Posted on 11/13/2014 7:37:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In 2004, when Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby for sexual assault, her lawyers asked me to testify. Cosby had drugged and raped me, too, I told them. The lawyers said I could testify anonymously as a Jane Doe, but I ardently rejected that idea. My name is not Jane Doe. My name is Barbara Bowman, and I wanted to tell my story in court. In the end, I didn’t have the opportunity to do that, because Cosby settled the suit for an undisclosed amount of money.
Over the years, I’ve struggled to get people to take my story seriously. So last month, when reporter Lycia Naff contacted me for an interview for the Daily Mail, I gave her a detailed account. I told her how Cosby won my trust as a 17-year-old aspiring actress in 1985, brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure, and then assaulted me multiple times.
In one case, I blacked out after having dinner and one glass of wine at his New York City brownstone, where he had offered to mentor me and discuss the entertainment industry. When I came to, I was in my panties and a man’s t-shirt, and Cosby was looming over me. I’m certain that he drugged and raped me. The final incident was in Atlantic City, where we had traveled for industry event.
I was staying in a separate bedroom of Cosby’s hotel suite, but he pinned me down in his own bed while I screamed for help. I’ll never forget the clinking of his belt buckle as he struggled to pull his pants off. I furiously tried to wrestle from his grasp until he eventually gave up, angrily called me “a baby” and sent me home to Denver.
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Juanita Broaddrick had no comment.
So she traveled alone with a man. What could possibly go wrong?
Because she kept going back to him?
Something seems so off about this story.
Hollywood is filled with this kind of thing. But somehow I wonder if she didn’t try to use herself to further herself.
If he raped you once, why are you continuing to be in a bedroom with him as you travel.
Interesting that he was into a White Chick.
My Mom would say - they aren't saying the "Our Father" together, thats for sure.
MOre on the history of the story
http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/2007/01/03/jell-o-man-actor-comedian-educator-tabloid-bitch-and-serial-rapist/
My thought as well. Yet I wish this woman success in her efforts.
(The above are my concerns — the system, due process — but I believe the reason this woman was not believed had nothing to do with anyone’s respect for due process. Rather, this woman was not believed because people did not want to believe that Cosby, a black celebrity with a wholesome image, would assault anyone, or even sleep with anyone besides his wife, especially not a white woman or girl.)
“If he raped you once, why are you continuing to be in a bedroom with him as you travel.”
My thoughts as well. It makes her story very difficult to swallow.
I don't know where she read it but she told me this in the early 80s.
Now I can see why they gave Bill Clinton such a pass.
Because we never heard of this story for 30 years? Just guessing.
And on the page right next to the article? A Viagra ad. Stay classy, Washington Post.
P.S. No post #1 on the page?
“Because she kept going back to him?”
Maybe she considered herself a reparation.
So she settled for money, which includes non disclosures I would imagine, and now she is talking about it? I am not saying what he did was right, I am saying this woman has issues.
Yes, something went wrong with the OP, and incidentally I couldn’t decide whether to post FIrst! or Second! in that post. It’s a First World Problem, to be sure.
Indeed you can’t rape the willing.
I’m not defending Cosby but she kind of lost me at “multiple times”.
Nine years ago, eleven women were allegedly coming forward as witnesses in the sexual assault suit brought by Andrea Constand. All ten of the women had stories about drugging and sexual assault. I can get some names if you want them. Cosby settled that lawsuit before it went to trial.
In 2000, Cosby was accused of sexual assault by a Cosby show cast member, Lachele Covington.
It's Gawker, so cover your computer with a condom, but this story says thirteen women have accused him, from thre 1970s to the 2000s.
Comedian Hannibal Buress jokes about it in his act.
You may be interested in this timeline:
November 2002
Andrea Constand, director of operations for Temple University’s women’s basketball team, alleges a meeting with Bill Cosby. A member of Temple’s track and field and football teams, Constand claims that Cosby assumed a role as her mentor.
January 2004
According to Constand, she visited Cosby at his Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, home to discuss career advice, and after allegedly (according to a civil lawsuit she would later file) giving her "herbal" pills to ease her anxiety, Cosby “touched her breasts and vaginal area, rubbed his penis against her hand, and digitally penetrated” her.
January 13, 2005
Constand, who had since moved near Toronto to study massage therapy, accuses Cosby of "inappropriate touching" — groping her breasts and placing her hand on his genitals — to Canadian authorities. Cosby’s lawyer calls her allegation "utterly preposterous" and "plainly bizarre.” January 27, 2005
ABC News reports that the interaction between Constand and Cosby — who is at this point cooperating with the investigation — might have been consensual.
February 10, 2005
Tamara Green, a California lawyer, appears on the Today show and alleges that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in the 1970s. Green tells Matt Lauer that Cosby, who had given her pills to combat a fever, drove her to her apartment and began “… groping me and kissing me and touching me and handling me and … taking off my clothes.” According to Green, Cosby left two $100 bills on her coffee table afterwards. Cosby’s lawyer issues a statement: “Miss Green’s allegations are absolutely false. Mr. Cosby does not know the name Tamara Green or Tamara Lucier [her maiden name], and the incident she describes did not happen. The fact that she may have repeated this story to others is not corroboration.”
February 17, 2005
Citing a lack of evidence, the investigating district attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, announces he will not act on Constand’s accusation and bring criminal charges against Cosby.
March 8, 2005
Constand files a civil complaint against Cosby. The five-count lawsuit charges Cosby with battery and assault, and asks for at least $150,000 in damages. Thirteen women who allege similar experiences as Constand and Green are mentioned in court papers as Jane Doe witnesses.
May 2005
In Constand’s civil lawsuit, she alleges the comedian gave her three blue pills, which he said was herbal medication. Cosby’s lawyers, however, issue a court filing and attempt to clarify that the comedian merely gave Constand one and a half tablets of Benadryl.
June 2005
Jane Doe 5 goes public. Beth Ferrier claims she was in a relationship with Cosby in the mid-1980s, one that ended when he allegedly drugged her coffee and Ferrier woke in a car. “My clothes were a mess. My bra was undone. My top was untucked. And I'm sitting there going, 'Oh my God. Where am I?' What's going on? I was so out of it. It was just awful."
February 2006
While in the midst of her civil suit, Constand sues one of Cosby’s lawyers — and the National Enquirer — for defamation. Cosby had spoken to the tabloid the year before, and Constand claimed the interview defamed her as it “[intended] to or knowing it would injure” her.
November 2006
Cosby settles with Constand. Terms are not disclosed, and none of the 13 other women testify.
November 2006
Philadelphia magazine interviews another witness in Constand’s lawsuit, Barbara Bowman. “Cosby threw me on the bed and braced his forearm against my neck and attempted to disrobe me and himself,” she said. “I can still remember him messing with his belt. And I was screaming and crying and yelling and begging him to stop.”
December 2006
The following month, People magazine publishes Bowman's account of several assaults: "It was in a hotel in Reno, claims Bowman, that Cosby assaulted her one night in 1986. 'He took my hand and his hand over it, and he masturbated with his hand over my hand,' says Bowman, who, although terrified, kept quiet about the incident and continued as Cosby's protégé because, she says, 'Who's gonna believe this? He was a powerful man. He was like the president.' Before long she was alone with Cosby again in his Manhattan townhouse; she was given a glass of red wine, and "the next thing I know, I'm sick and I'm nauseous and I'm delusional and I'm limp and ... I can't think straight.... And I just came to, and I'm wearing a [men's] T-shirt that wasn't mine, and he was in a white robe.'"
That same People article reports that three of the Jane Does from the March 2005 case accepted cash from Cosby for years, and two others began consensual sexual relationships with Cosby.
February 2014
Katie Baker of Newsweek — Whitaker’s former employer — interviews both Green and Bowman about the alleged assaults. Bowman tells Baker she was disappointed in the settlement, and Green recounts running into and accosting Cosby in Las Vegas, yelling, “Rapist! Liar! Asshole!” While Cosby doesn’t issue a statement regarding Bowman’s claims, his publicist responds to Green, “This is a 10-year-old, discredited accusation that proved to be nothing at the time, and is still nothing.”
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