Los Angeles (USA), (EFE).- Nine women filed a lawsuit for sexual assault in a district court in Nevada (USA) against the comedian Bill Cosby, who in 2018 was the first celebrity jailed for sexual abuse in the era of “Me too”.
Cosby (85 years old), who was released from prison in 2021 after a court annulled his conviction, would have used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to stay alone and sexually assault the victims, according to the lawsuit filed this Wednesday. and picked up by the American press a day later.
According to the plaintiffs’ account, the actor, also drugged and drunk and then sexually assaulted them in different cases that occurred between 1979 and 1992 inside houses, dressing rooms and hotels located in the cities of Las Vegas and Reno (Nevada, USA). .), as well as in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe.
This lawsuit comes weeks after Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo signed a bill that eliminated the two-year deadline for adults to report cases of sexual abuse.
A modification that is included within the so-called “retrospective laws”, which have also been applied in states such as New York, where in December five other women denounced the comedian after opening the possibility for victims of sexual crimes to go to the Justice even if the cases had prescribed.
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“Interestingly, these ‘look-back windows’ are opening only in states where many of Mr. Cosby’s plaintiffs reside. You have to ask yourself: Who is financing them and the legislators?”, wielded the spokesman for the protagonist of “The Cosby Show”, Andrew Watt, in statements to Variety after learning about the new lawsuit.
In June of last year, a California court, under another law that suspended the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits, found Cosby guilty of sexually assaulting a minor in 1975 in one of the rooms of the well-known Mansion. Playboy (Los Angeles, California).
More than 60 women have denounced inappropriate conduct throughout the career of Bill Cosby, who went to prison in 2018 for sexually abusing Canadian Andrea Constand, becoming the first celebrity to be jailed in the “MeToo” era.
Cosby was released in 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction for a previous civil settlement in which he compensated the victim.
After his release from prison, the comedian had expressed his intention to perform in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and also intended to lead a campaign for “justice reform” and the “prison system” based on his own experiences.