Bill Cosby sex abuse lawsuit: Christopher Tayback take over as Attorney

Bill Cosby is parting ways with his longtime legal pit bull Marty Singer.

The disgraced comedian filed court paperwork last week saying Christopher Tayback will take over as his lead attorney in the high-profile sex abuse lawsuit brought by Judy Huth in Los Angeles.

 

Huth, 57, sued Cosby last December claiming he lured her to the Playboy Mansion and assaulted her in 1974 when she was a naïve 15-year-old high school student.

Tayback is a former Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles and Assistant United States Attorney.

He's also the son of Brooklyn-born actor Vic Tayback, who played diner owner Mel Sharpels on the hit CBS sitcom "Alice" from 1976 to 1985.

Singer, meanwhile, is a prominent Hollywood lawyer who counts Angelina Jolie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods and Kim Kardashian as past clients.

"It's correct, our firm substituted out of the case," Singer told the Daily News on Tuesday.

"We're happy to assist in the transition of the cases to the new attorneys," he said, signaling that he's handing off other pending matters as well.

Singer declined to say what caused the break-up, citing attorney-client privilege.

It was earlier this month that Huth's lawyer Gloria Allred deposed Cosby on the east coast after Singer tried to thwart the sit-down.

Known as an aggressive advocate who regularly goes after the media, Singer has defended Cosby against an avalanche of accusations in recent months.

More than 50 women have stepped forward – most of them since last November – to say the "Fat Albert" star sexually abused them over his decades-long reign as a TV legend and "America's Dad."

Many of the women claim Cosby drugged them into submission.