Consider post # 88, which claimed Cosby has settled numerous such claims , could be definitive. There were people who made a claim and were paid, so the question is perhaps reducible to whether payment was made as restitution/"hush money" or whether it was just cheaper to pay than litigate.
I agree that the HollyWeird “Star” has the power to abuse those who want into the Hollyweird world. However, that is largely a world where that with an aura of the sexual is being sold, or that which is far more overtly sexual than mere aura is sold.
As the history of film is the history of using sex to sell something, that a person would expect those my mother's generation called “theater people”(not a compliment, either) to behave other than they have is asking a bit much.
A mother brought her 14 year old daughter down to an interview for a short video. The mother and my colleague and I spoke with her at some length regarding her hopes for her daughter. Seems she had a sister who had married some actor named Sheen, evidently a man arguably of less than exemplary behavior. Knowing this, she was still planning to send her daughter out to his place for the coming summer.
The daughter was pretty, but not a head turning beauty, and intelligent, a rather sweet, ‘girl-next-door’ in short. While that was what was needed for the video, and while the mother would have been present during all taping events, the mother seemed content to have no presence at all during the coming summer.
She felt the sister's hosting the girl around HollyWeird would be good for her future in the entertainment world. The daughter was on the intelligent side and seemed quite capable of becoming a functioning professional in a number of fields so selling surface was not her only possibility.
HollyWeird’s promising allure of glamor and gold (rarely actualized, sadly) can be said to all too often exert a less than salutary effect on parents and offspring alike.
What has the above to do with the instant case of Cosby v. whomever? I would ask why any person expects to discuss business other than “funny business” with a HollyWeird ‘Star’ who insists on meeting in a hotel room.
I am hardly a “HollyWeird ‘Star’ but I always hold all interviews in a public place. That is why God created coffee shops in book stores.
Think I am joking? Try interviewing hopefuls who have the intelligence, appearance, and three ounces of metal embedded in their face, or sufficient tattoos to have satisfied a squad of WW II Marines!
At least a cup of espresso and browsing a book shelf helps remove the lingering taste of cultural devolution left by such “happenings”.
In short, color me suspicious.
And a bit nauseous, too
I don’t know, could this all be legit, sure, or could it just be folks out for a buck? Could it be a little of both? I don’t know.
Hushy Money, or shrewed business?
All I know is, I am glad to be a nobody, all the money in the world can not make fame worth the cost IMHO. I can’t imagine living a life where hopefuls are throwing themselves at you, and you have to worry about the motives of everyone you interact with, let alone date. That is a reality I have zero desire to exist in.
This isn’t a courtroom, but a discussion thread, so we are free to extrapolate and theorize. I see Cosby as a more careful and selective Jimmy Savile, but of the same breed of monster.
And he’s been protected by his celebrity status all these years, like Savile.