LOS ANGELES: Invoice Cosby sexually assaulted a youngster on the Playboy Mansion nearly 50 years in the past, a jury in California discovered Tuesday, within the first civil ruling towards the veteran entertainer following dozens of allegations.
Judy Huth, now aged 64, was awarded $500,000 in damages after the jury in Santa Monica decided that Cosby had molested her in 1975 when she was simply 16 years previous after assembly her on a film set and plying her with alcohol.
The case is the one profitable authorized motion towards Cosby, 84, who has been accused of utilizing his fame to prey on girls over a number of many years.
The person previously generally known as “America’s Dad” was jailed in Pennsylvania for drugging and molesting a girl in a separate legal case in 2018, however was freed final 12 months when his conviction was overturned on a technicality.
Over a two-week civil listening to, which Cosby didn’t attend, legal professionals mentioned he escorted Huth and her then-17-year-old good friend, Donna Samuelson, to Hugh Hefner’s mansion after assembly them on a film set.
The jury heard how when Huth was alone with Cosby, the actor started kissing her and tried to place his fingers inside her garments.
They had been informed how he then allegedly pulled down his personal trousers and compelled her to carry out a intercourse act on him.
Lawyer Nathan Goldberg mentioned for a few years Huth had repressed reminiscences of the assault however that it got here to the fore for her when different girls started accusing him of assaulting them.
“It was like a cork popped out of a bottle,” mentioned Goldberg at first of the case. “Recollections got here speeding to the floor… she grew to become overwhelmed by reminiscences of Mr Cosby and what he had performed.”
She initially filed her lawsuit in December 2014, however the case was placed on maintain whereas varied legal investigations performed out.
The civil trial was proven a videotaped deposition of Cosby taken in 2015 during which he denied the assault, and insisted that he would by no means interact in sexual exercise with an underage woman.
His legal professionals made a lot of obvious discrepancies in Huth’s story, together with that each teenagers spent as much as 12 hours on the mansion after the alleged assault.
In addition they argued that Huth initially claimed the assault occurred in 1974 when she was 15, however later mentioned it had occurred the next 12 months.
The case was by no means prosecuted criminally because the statute of limitations had handed by the point Huth spoke to police.
California regulation permits adults who say they had been sexually abused as minors, however have solely not too long ago turn out to be conscious of the injury, to convey civil circumstances years after the statute of limitations would usually have expired.
Cosby was a towering determine in late-Twentieth century American standard tradition, and hit the massive time as affable obstetrician and father Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Present,” which ran from 1984-92.
However round 60 girls, a lot of them onetime aspiring actresses and fashions, have publicly branded Cosby a calculating, serial predator who plied victims with sedatives and alcohol to mattress them over 4 many years.
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