A woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her more than five decades ago was awarded $19.2 million by a Southern California civil jury Monday, an attorney for the plaintiff said.
Punitive damages are still pending in the 2023 lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica by Donna Motsinger, who accused him of sexual battery, alleging that he abused a server whom he met at a Northern California restaurant in 1972.
Cosby, 88, denied the allegations. In a statement, a former representative for Cosby said he was “deeply saddened” by the verdict, which he said sets a dangerous precedent “to allow decade-old allegations, presented without evidence or proof, to stand.”
According to the lawsuit, Motsinger said she met Cosby at the Sausalito restaurant where she worked. He followed her home, the suit alleges, and asked her to attend one of his stand-up acts at a theater south of
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