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In this Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 file
photo, model and television personality Janice Dickinson arrives at the Make
Equality Reality Gala at the Montage Beverly Hills, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Dickinson is adding her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby of
sexual assault. In an "Entertainment Tonight" interview that aired
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, Dickinson said that the 1982 incident occurred in Lake
Tahoe, California, where he was performing. (Photo by Dan
Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
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Model and TV host
Janice Dickinson added her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby
of sexual assault. In an Entertainment Tonight interview that aired Tuesday,
Dickinson said that the 1982 incident occurred in Lake Tahoe, California, where
he was appearing.
She told the show that she
wrote about the assault in her 2002 autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The
Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, but that Cosby and his lawyers
pressured her and the publisher to remove the details.
A call to Cosby's publicist
seeking comment was not immediately returned.
In the interview, Dickinson
said she met Cosby in Lake Tahoe at his urging after he said that he would help
her with her singing career. They had met earlier when her agent had introduced
them, hoping that she could get a job on The Cosby Show.
Dickinson said that after
dinner, she and Cosby were in her hotel room and that he gave her some red wine
and a pill. She told Entertainment Tonight she had asked for a pill because she
had been suffering stomach pains.
"The next morning I woke
up and I wasn't wearing my pajamas and I remembered before I passed out I had
been sexually assaulted by this man," she said. She said she remembered
Cosby dropping the robe he had been wearing and getting on top of her.
She said she never confronted
Cosby about the incident.
"I'm doing this because
it's the right thing to do and this happened to me and this is a true
story," she said.
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In the memoir, Dickinson
described stopping herself at his hotel room door when he invited her in after
dinner, claiming exhaustion.
"After all I've done for
you, that's what I get? 'I'm exhausted,'' Dickinson quoted Cosby as saying. He
then "gave me the dirtiest, meanest look in the world, stepped into his
suite, and slammed the door in my face," she wrote.
Cosby, 77, who was never
criminally charged in any case, settled a civil suit in 2006 with another woman
over an alleged incident two years before.
Attention to the legendary
entertainer's past flared suddenly in recent weeks after another comic,
Hannibal Buress, called Cosby a "rapist" during a Philadelphia
performance. Two other women have emerged as accusers, including Barbara
Bowman, who wrote an online Washington Post piece.
Cosby has remained silent, and
his attorney, John P. Schmitt, issued a statement Sunday saying his client
would not dignify "decade-old, discredited" claims of sexual abuse
with a response. Schmitt later exempted the 2006 civil case from the blanket
statement.
Meanwhile, late Tuesday Netflix
announced it is postponing Cosby's upcoming standup comedy special, Bill Cosby
77.
Cosby agrees with the Netflix
action, his publicist, David Brokaw, said in an email Tuesday. He did not
elaborate, and there was no immediate comment regarding Dickinson's
allegations.
Cosby was also reported to be
in talks with NBC about a new series before coming under fire in recent weeks,
but the network has not commented on the status of that project.
Source:
http://www.msn.com
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