Janice Dickinson Says She Was Raped by Bill Cosby
Janice Dickinson says Bill Cosby drugged her wine and raped her after promising to help her with her career in the 1980's, detailing the assault in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight.
The model and TV personality told Entertainment Tonight she was in rehab when Cosby reached out to her and offered to fly her to his home in Lake Tahoe. After dinner, he gave her a glass of wine and what she thought was a pain pill.
"The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man," she tells ET. "... Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs."
Dickinson says she never confronted Cosby, but the two did communicate through their attorneys when she tried to write about the assault, telling ET his legal team pressured her and her publisher, HarperCollins to remove it from her 2002 autobiography.
A New York woman also reportedly came forward Tuesday to discuss Cosby's alleged proclivities—Radar Online reports a 66-year-old woman wrote a public Facebook post about an unsettling run-in with the comedian in the 1970s.
When I was 19 years old I lived in Los Angeles and worked at a restaurant called Café Figaro, which was part owned by Bill Cosby. He used to come in from time to time and one day he offered me a ride home … I accepted.
Instead, he drove out to the beach and opened a briefcase filled with assorted drugs and kept offering me pills "to relax," which I declined. He began to get sexually aggressive and wouldn't take 'No' for an answer. I freaked out and demanded to be taken home.
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