Disgraced comic Invoice Cosby is being accused of drugging and sexually assaulting an adolescent in 1986 in a brand new civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Courtroom in Las Vegas.
That is the most recent lawsuit in opposition to the previous “Cosby Present” star, who has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by greater than 60 girls. He has denied all allegations.
Cosby, 86, was one of many first main celebrities convicted of sexual assault within the #MeToo period and spent almost three years at a state jail close to Philadelphia earlier than a better courtroom threw out his conviction and launched him in 2021, stunning prosecutors and his accusers.
In accordance with the most recent lawsuit, Cosby befriended Chelan Lasha when she was 15 after Cosby noticed an image of her on her stepmother’s desk and he supplied to assist along with her modeling profession. Lasha was one in every of 5 accusers who testified at Cosby’s sexual assault trial in 2018.
When Cosby visited the household’s dwelling in North Las Vegas, he would hand out Jello pudding pops to youngsters within the neighborhood, the swimsuit claims. Then, when Lasha was 17 years outdated, Cosby requested her to go a collection on the Las Vegas Hilton, the place Lasha labored on the bell desk, to have an expert photographer take headshots, in keeping with the swimsuit.
The photographer took pictures of Lasha after which Cosby requested her to moist her hair and placed on a gown, the swimsuit says. She did whereas sporting a skort and a tank high beneath, in keeping with the swimsuit. After the photographer left, Cosby supplied Lasha a blue capsule he mentioned was an antihistamine, to assist her along with her sinus points as a result of she had been blowing her nostril, together with a glass of Amaretto, the swimsuit says.
“(Lasha) took the capsule as Cosby had instructed as a result of she trusted him and thought he was an excellent man. She by no means imagined that he was going to drug her and sexually assault her,” the swimsuit says.
After working strains with a vocal coach, Cosby gave her one other glass of Amaretto and stored asking her if she was okay, in keeping with the swimsuit. When she sat down on a sofa, he started rubbing her shoulders and advised her she wanted to put down, the swimsuit says.
“He took her down a hall to a bed room and laid Plaintiff down on a mattress. Cosby lay subsequent to Plaintiff. Plaintiff at the moment realized that she couldn’t transfer. Her eyes had been open and he or she was conscious of what was taking place however she couldn’t do something about it,” in keeping with the lawsuit.
“Cosby began touching Plaintiff’s breasts and nipples and was humping on her leg and grunting. Then Plaintiff felt Cosby ejaculating on her leg,” the lawsuit claims.
Lasha then handed out and awoke groggy to Cosby repeatedly clapping his palms, saying: “Daddy says get up,” in keeping with the lawsuit. Lasha seen she was bare below her gown, the swimsuit says.
“She was conscious that Cosby had had intercourse along with her. The plaintiff by no means consented to having intercourse with Cosby. She had been a virgin previous to this assault,” in keeping with the lawsuit.
Cosby then advised her to dress and go away, and handed her a stack of $100 payments as he escorted her to the elevator, the swimsuit says.
After she acquired dwelling, Lasha advised her sister and a pal what had occurred, in keeping with the swimsuit. She additionally seen blood stains in her underwear, the swimsuit mentioned. “Cosby referred to as Plaintiff on the cellphone a few days later and requested Plaintiff how she was doing. She mentioned she was not doing properly and she was crying. Cosby then mentioned folks that speak an excessive amount of could be quieted,” in keeping with the lawsuit.
Quickly after, Lasha was “black-balled” from the leisure business, the swimsuit claims. The traumatic incident ended up affecting the remainder of Lasha’s life, the swimsuit says.
“She ended up having a downward spiral in her life and suffered many long-term issues, together with drug habit and different pathologies,” in keeping with the lawsuit. “The sexual assault has had lifelong unfavourable impacts on Plaintiff’s life, because it set her down a deleterious path and has tormented her ever since. She nonetheless breaks down crying about it to this present day, and can doubtless accomplish that for the remainder of her life, or at least till she will get some justice and closure with Cosby going through accountability for his wrongful actions in opposition to her.”
Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s publicist, mentioned in a press release on Thursday that the comic had no remark and referred to as the lawsuits in opposition to him “100% ridiculous and ludicrous.”
“In the course of the 2018 trial, throughout cross examination, Ms. Lasha said below oath, ‘Dr. Huxatable raped and drugged me.’ Nonetheless, the ‘Cosby Present’ had not come to fruition,” he mentioned. “Media ought to vet these girls extensively.”
Final yr, 9 girls additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to Cosby in Nevada. Every girl accused the comic of sexual battery, assault, and abuse between 1979 and 1992, some in Las Vegas resorts. The ladies claimed Cosby “drugged or tried to drug” every of them.
In 2022, a Los Angeles jury awarded awarded $500,000 to a girl who mentioned Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.
Lasha, who’s alleging sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor, battery, assault, infliction of emotional misery and false imprisonment, is in search of compensatory and punitive damages, in keeping with the swimsuit.