A former Playboy mannequin is suing Invoice Cosby, 85, for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1969. Victoria Valentino, 80, filed the lawsuit towards the actor and comic in California on Thursday (June 1), per Related Press.
Courtroom docs reportedly declare that Victoria was one in all two victims within the incident–although the second girl’s id stays unknown.
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Former Mannequin Says Cosby Gave Her Medication At Restaurant Earlier than Assaulting Her In His Residence
Within the go well with, the 80-year-old described assembly Cosby at a Los Angeles café about 54 years in the past. On the time, Valentino was reportedly mourning the drowning dying of her 6-year-old son.
Invoice Cosby, she says, approached her whereas she was crying and ultimately provided to pay for a spa remedy for Valentino and a pal. He later allegedly offered a chauffeured automobile that introduced the ladies to dinner at a steakhouse.
Whereas eating, Valentino’s lawsuit says, Cosby provided each ladies an unidentified capsule, saying, “Here take this…it will make you feel better, it will make us all feel better.”
AP’s report didn’t specify, however evidently each ladies took the provided capsules. After dinner, Cosby allegedly drove each ladies to his residence. After getting into the home, Valentino claims she handed out on a sofa. When she awakened someday later, Cosby was allegedly sexually assaulting her pal.
He then moved on to Valentino, additionally assaulting her whereas she couldn’t battle again, allegedly because of the drug’s impact. Valentino says Cosby “engaged in forced sexual intercourse.”
It’s unclear what occurred following the alleged assaults or if both girl got here in touch with Invoice after the incident.
Victoria Valentino Needs Actor On Trial & Chopping A Verify For Assault
Her lawsuit reportedly requests that Cosby endure a jury trial for the assaults. Moreover, Victoria needs “unspecified punitive damages,” per AP.
Valentino is one in all over 50 ladies who’ve accused Invoice of a intercourse crime, together with rape, sexual assault, and harassment, because the begin of the #MeToo motion.
He was arrested in 2015 and underwent two trials–the primary ending with a hung jury and the second resulting in a responsible verdict on three counts of felony indecent assault in 2019. He was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state jail.
Proof utilized in each trials included a 2005 deposition, the place Cosby admitted giving ladies medication often known as quaaludes. Nonetheless, his attorneys later argued that he gave that deposition in a civil case below the promise he wouldn’t be criminally persecuted, per Vulture.
Then, in Could 2021, the Pennslyvania Supreme Courtroom overturned the felony conviction attributable to that “non-prosecution agreement.” At the moment, Cosby stays a free man.
Nonetheless, in June 2022, a jury discovered him liable in a civil sexual assault case introduced ahead by Judy Huth, who says Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1975 when she was 16. The jury awarded Judy $500,000 in damages with no punitive damages. Judy was reportedly the primary of Cosby’s accusers to be granted a civil case trial.
It appears like Victoria could also be aiming to turn out to be the second accuser to get a jury trial. She is suing below California’s new legislation, which overlooks the statute of limitations for intercourse abuse allegations.
