Bill Cosby has been found guilty by jurors in a civil trial of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
In 2018, he was jailed for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004, but his conviction was overturned on a legal technicality almost a year ago. Following Huth’s legal win, a spokesperson for Cosby, Andrew Wyatt, said the actor’s team plans to appeal the decision. In legal filings and court testimony, Huth said she and a friend had met Cosby, then aged 37, at a park, and that they were invited by him to the Playboy Mansion.
A jury in California found Tuesday that entertainer Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion almost five decades ago.
They also argued that Huth originally claimed the attack happened in 1974 when she was 15, but later said it had happened the following year. Judy Huth, now aged 64, was awarded $500,000 in damages after the jury in Santa Monica determined that Cosby had molested her in 1975 when she was just 16 years old. A jury in California found Tuesday that entertainer Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion almost five decades ago.
The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favour of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her £407000. | ITV National News.
Ms Huth’s friend Donna Samuelson, a key witness, took photos at the mansion of Ms Huth and Cosby, which loomed large at the trial. "But what happened today wasn't a victory - they did not get the punitive damages." "You hear how the thugs that they brought to this courtroom are today," Mr Wyatt added.
Bill Cosby was found guilty of sexually assaulting Judy Huth, by a civil jury after a two week trial. Huth had accused Cosby of assaulting her while she was ...
Cosby was released from prison last June following the reversal of his conviction in the Andrea Constand case. The lawsuit said that after asking her to sit down, he began to sexually assault her without getting her permission. Cosby was seated on the bed when she returned.
Jurors found that the entertainer intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Judy Huth when she was a teenager.
“To be ripped apart, you know, thrown under the bus and backed over. Ms Huth testified that in a bedroom adjacent to a game room where the three had been hanging out, Mr Cosby attempted to put his hand down her pants, then exposed himself and forced her to perform a sex act. “It’s been torture,” she said of the seven-year legal fight.
A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ...
She told jurors she recently concluded that she had been mistaken about the year and now believes it happened in 1975. The jury did not rule entirely in Huth's favor. Three other women who have accused Cosby of abuse attended the trial and told reporters they felt vindicated by the verdict. After she emerged from a bathroom, Cosby took her hand and used it to masturbate his penis, she said. Those reports helped stir up memories of her encounter with Cosby, Huth said and triggered four years of anxiety and other symptoms. Judy Huth had testified that the comedian invited her and a friend to the mansion when she was 16, and he was 37 and forced her to perform a sex act.
First coming forward with the accusations in 2014, Huth is joined by several other women who have also come forward alleging sexual assault from the formerly ...
Cosby was released from prison last year, with the former entertainer teasing a comeback comedy tour before it was hastily called off. Back in 2017, a woman named Andrea Constand accused Bill Cosby of similar crimes, with the case ending in a mistrial after he was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Though it ended in a mistrial, the lawsuit resulted in a three-year stint in prison for Cosby.
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The complainant had filed a lawsuit in 2014 stating that the comedian sexually abused her in the Playboy Mansion when she was 16.
He had served just under three years in jail. The woman had filed a lawsuit against Cosby in December 2014. “To be ripped apart, you know, thrown under the bus and backed over. “It has been torture,” she said of the seven-year legal fight. The original filing said that the assault took place in 1974 when the complainant was 15, but the timeline was later revised to 1975 when she was 16. The complainant had filed a lawsuit in 2014 stating that the comedian sexually abused her in the Playboy Mansion when she was 16.
The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500000.
Chelan Lasha, who testified against Cosby in the Pennsylvania case, was in tears. “He’s a boogey man, he’s a sexual predator, he’s a deviant,” Lasha said. He pointed out to jurors that Samuelson said “games like Donkey Kong” when she first mentioned it in her deposition. “To be ripped apart, you know, thrown under the bus and backed over. The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000. “It’s been torture,” Huth said of the seven-year legal fight.
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What made Huth’s civil suit unique is that she was allegedly a minor at the time of the incident. “Her coming forward inspired others to find their voices,” Berhard said outside the court. The comedian has been sued by several other women over the past few years, 11 of whom agreed to settlements. Cosby was not present in Los Angeles for the most recent trial, having invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. In Huth’s original 2014 complaint, she said the former comedian intentionally inflicted emotional distress and sexually assaulted her when she was just 16 years old. He has already served just under three years in a Pennsylvania prison after being convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault in 2018 before his conviction was overturned on appeal.
Judy Huth was just 16-years-old when she was invited to the Playboy Mansion by Cosby. It was here that he forced himself on the teenager and proceeded to ...
“We are proud of Ms. Huth and our victory against Bill Cosby. The jury found that Cosby had intentionally caused harmful sexual conduct with Huth, that he knew she was under the age of 18, and that his behaviour was motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor Judy Huth was just 16-years-old when she was invited to the Playboy Mansion by Cosby. It was here that he forced himself on the teenager and proceeded to sexually assault her.
A California civil jury found Bill Cosby liable for sexually assaulting Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was just 16 years old.
In her lawsuit against Cosby, Constand claimed that when she was an administrator with the Temple University women’s basketball team in 2004, Cosby—whom she said she regarded as a mentor—drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Cosby has consistently denied all accusations against him, maintaining that all of his sexual encounters have been consensual. When she emerged, he asked her to sit down on the bed with him and proceeded to molest her, the lawsuit claimed. The lawsuit went on to state that when Huth needed to go to the bathroom, Cosby directed her to a bathroom in a bedroom suite.
A spokesperson for Bill Cosby calls the verdict of Judy Huth's trial an "astonishing victory," yet says he will appeal the jury's decision.
In the alternative, it may be that that the $3 million amount is what Mr. Cosby had to spend to hire countless lawyers over the years in his unsuccessful effort to defend himself from Ms. Huth’s lawsuit.” “Within a few weeks, Attorney Jennifer Bonjean will be in Judge Craig D. Karlan court to appeal the $500,000 verdict, which means that Ms. Huth will never receive a payday from Mr. Cosby and her estimated mounting legal bills ($3 million plus dollars) with Allred, Maroko & Goldberg will be outstanding for many years to come,” the statement continues. “The Cosby’s are thankful to those particular jurors who removed their bias and ruled on the evidence and facts of this case.” On Tuesday, the jury found Cosby liable of sexually abusing Huth as a teen, but did not award her punitive damages. “Mr. Cosby’s spokesperson appears to be trying to snatch victory from the jaws of Mr. Cosby’s significant defeat,” Allred tells Variety. “Ms. Huth has no legal bills for fees with my law firm. Allred continues, making a reference to an old interview Cosby did with Oprah: “Many years ago, Mr. Cosby said on the news, ‘Believe a child when she says someone is fondling her.’ The jury in Ms. Huth’s case demonstrated that they believed her by awarding her $500,000 in compensatory damages.
Bill Cosby will appeal the civil verdict that saw him ordered to pay $500000 to a woman he allegedly sexually assaulted almost five decades ago, ...
"The jurors decided to grant Judy Huth with a $500,000 verdict but voted 9-3 in favor of not rewarding Ms. Huth any punitive damages." "Yesterday actor and comedian Bill Cosby was awarded an astonishing victory by jurors in a civil trial brought by Judy Huth," spokesman Andrew Wyatt said, according to Variety. Despite the ruling, a spokesman for the veteran entertainer said the case was an "astonishing victory" for Cosby, and insisted the actor would appeal.
Yesterday, a civil jury found that disgraced comedian Bill Cosby sexually abused Judy Huth when she was 16 years old in 1975. In the wake of the verdict, ...
“The Cosbys are thankful to those particular jurors who removed their bias and ruled on the evidence and facts of this case.” In the alternative, it may be that that the $3 million amount is what Mr. Cosby had to spend to hire countless lawyers over the years in his unsuccessful effort to defend himself from Ms. Huth’s lawsuit.” “Within a few weeks, Attorney Jennifer Bonjean will be in Judge Craig D. Karlan court to appeal the $500,000 verdict, which means that Ms. Huth will never receive a payday from Mr. Cosby and her estimated mounting legal bills ($3 million plus dollars) with Allred, Maroko & Goldberg will be outstanding for many years to come,” the statement says. “Mr. Cosby’s spokesperson appears to be trying to snatch victory from the jaws of Mr. Cosby’s significant defeat,” Allred tells Variety. “Ms. Huth has no legal bills for fees with my law firm. Despite the “victory,” Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean plans on appealing the verdict, stating Huth will “never receive a payday.” It’s strange to consider a verdict which confirms Cosby sexually assaulted a minor as any sort of victory.
A California jury in a civil case has ruled that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ordered ...
Three other women who have accused Cosby of abuse attended the trial and told reporters they felt vindicated by the verdict. Those reports helped stir up memories of her encounter with Cosby, Ms Huth said, and triggered four years of anxiety and other symptoms. A California jury in a civil case has ruled that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.