Trio makes new claims of Cosby sex assault
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Three more women, including a former Mrs America, have come forward to accuse US comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
The women spoke at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, tearfully recalling their encounter with the disgraced comedian and how he allegedly abused them.
The three join dozens of other women who have come forward in recent months claiming sexual abuse by the television legend.
Lisa Christie, a former Mrs America, said she met Cosby when she was an 18-year-old aspiring model and actress, and for two years he flew her back and forth to New York and Buffalo but never tried anything as “he knew that I was a virgin and raised Christian.”
But then, she said, the comedian tried to pressure her into having sex.
She said when she refused his advances, Cosby, now 78, warned that she would never make it in the business unless she slept with him.
“I responded ‘shame on you Mr Father Figure of America,’ your kids are older than I am,” Christie said.
Pamela Abeyta said she met Cosby in 1979, when she was 25 and hoping to appear in Playboy magazine.
She said Cosby invited her to Las Vegas where she stayed in a separate bedroom at his penthouse hotel suite.
She said she believes someone put something in her drink when she attended a show with Cosby and his pals. Abeyta said she passed out at some point and woke up in the comedian’s bed.
Sharon Van Ert said she met Cosby when she worked as a waitress at a California jazz club in 1976 and he offered to walk her to her car one day.
She said she remembers Cosby “getting fresh” with her and rubbing her leg before she passed out.
“The next thing I remember was waking up in my car, my head hanging down from the seat, alone,” she said. “I knew I was drugged because I threw up and I never threw up or drank too much.”
The women’s testimony at the offices of celebrity attorney Gloria Allred comes just a week before the disgraced comedian is set to give a deposition in a separate sexual assault case. That case involves a woman who alleges Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15.
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