Bill
Cosby accused of three more sexual assaults as
deposition looms
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[October 01, 2015] By
Daina Beth Solomon
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Three more women came forward on Wednesday to accuse
veteran comedian Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them
decades ago, charges that come a week before Cosby is
scheduled to give a sworn deposition in a separate
sexual assault lawsuit.
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Sharon Van Ert, Pamela Abeyta and Lisa Christie appeared at a
Los Angeles news conference and alleged that Cosby assaulted
them. They were teary-eyed as they gave their accounts.
The news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred came a
week ahead of a deposition that Cosby, 78, has been ordered to
give in a lawsuit brought by another Allred client, a woman
accusing the comedian of sexually abusing her at the Playboy
Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.
Allred said she is opposing Cosby's motion for a protective
order to restrict public release of the deposition he is set to
give Oct 9. "There should be transparency," she said. A court is
expected to decide the matter ahead of his deposition.
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Allred said that while the statute of limitations prevents the
three women at Wednesday's news conference from taking legal
action, they wanted to add their voices to the more than 50
women who already have come forward with similar allegations.
Van Ert said she met Cosby when she was a waitress at a Southern
California beachside jazz club in 1976. She said Cosby offered
to walk her to her car one night and got in with her. She said
she blacked out, woke up later alone and suspected Cosby of
drugging and assaulting her.
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Abeyta said that in 1975, when she was 25 and aspiring to appear in
Playboy magazine, she arranged to meet Cosby and was taken to a Las
Vegas hotel and given her own bedroom in his penthouse suite. She
said she believes her drink was drugged when she attended a show
with Cosby and his friends. She awoke later in the comedian's bed.
Christie said she met Cosby when she was a model and aspiring
actress aged 18, and he cast her as an extra on "The Cosby Show."
She said she viewed him as a father figure and maintained a platonic
relationship with him for two years, but then he attempted to coerce
her into sleeping with him.
Cosby's lawyers have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing by the 78
year-old entertainer. A representative on Wednesday said Cosby had
no comment on the latest allegations.
(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon, writing by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing
by David Gregorio)
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