Bill Cosby Admitted Drugging For Sex

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby in sworn testimony unsealed Monday admitted that he gave now-banned sedative quaaludes to at least one of the women accusing him of sexual assault and to unnamed others. His lawyer interfered before he could answer deposition questions in 2005 about how many women were given drugs and whether they knew about it.

"If today's report is true, Mr Cosby admitted under oath 10 years ago sedating women for sexual purposes," said Lisa Bloom, attorney for model Janice Dickinson, who contends she was drugged and raped. "Given that, how dare he publicly vilify Ms Dickinson and accuse her of lying when she tells a very similar story?"

The AP had gone to court to compel the release of a deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand - the first of a cascade of lawsuits against Cosby that have severely damaged his image. His lawyers objected to the release, arguing it would embarrass him.

TRNS reports the judge said it wasn't about Cosby as a private person. "Rather [Cosby] has donned the mantle of public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education and crime." "He has voluntarily narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim."

Cosby, 77, has been accused by around 40 women of sexual misconduct in episodes dating back more than four decades. He's never been charged with a crime, and the statute of limitations on most of the accusations has expired. He settled Constand's lawsuit under confidential terms in 2006.