BILL COSBY’S WIFE HAS rejected sex assault allegations against her husband of a half-century, saying the man being accused by at least 15 women of drugging and having sex with them is “a man I do not know.”
In a statement issued yesterday, Camille Cosby dismissed accusations that date back as far as the late 1960s.
She suggested that her husband, not the women, is the party being harmed.
“None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim,” she said.
But the question should be asked – who is the victim?
Cosby is being sued for defamation by one alleged victim and for sexual battery by another woman who says he forced her to perform a sex act when she was 15.
He has never been charged in connection with any of the accusations, and his lawyers deny many of the allegations. He settled with a Pennsylvania woman who in a 2005 lawsuit said Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004.
“The (Rolling Stone) story was heart-breaking, but ultimately appears to be proved to be untrue. Many in the media were quick to link that story to stories about my husband – until that story unwound,” she said.
Noting that she married Cosby in 1964, a year after they met, she said, “The man I met, and fell in love with, and whom I continue to love, is the man you all knew through his work.
He is a kind man, a generous man, a funny man, and a wonderful husband, father and friend. He is the man you thought you knew.
The statement, released by Cosby spokesman David Brokaw, is the first public comment from Camille Cosby since the renewed allegations began.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for a woman who says Bill Cosby sexually abused her when she was 15 stated in a recent court filing that he has interviewed two witnesses who corroborate her story.
Attorney Marc Strecker wrote in a sworn declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday that he has reviewed photographs of his client, Judy Huth, with Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s, the place and time she says the abuse happened.
Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer is seeking to dismiss Huth’s suit and has called it an extortion attempt. He says Huth tried to sell her story to a tabloid 10 years ago and contends that undercuts her claim of recently discovered psychological damage. Singer did not return a phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment Monday.
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