Bill Cosby Deposition - Dozens of women have publicly accused famed comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault. He also has never been criminally charged and has vehemently denied the wrongdoing. But the 78-year-old funnyman actually detailed his sexual rendezvous in a court deposition a decade ago.
Based on a 2005 Bill Cosby deposition published by The New York Times, the comedian admitted hiding his relationships outside of his marriage to wife Camille by writing off cheques. According to New York Daily News, Cosby admitted he had sex with former Temple University employee Andrea Constand and wrote her a cheque to fund her college education.
In the deposition, Bill Cosby also confessed about giving Benadryl to Constand to relieve stress and then had sex with her; he also strongly claimed the sex was consensual.
"I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything," Cosby said about the tryst he had with Constand. "And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped."
Bill Cosby also admitted making a $5,000 payment to Therese Serignese, who accused the television personality of sexually assaulting her backstage after a 1976 Las Vegas show. However, Cosby's testimony was in contrast to the claims.
"She meets me backstage," he nonchalantly stated. "We then have sex... I think she may very well have been very happy to be around the show business surroundings."
Furthermore, Bill Cosby appeared casual about his affairs, which included drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women over the past four decades, in a transcript of a 2005 deposition taken in Philadelphia, ABC News noted. He also retold the incidents of how he tried to gain women's trust and make them comfortable by talking about personal stuffs such families, education and career ambitions.
"We had sex and we had dinners and sex and rendezvous," he described one of his relationships. Then he continued, "I think I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them."
Bill Cosby also sworn in the deposition that he received about seven prescriptions for Quaaludes from a Los Angeles doctor in the '70s. He admitted obtaining the drugs with the intention of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, CNN reported. However, he denied giving women the powerful sedatives without their knowledge.
"Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case," he said.
Meanwhile, Barbara Bowman, who claimed to be a sexual assault victim of Bill Cosby in the '80s, said she was relieved by the deposition. But she was disgusted by Cosby's claim in the documents that the sex was consensual.
"It makes me sick, and it sends a very wrong message about what consent really means," Bowman said. "Consent is not the absence of a 'no.' And when you put drugs and alcohol in the mix, and put a person into a state of impairment and incapacitation where they're not able to respond in a normal setting, it's manipulative. It's diabolical. It's controlling. And it's typical behavior and thinking of a sociopath."
At this point, there's no definite evidence in Bill Cosby's deposition that he committed a sex crime. He has also never been charged with a misconduct. And in most cases, the edict of restrictions has run out except for the 2008 case, which is still under investigation in Los Angeles.
