Bill Cosby

A Los Angeles jury found embattled comedian Bill Cosby liable in a civil case brought by Judy Huth, a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her as a ...

From there, Huth alleged, the comedian invited them to a house where he served the young women multiple alcoholic drinks and then took them to the Playboy Mansion. In her complaint, Huth told of meeting Cosby at a park where he was filming a movie. Huth first filed the case in 2014, claiming sexual battery and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

El comediante, de 84 años, ha sido señalado desde la década 1960 por violencia sexual y conducta inapropiada.

Fue puesto en libertad después de cumplir casi tres años. El comediante no estaba obligado a comparecer en persona en el juicio y nunca lo hizo, pero el tribunal vio una declaración de 2015 de los abogados de Huth, en la que Cosby afirmó que no la recordaba y que no habría tenido relaciones sexuales con un menor. La demanda de Huth establecía que Cosby la llevó junto a otra persona menor de edad a la mansión, y en un dormitorio la forzó a tener un acto sexual.

Los miembros del jurado leerán el veredicto en el juicio de una mujer del sur de California, que demandó al actor por presunta agresión sexual en la Mansión ...

Comenzó con una nota al juez sobre lo que llamó un “problema de personalidad” entre dos de los miembros del jurado que dificultaba su trabajo. Pero tuvo que cambiar de rumbo cuando aparecieron los agentes del juzgado de Santa Mónica y le pidieron que despejara la sala del tribunal. “Nunca haría nada para poner en peligro este caso. Una pregunta fue sobre cómo calcular los daños. Después de llamarlos a la sala del tribunal y lograr que acordaran que todos los miembros del jurado serían escuchados en las discusiones, los miembros del jurado continuaron, pero tenían una ráfaga constante de preguntas sobre problemas con su formulario de veredicto que el juez y los abogados tenían que discutir y responder. El juez Craig Karlan, quien le había prometido a uno de los miembros del jurado que podría irse después del viernes para cumplir un compromiso previo, decidió, a pesar de las objeciones de los abogados de Cosby, aceptar y leer el veredicto sobre las preguntas que el jurado había respondido.

The first civil case over sex crimes to go to trial against the man formerly known as America's Dad may finally have reached a conclusion.

Sentenced to up to 10 years behind bars by a Pennsylvania judge in 2018 after a second trial for the rape of past Temple University employee Constand, Cosby saw his conviction tossed out in June 2021. The judge had promised to respect that deadline, meaning an alternate was seated with the other 11 jurors as of Monday. It also meant that the new-ish jury “will have to start from scratch,” in Karlan’s words. At first identifying the date of the alleged incident as having occurred in 1974 and more recently shifting the time to 1975, an emotional Huth provided vivid details of the alleged sexual assault by Cosby during her testimony. Indicating pretty strongly that the decision was running against Cosby, the only question left unanswered by the jurors was if the accused acted with “malice, oppression or fraud,” in which case punitive damages could be awarded to Huth. “But please bear in mind that you have to hold Mr. Cosby wholly and completely accountable for the harm he did.” Huth, who first sued Cosby in 2014 for sexual battery and two other claims, alleges that the previously incarcerated comedian assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s when she was 16. Third, I want to thank my partners Nathan Goldberg and John West for being exceptional litigators and trial lawyers in this case, and I want the world to know that I feel blessed that they have both been my law partners for so many decades. Fourth, I want to thank all of the women who spoke out over the years, and refused to be silent in the face of what they believed to be injustice and sexual abuse by powerful men. Huth initially claimed the attack occurred in 1974, when she was 15, but later the plaintiff shifted the date to 1975, when she would have been 16. “That amount will not cover the legal bills and we will be appealing that matter. The plaintiff alleged that the assault by Cosby occurred at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-’70s when she was a teenager. With his 2018 sex crimes conviction for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in June 2021, the 84-year-old Cosby is almost certain to appeal today’s verdict, sources tell me.

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. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

El jurado del condado de Los Ángeles emitió el veredicto a favor de Judy Huth, que ahora tiene 64 años, y le otorgó $500,000.

Comenzó con una nota al juez sobre lo que llamó un “problema de personalidad” entre dos de los miembros del jurado que dificultaba su trabajo. Pero tuvo que cambiar de rumbo cuando aparecieron los agentes del juzgado de Santa Mónica y le pidieron que despejara la sala del tribunal. “Nunca haría nada para poner en peligro este caso. Una pregunta fue sobre cómo calcular los daños. Después del almuerzo, la abogada de Cosby, Jennifer Bonjean, solicitó la anulación del juicio debido a una foto tomada por un miembro del equipo de Cosby que mostraba a un miembro del jurado de pie muy cerca de un acusador de Cosby que había estado sentado entre la audiencia y observando el juicio. El juez Craig Karlan, quien le había prometido a uno de los miembros del jurado que podría irse después del viernes para cumplir un compromiso previo, decidió, a pesar de las objeciones de los abogados de Cosby, aceptar y leer el veredicto sobre las preguntas que el jurado había respondido.

Jurors at the civil trial ruled in favor of Judy Huth who accused the comedian of forcing her to perform a sex act in 1975 at 16 years old.

The trial took place nearly a year after the actor was freed from prison in Pennsylvania, when his conviction on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting another woman were overturned. Cosby, who did not appear in person at the trial, denied the allegation. The decision brings to a close one of the final remaining legal claims against 84-year-old Cosby, who more than 50 women have accused of sexual assaults over nearly five decades.

El jurado en el juicio civil de Bill Cosby concluyó que el comediante abusó de una menor de 16 años en la mansión de Playboy en 1975.

El jurado ya había llegado a la conclusión de casi todas las preguntas que se le entregó en el formato de veredicto, incluyendo si Cosby había abusado de Huth y si ella merecía una indemnización, el viernes, tras dos días de deliberaciones. Señaló al jurado que Samuelson dijo “juegos como ‘Donkey Kong’” cuando lo mencionó primero en su declaración. Los abogados de Cosby estuvieron de acuerdo en que Cosby conoció a Huth y a una amiga suya en un set de filmación en el sur de California en abril de 1975, y que unos días después él las llevó a la mansión de Playboy. Para mí es una gran victoria”. “Ser desgarrada, arrojada sobre el autobús y vuelta a arrollar. El jurado en el juicio civil contra Bill Cosby concluyó el martes que el comediante y actor abusó sexualmente de una adolescente de 16 años en la mansión de Playboy en 1975.

The jurors' decision is a major legal defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer once hailed as America's dad.

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Ms. Huth, who accused Mr. Cosby of sexually assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16, was awarded $500000. Here are updates from the verdict.

At trial, Ms. Huth described a lifetime of bouts of anxiety and depression after her encounter with Mr. Cosby in 1975. She testified that she was 14 years old when she met Mr. Cosby at a tennis tournament in Palm Desert in 1975, and said that he invited her to the set of the film “Let’s Do It Again” in Los Angeles with the promise of being an extra. “My next memory was foggy, but I was in a bed naked and Bill Cosby was naked, inside me,” said Ms. Shapiro, who had come forward with her accusations in 2015. Ms. Huth testified at the trial that Mr. Cosby took her hand and forced her to perform a sex act on him. Later that day, they went to the Playboy Mansion where they played pinball together in the game room, she said, and he offered her a pill after she lost. But the conviction was overturned last year by the justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the grounds that Mr. Cosby’s due process rights had been violated. Mr. Cosby has denied that he sexually assaulted Ms. Huth, or any of the other women who have come forward in recent years to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Ms. Bonjean noted that Ms. Huth had changed her recollection of when the episode took place. But even though they stayed, Ms. Huth said she was preoccupied, only going through the motions and thinking about what had happened in the bedroom. To deflect him, Ms. Huth said, she told Mr. Cosby she was on her period. But Ms. Huth’s suit was able to move forward because the jury agreed she was a minor at the time, and California law extends the time frame in which people molested as children can file a civil claim. It was taken by Ms. Samuelson, Ms. Huth told the court, 15 minutes before, she said, Mr. Cosby molested her.

Bill Cosby was found by a Los Angeles County civil jury that he sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

Cosby, now 84, had only served two out of the 3-10-year prison sentence he initially received. The AP added, “[The decision] comes nearly a year after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction for sexual assault was thrown out and he was freed from prison. Per the Associated Press (AP), “The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000.

Santa Mónica, California — El jurado en el juicio civil contra Bill Cosby concluyó el martes que el comediante y actor abusó sexualmente de una adolescente ...

El jurado ya había llegado a la conclusión de casi todas las preguntas que se le entregó en el formato de veredicto, incluyendo si Cosby había abusado de Huth y si ella merecía una indemnización, el viernes, tras dos días de deliberaciones. Huth testificó que en una habitación contigua a una sala de juegos donde los tres se habían divertido, Cosby intentó poner su mano en los pantalones de ella, después se expuso y la obligó a tener contacto sexual. Los abogados de Cosby estuvieron de acuerdo en que Cosby conoció a Huth y a una amiga suya en un set de filmación en el sur de California en 1975, y que unos días después las llevó a la mansión de Playboy.

Un jurado de Los Ángeles encontró responsable al comediante Bill Cosby en un caso civil presentado por Judy Huth, una mujer que afirmó que él la agredió ...

Desde 2005, más de 50 mujeres se han presentado para acusar a Cosby de agresión sexual. Desde allí, alegó Huth, el comediante las invitó a una casa donde les sirvió a las jóvenes múltiples bebidas alcohólicas y luego las llevó a la Mansión Playboy. Huth presentó el caso por primera vez en 2014, alegando agresión sexual e imposición de angustia emocional tanto intencional como negligente.

Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt chided protesters outside a courthouse after the entertainer was found guilty of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl in a civil ...

Allred, who has represented 33 of Cosby's accusers, vowed that he could "still face other consequences in the justice system" while previewing the Huth case. Cosby, 84, had served nearly three years when he was released from prison in June 2021. Real victims don't get out here and scream over the media when we gave you the ultimate respect." "We will always stand on that mountaintop of professionalism, no matter what. "We have stood forthright on the mountaintop of professionalism," he continued. Cosby was ordered to pay Huth $500,000, although no punitive damages were awarded.

Civil trial jurors rule in favor of Judy Huth who accused comedian of forcing her to perform a sex act in 1975 when she was 16.

The trial took place nearly a year after the actor was freed from prison in Pennsylvania, when his conviction on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting another woman were overturned. Cosby, who did not appear in person at the trial, denied the allegation. That is a huge win.”

Towards the end of his passionate remarks, a reporter asked Wyatt a direct question: “The jury found that Cosby did sexually abused Judy Huth. What do you say ...

“It’s an important message to other survivors of child sexual abuse that you can sue, even decades after you were sexually abused as a child,” Allred said. Bill Cosby's team spoke to press after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 16-year-old in 1975. (In court on Monday, Wyatt was murmuring that Allred was “exploiting Black people” and called her comments about Juneteenth “racist.”) “We’re not dealing with this,” Wyatt echoed, only to scurry back to the podium to answer more questions. “There is no other case that I’m aware of where someone like Ms. Huth obtained justice 47 years after the fact. Looking at a woman who was shouting at him, Wyatt said, “We will let her scream to the public because she’s not relevant. It just shows the level of people that Gloria Allred seems to go after: people who are not really victims. “The victory was ours because we got to disclose and show what this woman was all about,” Wyatt said, speaking of Huth. “There was no win here. We’re upset,” one woman shouted as Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt tried to address the news media. A handful of Cosby survivors, who previously testified against him in criminal trials, were present throughout the trial this month. “Bill Cosby is guilty!” a woman yelled, shouting over Cosby’s team at the podium and brandishing him a “serial rapist” in light of the disgraced comedian’s reckoning with sexual assault allegations from dozens of women. The jury ordered Cosby to pay her $500,000 in damages.

Bill Cosby's felony sex-assault charges may have been overturned by a Pennsylvania court last year, but on June 21 the former TV dad was found liable in a ...

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.

El comediante y actor abusó sexualmente de una adolescente de 16 años en la mansión de Playboy en 1975.

El jurado ya había llegado a la conclusión de casi todas las preguntas que se le entregó en el formato de veredicto, incluyendo si Cosby había abusado de Huth y si ella merecía una indemnización, el viernes, tras dos días de deliberaciones. Señaló al jurado que Samuelson dijo “juegos como ‘Donkey Kong’” cuando lo mencionó primero en su declaración. Los abogados de Cosby estuvieron de acuerdo en que Cosby conoció a Huth y a una amiga suya en un set de filmación en el sur de California en abril de 1975, y que unos días después él las llevó a la mansión de Playboy. “Ser desgarrada, arrojada sobre el autobús y vuelta a arrollar. Para mí es una gran victoria”. Durante su testimonio, la abogada de Cosby Jennifer Bonjean cuestionó en múltiples ocasiones a Huth y a Samuelson por errores en los detalles de sus declaraciones, y la similitud de sus versiones, lo que según la abogada representaba una coordinación entre ambas mujeres.