Re: Bill Cosby sued for alleged 1986 sexual assault of teen in Las Vegas hotel

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On 28 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
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> Of course he raped her. He raped everything he looked at.

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is being accused of drugging and sexually
assaulting a teenager in 1986 in a new civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Las Vegas.

This is the latest lawsuit against the former "Cosby Show" star, who has
been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60
women. He has denied all allegations.

Cosby, 86, was one of the first major celebrities convicted of sexual
assault in the #MeToo era and spent nearly three years at a state prison
near Philadelphia before a higher court threw out his conviction and
released him in 2021, shocking prosecutors and his accusers.

According to the latest lawsuit, Cosby befriended Chelan Lasha when she
was 15 after Cosby saw a picture of her on her stepmother's desk and he
offered to help with her modeling career. Lasha was one of five accusers
who testified at Cosby's sexual assault trial in 2018.

When Cosby visited the family's home in North Las Vegas, he would hand out
Jello pudding pops to kids in the neighborhood, the suit claims. Then,
when Lasha was 17 years old, Cosby asked her to go a suite at the Las
Vegas Hilton, where Lasha worked at the bell desk, to have a professional
photographer take headshots, according to the suit.

The photographer took photos of Lasha and then Cosby asked her to wet her
hair and put on a robe, the suit says. She did while wearing a skort and a
tank top underneath, according to the suit. After the photographer left,
Cosby offered Lasha a blue capsule he said was an antihistamine, to help
her with her sinus issues because she had been blowing her nose, along
with a glass of Amaretto, the suit says.

"(Lasha) took the pill as Cosby had instructed because she trusted him and
thought he was a good man. She never imagined that he was going to drug
her and sexually assault her," the suit says.

After running lines with a vocal coach, Cosby gave her another glass of
Amaretto and kept asking her if she was okay, according to the suit. When
she sat down on a couch, he began rubbing her shoulders and told her she
needed to lay down, the suit says.

"He took her down a corridor to a bedroom and laid Plaintiff down on a
bed. Cosby lay next to Plaintiff. Plaintiff at this time realized that she
could not move. Her eyes were open and she was aware of what was happening
but she could not do anything about it," according to the lawsuit.

"Cosby started touching Plaintiff's breasts and nipples and was humping on
her leg and grunting. Then Plaintiff felt Cosby ejaculating on her leg,"
the lawsuit claims.

Lasha then passed out and woke up groggy to Cosby repeatedly clapping his
hands, saying: "Daddy says wake up," according to the lawsuit. Lasha
noticed she was naked under her robe, the suit says.

"She was aware that Cosby had had sex with her. The plaintiff never
consented to having sex with Cosby. She had been a virgin prior to this
assault," according to the lawsuit.

Cosby then told her to get dressed and leave, and handed her a stack of
$100 bills as he escorted her to the elevator, the suit says.

After she got home, Lasha told her sister and a friend what had happened,
according to the suit. She also noticed blood stains in her underwear, the
suit said. "Cosby called Plaintiff on the phone a couple of days later and
asked Plaintiff how she was doing. She said she was not doing well and she
was crying. Cosby then said people that talk too much can be quieted,"
according to the lawsuit.

Soon after, Lasha was "black-balled" from the entertainment industry, the
suit claims. The traumatic incident ended up affecting the rest of Lasha's
life, the suit says.

"She ended up having a downward spiral in her life and suffered many long-
term problems, including drug addiction and other pathologies," according
to the lawsuit. "The sexual assault has had lifelong negative impacts on
Plaintiff's life, as it set her down a deleterious path and has tormented
her ever since. She still breaks down crying about it to this day, and
will likely do so for the rest of her life, or at least until she gets
some justice and closure with Cosby facing accountability for his wrongful
actions against her."

Andrew Wyatt, Cosby's publicist, said in a statement on Thursday that the
comedian had no comment and
called the lawsuits against him "100% ridiculous and ludicrous."

"During the 2018 trial, during cross examination, Ms. Lasha stated under
oath, 'Dr. Huxatable raped and drugged me.' However, the 'Cosby Show' had
not come to fruition," he said. "Media should vet these women
extensively."

Last year, nine women also filed a lawsuit against Cosby in Nevada. Each
woman accused the comedian of sexual battery, assault, and abuse between
1979 and 1992, some in Las Vegas hotels. The women claimed Cosby "drugged
or attempted to drug" each of them.

In 2022, a Los Angeles jury awarded awarded $500,000 to a woman who said
Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.

Lasha, who is alleging sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor,
battery, assault, infliction of emotional distress and false imprisonment,
is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, according to the suit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-cosby-sued-for-alleged-1986-sexual-
assault-of-17-year-old-in-las-vegas-hotel-room/