Cosby Show."
Cosby denies the allegations of sexual assault, many of which
are decades old and fall outside the statute of limitations for
criminal or civil cases.
Linda Brown and Lise-Lotte Lublin came forward on Thursday as
the latest women to bring public accusations against Cosby at
the Los Angeles office of attorney Gloria Allred, who
acknowledged it was too late for them to sue Cosby.
Brown told reporters she met Cosby in 1969 in Canada and went to
his hotel suite where he gave her a soft drink that caused her
to black out. She said that when she woke up, she was naked next
to him in bed.
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"I couldn't move or speak. I felt paralyzed, he flipped me over
and sexually assaulted me," Brown said. "I felt like a rag doll
and like a real-life blow-up doll for him."
Lublin said she met Cosby in 1989 at a hotel in Las Vegas and
that he asked her to perform an improvisation on the pretext of
evaluating her acting. The comedian gave her two alcoholic
drinks that caused her to feel disoriented, she said.
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Lublin said that a short time later, he embraced her. She said her
memory of the incident was hazy and that she remembered waking up at
her home in the area and not knowing how she got there.
Allred said Brown and Lublin believed Cosby drugged them, which
other women in media interviews have also said happened to them in
encounters with the comedian.
Cosby's lawyer has called those and similar claims "discredited" and
"defamatory." His attorney did not immediately return emails on
Thursday.
Cosby, 77, had a show scheduled for Thursday in Bakersfield,
California, but in a statement earlier this week, he postponed it.
His Feb. 21 show at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh was also canceled by
what venue officials described as the result of a mutual agreement
with Cosby.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)
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