A woman who claims Bill Cosby drugged and raped her in 1972 won a $19.25 million jury award on Monday, decades after first stepping forward as Jane Doe Number 8 in the 2005 lawsuit filed by former Temple University athletics director Andrea Constand against the disgraced comedian.
Jurors found Cosby liable for the sexual assault of an intoxicated woman as well as sexual battery. They awarded plaintiff Donna Motsinger $17.5 million for past mental suffering and $1.75 million for future suffering. In another major finding, they determined Cosby acted with “malice, oppression, or fraud,” opening the door to punitive damages to be decided in a second phase of the trial.
In her testimony and court filings, Motsinger, 84, claimed Cosby befriended her while she was working as a waitress at a popular restaurant in Sausalito, California, called The Trident. She said Cosby later invited her to the recording of his standup act Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby at the Circle Star Theater in nearby San Carlos. She alleged Cosby gave her wine that made her feel sick and then gave her two round white pills she thought were aspirin.
“Next thing she knew, she was going in and out of consciousness,” Motsinger’s lawsuit said. “The last thing Ms. Motsinger recalls were flashes of light. She woke up in her house. with all her clothes off, except her underwear on – no top, no bra, and no pants. She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.”
I remember reading a blog written by a woman claiming Cosby raped her in the mid 90’s when I was a kid just scrolling random stuff on Geocities or some site like that.
He’s still alive? Damn, oh well, good things to look forward to.
Even if he were dead, his estate would fight it for as long as they possibly could.
I wonder if she’ll ever even see a fraction of that amount.
He’s 84, so there’s no telling how much longer he’ll live. But you damn well know that his estate will fight it tooth-and-nail for as long as they possibly can.
Scumbags.
Pay-to-rape, the American way!
I guess he shouldn’t have puddin popped them drugs in her food.
Is it time to zippy doop him back to jail?
I don’t love that the headline as well as the first line of the article use the words “says” and “claims”.
the jury ruled he was guilty. we’re so far past “allegedly” and all that garbage. he did it. she was drugged. she was raped. there is no reason to be inferring any amount of doubt anymore.
And what happened to the other $40.05 million between title and first sentence?
I don’t love it either in general, but they chose those words very specifically since this was not a criminal case.
The jury found him liable, not guilty. This was a civil suit, not criminal. That’s why they’re saying this and not “convicted of assault” or whatever.
This jury. He was in jail for 3 years before they decided some procedural nonsense made his confession not count.
He did it. He was convinced for it. He served time for it.
Good. Take that you slime bag.
