One was an aspiring actress, the other a flight attendant.
Both were naive and starstruck when Bill Cosby invited them for dinner
and drinks — and both joined the legion of women now accusing America’s
Dad as being an unapologetic sexual predator.
The women, joining some three dozen other Cosby accusers, went public
Thursday with very similar tales of degradation after decades of living
with their secrets.
“He made me kneel down,” said Elizabeth, the flight attendant, a
small-town Illinois woman of 20 when she met Cosby on a coast-to-coast
flight in 1976.
“I don’t want to repeat what happened next,” the woman said at a
Manhattan news conference. “All I know is this was the most horrifying
thing that could ever happen to a young woman.”
She had arrived for dinner to find an already-poured glass of sake that
Cosby encouraged her to drink. She blacked out, and awoke in a Los
Angeles hotel room with Cosby naked except for a robe.
The comedian, once the sexual encounter was done, sent her home in his Rolls Royce, the woman recalled.
“I was throwing up,” she said. “The driver told me, ‘You’re not the first one.’”
Cosby sent her three dozen roses, but she rebuffed his continued advances.
Charlotte Fox was an extra in the 1974 Cosby film “Uptown Saturday
Night,” where the funnyman co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Harry
Belafonte.
Cosby invited the 23-year-old actress to a jazz club where he jammed
with the band, and then brought her to the Playboy Mansion for a late
dinner and drinks.
She soon felt woozy and sick, and then woke up naked in a bed inside the Holmby Hills estate of Hugh Hefner.
“There was Mr. Cosby crawling from the bottom of the bed,” she said. “I
was incapacitated, and I couldn’t say no. He engaged in sexual activity
with me. It was not consensual.”
He left Fox alone to find her way home, and then “looked right through
me” when their paths crossed again on the movie set, the actress
recalled.
Cosby has repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual misconduct.
Three other women have claimed that Cosby assaulted them inside the
mansion, while a former Playboy Bunny claimed Cosby drugged and raped up
to a dozen women working as Bunnies.
Cosby is facing an Oct. 9 deposition in a civil lawsuit charging that
he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at the mansion in 1974.
“We expect to hear answers directly from Mr. Cosby, who will not be
able to hide behind his attorneys and apologists,” said high-powered
attorney Gloria Allred, who joined the two women at the news conference.
Allred said the tales of other women accusing Cosby of drugging and
sexually abusing them led the two victims to add their voices to the
growing chorus.
“They want the world to know what they allege they were forced to
suffer because they had the misfortune to meet a man they admired and
thought they could trust — Bill Cosby,” she said.
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