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…
A woman has accused singer R. Kelly of intentionally infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease when she was 19, in addition to holding her against her will, plying her with illegal drugs and alcohol, and assaulting her. The accuser’s attorney says Kelly was attempting to groom her for a sex cult the singer has…
NORRISTOWN, Penn.—American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, was recently the subject of a New Yorker report on its role in buying and then burying stories about President Donald Trump. This wasn’t the first time the company has been accused of doing this sort of thing for powerful entertainers, and Friday,…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—For a second time, Andrea Constand took the stand and calmly and methodically told a jury about the night she said famous comedian Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her. She went over the same narrative as last year’s trial, which ended with a hung jury, but this time was different.…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—By the time Lise-Lotte Lublin took the stand on Thursday, some familiar shared details between all the women’s stories were emerging. Like several others, Lublin met Bill Cosby as a young model. She wasn’t too interesting in modeling; Lublin said she did the work because she could use the…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Model and TV star Janice Dickinson took the stand in the Cosby trial on Thursday, April 12, recounting the time she says Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in Lake Tahoe. Her story shared details with several other women who already have testified: a pill to make her feel better, losing…
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who is facing a criminal invasion of privacy charge and is the subject of an intensifying Republican-led state House investigation, was accused by a woman under oath of sexual coercion and physical violence, according to a report released by a state House committee.
After Mujey Dumbuya, a 16-year-old girl from Kalamazoo, Michigan was found dead under suspicious circumstances in February, her alleged rapist Quinn James was a person of interest, given Dumbuya was set to testify against him in court for rape. Now, James has been charged with murdering Dumbuya as well as kidnapping…
He was my dude, my nigga, my friend. The details of that night are mine to keep, a privacy I allow myself, even as I often openly share my childhood sexual trauma. This particular violation—rape—came at a crossroads in my life. I was figuring out two things: blackness and butchness, and trying hard to do “the most”…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Janice Baker-Kinney, like so many other women who say Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them, has told her story before she took the stand on April 11, at the disgraced comedian’s retrial. She was a bartender at Harrah’s in Reno, Nevada, in the 1980s when she went over with a friend to…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Even before she took the stand, Chelan Lasha was in tears. Lasha sat in a chair, positioned behind the table for prosecutors, waiting for her chance to speak. Her soft sobs already were audible. When she took the stand, Lasha’s testimony about the day she says Bill Cosby drugged and sexually…
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—The first of the five women expected to testify that they, like Andrea Constand, were drugged and sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby took the stand Tuesday afternoon in the retrial of the disgraced comedian. Thomas has told her story before. She first spoke out in 2015 and was a part of the…
In late January, it was reported that an incipient #MeToo movement in China was being targeted by government censors, with social media posts mentioning things like “anti-sexual harassment” being blocked or deleted. But the resurfacing one woman’s sexual assault story has been hard to suppress surrounding the…
Rory Best should have stayed in Carton House with the rest of the Irish national rugby team. Instead, the captain and starting hooker sat in Belfast’s Laganside Crown Court alongside his teammate Iain Henderson, watching the trial of two other teammates for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman in June 2016. Paddy…
Since the Los Angeles Times first reported on director James Toback’s predatory behavior and sexual harassment, over 190 women have come forward with similar stories. But in Los Angeles, Toback will ultimately not face sex crime charges for the allegations.
