Bill Cosby Admission About Quaaludes Offers Accusers Vindication
So after all the accusations and denials, the truth is finally revealed about Bill Cosby’s lifetime of raping young women, who were unfortunate enough to cross his path. Bill Cosby Admission About Quaaludes Offers Accusers Vindication
The answer as to how he got away with it for so long, lies in his skill of slipping a Methaquolone pill, otherwise known as a Quaalude, into a drink he would give them. It would render them helpless to escape his subsequent sexual assault. Of course, he had also built a persona of America’s Grandpa, that was the ultimate deception.
I first heard about quaaludes (‘ludes) in college in the 60’s. Apparently, he did as well! The word was that if you could slip one into a girl’s drink, she would be more compliant than otherwise. The records show that Cosby had multiple prescriptions filled at least throughout the 70’s, then apparently, subsequently found other sources. It became his “MO” and many women his victim.
But that game is over now, most likely for the duration of his life!
As with most abusers, Cosby felt he had a way to evade the light from shining on what he was up to. He thought he was safe and would never get caught, but If accused, he could claim it was consensual. It is what all abusers think, regardless of the form that abuse takes, and sometimes it can work for a long while. But when the light finally does shine and reveals the truth, the rule is that the longer the perpetrator got away with their nasty deceptions, the deeper the hole they will have dug for themselves.
Epstein escaped via suicide. I think they’ll be keeping a close eye on Bill!
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Bill Cosby Admission About Quaaludes Offers Accusers Vindication
By Graham Bowley and Ravi Somaiya July 7, 2015
She was 19 and visiting her mother when, Therese Serignese recounted later, she met Bill Cosby in the gift shop at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1976.
Mr. Cosby invited her to his show, and then backstage afterward where he gave her some pills. Her next memory, she said, was of feeling drugged and being sexually assaulted.
Last November, days after Ms. Serignese went public with that accusation, Mr. Cosby’s representative deplored the molestation claims that were spiraling against him as “unsubstantiated, fantastical stories.”
But on Tuesday, Ms. Serignese and many of the women, speaking themselves or through representatives, said they felt vindicated by Mr. Cosby’s admission in a newly released court record that he had obtained quaaludes to give young women with whom he wanted to have sex.
It was an acknowledgment, the first to become public, that Mr. Cosby viewed powerful, sedating drugs as part of his sexual encounters with women.
“Mr. Cosby branded them a liar,” said Joseph Cammarata, who is representing Ms. Serignese and two other women in a defamation suit against the entertainer. “This testimony, at least as it relates to Therese Serignese, seems to tell a different story.”
Sexual Assault Cases Against Bill Cosby
The entertainer was freed from prison in 2021, but accusations that he was a sexual predator have continued to trail him.
- Criminal Conviction: In 2018, a jury found Cosby guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home near 14 years earlier.
- His Release From Prison: After the conviction was overturned on the grounds that prosecutors violated Cosby’s rights by reneging on a promise not to charge him, Cosby was released from prison on June 30, 2021.
- Civil Trial: In 2022, a jury in California sided with Judy Huth, who had accused Cosby of molesting her in 1975, when she was a teenager, at the Playboy Mansion. Huth was awarded $500,000.
- New Cases: In 2023, Cosby was sued by Victoria Valentino, a former Playboy model who says Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her more than 50 years ago. Nine women have accused Cosby of sexual assault in Nevada two months after the state changed its statute of limitations for civil cases involving that crime.
The disclosure was contained in a court record unsealed Monday by a federal judge in Philadelphia, part of a civil case brought in 2005 by Andrea Constand, who had been a staff member with the basketball program at Temple University, Mr. Cosby’s alma mater. Ms. Constand accused Mr. Cosby of drugging and molesting her in a case that was later settled.
The unsealed document includes Mr. Cosby, under questioning, admitting to having obtained seven prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s. He testified under oath that he had given the sedative to at least one woman, who appears to be Ms. Serignese, and “other people.”
“When you got the quaaludes,” asked Dolores M. Troiani, the lawyer for Ms. Constand, “was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?”
Mr. Cosby replied, “Yes.”
In the records, Mr. Cosby, now 77, did not admit drugging unwitting women. When asked if the women had known they were taking the quaaludes, Mr. Cosby’s lawyer abruptly cut off the questioning. And Mr. Cosby suggested in his answers that the pill taking and sex had been consensual.
“I meet Ms. (redacted) in Las Vegas,” said Mr. Cosby in the 2005 deposition cited in a memorandum of law filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. “She meets me backstage. I give her quaaludes. We then have sex.”
The name of the woman Mr. Cosby cited in his testimony was redacted. But the discussion in the court record closely tracks the encounter described by Ms. Serignese. She said Tuesday she could not comment because of her pending litigation. In the past she has said that nothing about the episode was consensual, that she only took the pills because Mr. Cosby was an authority figure and she felt frightened and compelled.
Until the accusations piled up last year, Mr. Cosby had been one of America’s most beloved comedians, after a long career that included stand-up, a hit NBC sitcom and commercials for Jell-O. In the twilight of his career, he was preparing a comedy special to be available on Netflix, and NBC was exploring a return to prime time for its former star. Both projects were canceled in the wake of the accusations.
In a further setback, Disney World said it would remove a bronze statue of Mr. Cosby, The Orlando Sentinel reported on Tuesday, citing a Walt Disney World spokeswoman.
Gloria Allred, a lawyer who represents several of the women who say they were molested, said release of the testimony bolsters the position of the more than two dozen women who have come forward in the last year to accuse Mr. Cosby of raping or molesting them, beginning in the mid-1960s, some of them claiming that he drugged them first.
“This admission is one that Mr. Cosby has attempted to hide from the public for many years, and we are very gratified that it is now being made public,” Ms. Allred said.
Mr. Cosby has denied the assault accusations, and he has never faced criminal charges. His publicist, David Brokaw, had no comment on Tuesday night. Whoopi Goldberg was among those who stood by Mr. Cosby, saying during a broadcast of “The View” on Tuesday: “Save your texts, save your nasty comments. I don’t care. I say this because this is my opinion, and in America, still, I know it’s a shock, but you actually were still innocent until proven guilty.”
Ms. Constand has not spoken about her case since it was settled in 2006. Ms. Troiani declined to comment, citing a confidentiality stipulation that she said was part of the settlement agreement in the case.
Ms. Constand had accused Mr. Cosby of giving her what he described as an herbal medication before molesting her. In his deposition, Mr. Cosby said he gave her three half-pills of Benadryl, an allergy medication.
But Ms. Constand’s lawyer appeared unsatisfied with his explanation during the questioning.
The records from the Constand case were released following a request by The Associated Press. Mr. Cosby and his legal team had fought the request. “It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” his lawyer, George M. Gowen III, argued last month.
But in deciding to release the documents, Judge Eduardo Robreno of United States District Court said he was guided by the sense that Mr. Cosby had fashioned himself as a moral guide with pronouncements that offered “his views on, among other things, child-rearing, family life, education and crime.”
“The stark contrast between Bill Cosby, the public moralist, and Bill Cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct is a matter as to which The A.P. — and by extension the public — has a significant interest,” the judge wrote in a memorandum issued Monday.
Serge F. Kovaleski contributed reporting.
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Bill Cosby Admission About Quaaludes Offers Accusers Vindication
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So after all the accusations and denials, the truth is finally revealed about Bill Cosby’s lifetime of raping young women, who were unfortunate enough to cross his path. The answer as to how he got away with it for so long, lies in his skill of slipping a Methaquolone pill, otherwise known as a Quaalude, into a drink he would give them. It would render them helpless to escape his subsequent sexual assault. Of course, he had also built a persona of America’s Grandpa, that was the ultimate deception.I first heard about quaaludes (‘ludes) in college in the 60’s. Apparently, he did as well! The word was that if you could slip one into a girl’s drink, she would be more compliant than otherwise. The records show that Cosby had multiple prescriptions filled at least throughout the 70’s, then apparently, subsequently found other sources. It became his “MO” and many women his victim. But that game is over now, most likely for the duration of his life! As with most abusers, Cosby felt he had a way to evade the light from shining on what he was up to. He thought he was safe and would never get caught, but If accused, he could claim it was consensual. It is what all abusers think, regardless of the form that abuse takes, and sometimes it can work for a long while. But when the light finally does shine and reveals the truth, the rule is that the longer the perpetrator got away with their nasty deceptions, the deeper the hole they will have dug for themselves. Epstein escaped via suicide. I think they’ll be keeping a close eye on Bill!