The decision removes the curtain on one of the latest cases filed against the 84-year-old actor, who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment.
Cosby was convicted in September 2018 of serving a prison sentence for drug use and the sexual assault of a woman named Andrea Kostand in 2004, but last year the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that decision because of due process and he was released.
Cosby did not attend court hearings that began two weeks ago in a court in Santa Monica.
Prior to this trial, Hot alleged that the actor, who for years played an exemplary father on The Cosby Show, raped him in 1975 at the home of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner when he was 16 years old. old. old.
He explained that he met Cosby on the set of the film, and after filming, he invited him to his tennis club and forced him to drink a lot of alcohol before taking him to the residence of the founder of Playboy magazine (known as “The Playboy Mansion). ”) And attacked him.
Cosby’s attorneys, on the other hand, denied any of their client’s attacks and questioned the plaintiff’s claims, beginning with his statement by insisting that the facts took place in 1974.
The trial for this case was limited to civil law rather than criminal because the plaintiff did not go to the police to report it until the law’s time limit for doing so had expired.
Notice that Cosby denies that he raped Hoth or any young woman, emphasizing that all of his intercourse was consensual.
Source: Al-Akhbar
