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…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—This time Marguerite “Margo” Jackson got to testify. Last year, during the first criminal trial of Bill Cosby on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, the longtime Temple employee emerged during the proceedings saying that she had once roomed with Andrea Constand during a road trip for…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—The defense of Bill Cosby began Thursday in the famous comedian’s retrial on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. In his trial last year, Cosby’s defense was barely a defense at all, with his lawyers going almost immediately to closing arguments and telling jurors there was simply no…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—The first time around, I called this place “the gauntlet.” Reporters, photographers, and TV cameras stands littered the courthouse steps here last year for Bill Cosby’s criminal trial. Exiting the courthouse was, if you did it at the wrong time, daunting. The cameras and reporters crowded in…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Cheltenham Township Sgt. Richard Schaffer took the stand Tuesday and, once again, did his best to deflect, diffuse, and downright deny the attempts by Bill Cosby’s defense lawyer to turn his own words against him.
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—It was until close to the end of her nearly three-hour cross examination on Monday that Gianna Constand began to cry. She already seemed exhausted, several times putting her hands around her face. She had snapped back at the person questioning her, defense lawyer Kathleen Bliss, at one point…
