NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—How many women must bleed to be heard? How many times? Once is not enough. It must be dozens, if not hundreds, of times. You need to do it under oath. You need to do it on camera. You need to let the lawyers and politicians and everyone on the internet call you and your family and your friends…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison on Tuesday for the night in 2004 he drugged, then sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in his Cheltenham home. Cosby—once a comedian so successful that having one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history was just a part of his…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—“To truly understand the impact that sexual assault has had on my life, you have to understand the person that I was before it happened.”
As part of his sentencing hearing set to begin on Monday, Bill Cosby’s lawyers plan to fight a classification as a “sexually violent predator,” the Associated Press reports. This would mean that, in addition to getting his name, image, and town added to Pennsylvania’s public sex offender registry, he would also have…
Lawyers for Billy Cosby are fighting to keep accusers from testifying at his sentencing on September 24, arguing that testimony should only be used if a defendant “remains a public threat.”
On Tuesday night’s edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers, Amber Ruffin, the show’s hilarious beacon of hope and fury, delivered a nearly three-minute informercial in which she reworked art made by bad men—beginning with “Fun It,” a take on Chris Brown’s “Run It.”
Months after the years-long battle against Bill Cosby ended after a second absolutely repulsive trial finally brought a guilty verdict of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand–one of dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of acts ranging from sexual harassment to rape–William & Mary…
Bill Cosby—who you might recall was actually found guilty on all counts of sexual assault in a Norristown, PA trial last month—is currently awaiting a September sentencing. This, however, is not the end of his legal battles: Former supermodel/America’s Next Top Model judge Janice Dickinson, who accuses Cosby of …
Last month, after so many years of hardly daring to imagine it possible, Bill Cosby was finally found guilty of something: three counts of committing aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand in 2004, at his Philadelphia home.
Less than a week after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts expelled Bill Cosby (and Roman Polanski) from its membership “in accordance with the organization’s Standards of Conduct,” Cosby continues to experience fallout from his recent sexual assault convictions. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has…
The trades are reporting Friday that film director and convicted child rapist Roman Polanski was “blindsided” by his recent booting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Both Polanski and Bill Cosby were expelled this week in an attempt by the Academy to “encourage ethical standards that require…
On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it was expelling Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby from its membership.
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—It was never just Bill Cosby. Long before reporters covered with sweep and scope how people like Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump kept up entire networks of people working to suppress negative press about them, Cosby did the same. It took many enablers, handlers, agents, and lawyers for Cosby…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania— First there was the running—everyone was running to get inside the courtroom. All the updates from court officials had, so far, said it was a jury question, but this one was different. It said court will reconvene, and the guess was a verdict. The national and international media, mostly gone…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Upon hearing the guilty verdict, District Attorney Kevin Steele almost immediately asked for Bill Cosby’s bail to be revoked, noting the serious charges on which Cosby was just convicted: three counts of indecent aggravated sexual assault. Judge Steven O’Neill pushed back, saying that Cosby’s…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Bill Cosby was found guilty Thursday on all counts of aggravated indecent assault for the night Andrea Constand said the famous comedian drugged and sexually assaulted her inside his Cheltenham home. It was the second trial for Cosby on these charges; the first one, held last year, ended in a…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—“She is not the con, he is.”
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Almost nobody was spared in the Bill Cosby defense team’s scorched-earth closing arguments. They attacked the accuser, Andrea Constand; her mother, Gianna; law enforcement; all five women who also testified saying Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted them; and even some unnamed “movement”…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—The defense of Bill Cosby closed with a whimper on Monday after Cosby, for a second time, swore he had independently made his decision not to testify. Closing arguments are scheduled to happen on Tuesday, and then jurors will deliberate on the three counts of aggravated indecent assault filed…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—At one point, the expert hired by Bill Cosby’s defense team spent five minutes just reading from the back of an old Benadryl box. First, Dr. Harry Milman read the active ingredients. Then Milman read the warnings. He did that for about five minutes, after already being on the stand for more…
