More bad news for Bill Cosby with new allegations
Another day, another set of new allegations against Bill Cosby, this time from actress Michelle Hurd, best known from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and from a former model.
Hurd is not accusing him of rape but she said on her Facebook page that he behaved "inappropriately" toward her, and she knows of another woman who was allegedly drugged by Cosby.
Her post has since disappeared. But Showbiz411 found it on Friday, as did The Wrap.
"LOOK, I wasn't going to say anything, but I can't believe some of the things I've been reading, SO here is MY personal experience," she began. "I did stand-in work on The CosbyShow back in the day and YES, Bill Cosby was VERY inappropriate with me."
She said she had lunch in his dressing room daily, and was subjected to "weird acting exercises where he would move his hands up and down my body, (can't believe I fell for that)," she said.
He told her not to tell anyone because other actors would become jealous.
"Then fortunately, I dodged the ultimate bullet with him when he asked me to come to his house, take a shower so we could blow dry my hair and see what it looked like straightened. At that point my own red flags went off and I told him, 'No, I'll just come to work tomorrow with my hair straightened.' "
She talked to another stand-in actress and compared notes.
"Turns out he was doing the same thing to her, almost by the numbers, BUT, she did go to his house and because I will not name her, and it is her story to tell, all I'll say is she awoke, after being drugged, vomited, and then Cosby told her there's a cab waiting for you outside.
"I have ABSOLUTELY no reason to lie or make up this up!"
Former model Jewel Allison told The Daily News that in the late 1980s Cosby invited her to dinner at his home, where he poured her a possibly drugged glass of wine and forced her to fondle him before putting her — sick and vomiting — in a cab.
"We may be looking at America's greatest serial rapist that ever got away with this for the longest amount of time," Allison told The Daily News. "He got away with it because he was hiding behind the image of Cliff Huxtable....There's no such thing as America's Dad. There's just a man named Bill Cosby. He's a very sick sociopath."
So far, no response from Cosby or his camp to the latest accusations, but he's largely refused to comment for weeks ever since old allegations he was a serial rapist resurfaced. By the count of various news media, including The Washington Post, the number of women who have accused Cosby is nearing 20.
Among them is Kristina Ruehli, 71, who told CNN on Monday that Cosby gave her cocktails, which she believes contained drugs, during a 1965 visit to his home. She worked as a secretary for a talent agency that had Cosby as a client, and was invited to his home to celebrate a taping of Hollywood Palace. Ruehli says she and an unnamed actress were the only attendees at the party.
She says she lost consciousness after consuming drinks, and later woke up to find Cosby attempting to force her mouth onto his pubic area. She said she pulled away to vomit and drove herself home. It was the last time she would see Cosby, she told CNN.
She said she wanted to tell her story, her "15 minutes of — not fame — shame," to help other potential victims.
"I don't like to see these other women who have had similar experiences called liars and be trashed in the media, when I know that I can speak for them," Ruehli said. "And the second reason, is to encourage others…there may be dozens or hundreds of other victims."
Another accuser, a former aspiring actress named Renita Chaney Hill, 47, added her name to the list, telling Pittsburgh's CBS affiliate KDKA that she was just a teen when Cosby cast her in his educational TV show, Picture Pages, in the late 1980s. She said he flew her to different cities to meet him in his hotel room and when she arrived, he gave her drinks.
"I always thought it was odd that after I had this drink I would end up in my bed the next morning and I wouldn't remember anything," she said.
"One time, I remember just before I passed out, I remember him kissing and touching me and I remember the taste of his cigar on his breath, and I didn't like it," she said. "I remember another time when I woke up in my bed the next day and he was leaving, he mentioned you should probably lose a little weight. I thought that odd, how would he know that?"
She became so uncomfortable with him she cut off contact after she turned 19.
Meanwhile, a former employee of NBC Entertainment came forward over the weekend to claim he regularly brought young women to Cosby's dressing room in Brooklyn and was asked to send money to multiple women over the years.
He said he didn't and doesn't know what went on behind the door or why he was sending thousands of dollars a month to women, but he has an idea now.
"I felt like a pimp,'' Frank Scotti, 90, said in an interview on NBC's Today on Monday. "Every time he had somebody I had to watch, I had the girl stay there. I felt dirty. ... I just felt, you know, he's not the person I thought he was.''
Cosby's Hollywood lawyer, Martin Singer, did issue a response to NBC on Scotti's allegations. "It appears that his story is pure speculation so that he can get his 15 minutes of fame,'' Singer said.
Cosby himself has said little as the accusations continue to pile up.
"I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos," the 77-year-old comedian and actor told Florida Today backstage at his show Friday night in
So far, Cosby's career has been severely damaged by the allegations, with at least a half-dozen projects and performances cancelled. The latest, reported by the AP on Monday, is a January 31 gig at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. No reason was given.
And TheGreen Bay Press-Gazette reported that Cosby's scheduled April 12 show at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has been canceled. The announcement from the university did not give a reason, and a request for further comment was declined.
But Cosby's performance in Florida on Friday was sold out (he got standing ovations), and his website shows at least two-dozen upcoming appearances through May 2015, including Nov. 29 in Yakima, Wash.
