A Montgomery County jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, who was a Temple University employee he had mentored. After the monumental decision was announced, Constand's lawyer Dolores Troiani said in a publicized statement that while ...
Going before reporters on Thursday, accuser Lili Bernard celebrated the verdict alongside other Cosby accusers. The beloved TV dad was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia home in 2004. Cosby faces a ...
In one note that the accuser alleges came from Richardson, the author says he wishes he could rub the former employee's feet, spread lotion on her body, and adds, "I regret I have never been able to give you pleasure." A photo of a second note shows that the author asked the woman how she viewed ...
From joy and relief to well wishes for other survivors, the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault throughout the years said they finally felt hope after a jury delivered a guilty verdict Thursday. Cosby was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his Pennsylvania home ...
On Thursday, while celebrating that a jury found the famed comedian guilty on three counts of indecent assault, Bill Cosby accuser Lili Bernard hailed the verdict as a "victory for womanhood." Flanked by her supporters outside the courthouse, an impassioned Bernard said, "I stand here in the spirit of ...
"I feel like I'm dreaming," said Lili Bernard, one of Cosby's accusers, outside the courthouse Thursday. "Can you pinch me?" she said, holding out her arm to a reporter. "I feel like my faith in humanity is restored." In a press conference, Bernard evoked Martin Luther King Jr., saying, "The arc of the moral ...
Bill Cosby's legal team attempted to use "Rape Culture 101" tactics to discredit his accuser in court, but the guilty verdict handed down Thursday demonstrates that the days of blaming women for the sexual violence and crimes of famous men are coming to a close. And the law seems to be on women's ...
Of the more than 60 women who accused the once-beloved comic of drugging, raping, and abusing them, Constand had the only case for which the statute of limitations had not run out, which left her battling in a Pennsylvania courtroom not only for herself but on behalf of all of his accusers last summer, ...
Lili Bernard, an actor who worked with Bill Cosby and was one of his accusers broke down after the verdict came in: guilty. Shortly before 2 p.m., a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby, 80, guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The once revered and now deleterious actor could die in prison.
After the guilty verdict was read, audible gasps could be heard in the courtroom. Bernard and her friend Caroline Heldman left the room and collapsed onto a railing, Bernard sobbing as Heldman embraced her. Longtime Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino was also seen in tears embracing Heldman.
