An additional female documents intercourse abuse lawsuit against Cosby, NBC

A female who alleges Invoice Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comic-actor, NBCUniversal and other firms Friday in New York, where 5 other girls filed a equivalent lawsuit previously this month.

Stacey Pinkerton states she was a 21-12 months-aged flight attendant and product that 12 months when she statements Cosby drugged her at a cafe in Illinois and took her back again to a hotel space in Chicago. The lawsuit alleges Cosby “engaged in pressured sexual intercourse” with her whilst she was incapacitated from the medicines.

The lawsuit arrives a lot more than a yr soon after Cosby still left prison just after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned. Earlier this 12 months, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a female who mentioned Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was a teenager in 1975.

Pinkerton suggests the alleged assault came immediately after she had achieved Cosby in New York and he promised to assist her vocation. She suggests she experienced a position in an episode of “The Cosby Show” on NBC, but did not surface in the last edit.

Months just after the alleged assault, Pinkerton explained Cosby invited her to his clearly show at a Chicago theater, exactly where she claims he forcefully kissed and touched her.

“Cosby engaged in the same or very similar sample of conduct with his victims,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit states, “including expressing desire in advancing their occupations, providing them roles on The Cosby Exhibit, using The Cosby Clearly show and its filming places as a suggests to accessibility, isolate, sexually harass, and sexually assault girls, employing drugs to incapacitate his victims, and forcibly partaking in sexual functions with them without having their consent.”

The lawsuit alleges that NBC, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Tv really should have known Cosby was a risk to women and failed to shield Pinkerton from him.

Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt claimed Friday night time that Cosby “continues to vehemently deny all allegations waged from him and seems ahead to defending himself in courtroom.”

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“As we have usually mentioned, and now The usa can see, this is not about justice for victims of alleged sexual assault, it is ALL ABOUT Funds,” Wyatt wrote in an electronic mail to The Related Press. “We feel that the courts, as perfectly as the court of community impression, will abide by the guidelines of legislation and minimize Mr. Cosby of these alleged accusations.”

Reps of NBCUniversal, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Carsey-Werner Television did not straight away reply to requests for comment Friday night time. All 3 companies were being associated in the output of “The Cosby Exhibit,” Pinkerton’s lawsuit mentioned.

The lawsuits by Pinkerton and the 5 other women were filed under New York’s a person-calendar year window for grownups to file sexual abuse issues for allegations that had fallen outside the statute of constraints to sue.

Cosby served approximately a few years in jail in advance of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his conviction, obtaining that he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition about the come upon only after believing he experienced immunity from prosecution. The trial judge and an intermediate appeals court had identified no proof of this kind of immunity.

Seven other accusers received a settlement from Cosby’s insurers in the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction above a defamation lawsuit they had filed in Massachusetts. Their lawsuit reported that Cosby and his brokers disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.