A girl who stated Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her when she was once a tender comedy creator greater than 50 years in the past filed a lawsuit towards the actor Thursday under a soon-to-expire New York law that gave sufferers of sexual abuse a one-year window for claims that may in a different way be barred via deadlines.
Joan Tarshis to begin with got here ahead with allegations against Cosby in 2014 which might be repeated within the new lawsuit. Tarshis stated Cosby drugged her and compelled her to accomplish oral intercourse on him in 1969 or 1970, after which drugged and raped her throughout some other stumble upon a yr or two later.
The New York resident was once residing in California on the time of the primary attack and had met Cosby thru a mutual good friend whilst he was once starring in “The Bill Cosby Show,” in step with the lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in New York City.
A spokesperson for Cosby didn’t cope with the specifics of Tarshis’s claims.
“Diddy, LA Reid, Steven Tyler, and now they circle back to this,” spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said, referring to others recently sued under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. “When is it going to stop?”
Cosby, 86, has been accused of rape, sexual attack and sexual harassment via greater than 60 ladies. He has denied all allegations involving intercourse crimes. He was once the first celebrity tried and convicted within the #MeToo generation and spent just about 3 years at a state jail close to Philadelphia earlier than a better court docket overturned the conviction and launched him in 2021.
Tarshis was once a few of the first accusers to talk publicly about Cosby, whom she met when she was once 19 and simply breaking into comedy writing. An interview she did with CNN newsman Don Lemon quickly after she got here ahead drew a flurry of consideration on social media, and an apology from Lemon. While on-air, the host instructed Tarshis can have bitten Cosby on his genitals throughout the primary attack, one thing Tarshis stated she hadn’t considered.
Tarshis prior to now sued Cosby in Massachusetts, the place Cosby had a house. She was once amongst seven ladies who filed defamation claims after Cosby branded them liars. The cases were settled in 2019.
The new lawsuit alleges attack, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and false imprisonment. It seeks unspecified damages.
In it, Tarshis stated Cosby invited her to fulfill with him on the studio lot the place he was once filming his display, under the pretense of running on a skit she was once writing. Once in his bungalow, Tarshis stated she fell subconscious after accepting a drink from Cosby and woke up to seek out him undressing her earlier than forcing her to accomplish oral intercourse.
“Ms Tarshis was mortified and feared for her life,” and returned to New York with out telling somebody what came about, in step with the lawsuit.
She subsequent heard from Cosby in 1971, when he referred to as her house, spoke together with her mom, and invited her to his display at Westbury Music Fair, the lawsuit stated.
“Though Ms. Tarshis was fearful at the prospect of seeing Cosby again, she had not yet told anyone, including her mother, of the prior sexual assault and she reluctantly agreed to meet with Cosby at the insistence of her mother,” in step with the lawsuit.
She stated she misplaced awareness in a limousine Cosby had organized for them and woke up the following morning in a mattress subsequent to Cosby, who she stated had undressed and raped her.
The Adult Survivors Act is ready to run out subsequent week.
Antonio “L.A.” Reid, a song govt, was once sued ultimate week via an govt who alleges that Reid sexually assaulted her two times in 2001. Email and phone messages left for Joel Katz, an lawyer who represented Reid when the allegations surfaced in 2017, weren’t in an instant returned Friday night time.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has denied allegations of rape and abuse introduced via a former female friend previous this week.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has no longer publicly answered to a lawsuit filed previous this month.