Bill Cosby is being sued by nine women who are accusing the actor of using his “enormous power, fame, and prestige” to isolate and sexually assault them.
On Wednesday (June 14), a sexual assault lawsuit against Cosby was filed in the U.S. District Court of Nevada by Janice Dickinson, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Janice Baker Kinney, Lili Bernard, Heidi Thomas, Linda Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Cooper, Pam Joy Abeyta, and Angela Leslie, per NBC News.
Andrew Wyatt, a spokesperson for Cosby, claimed the women were motivated to sue due to their “addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed.”
“From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts … against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,” Wyatt said in a statement.
Their lawsuit comes weeks after Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed off on SB129, which eliminated the civil statute of limitations in adult sex abuse cases. Before the bill became law, adults in the state only had two years to bring their cases forward in court.
Lublin, one of the nine women suing Cosby, advocated for the new legislation that made the latest lawsuit possible. She has publicly alleged that Cosby drugged her in 1999 after she met him in a hotel room to evaluate her acting. Cosby later dragged her into a bedroom and assaulted her, according to the suit.
The other women in the suit alleged similar instances where Cosby drugged them before raping them.
Their lawsuit follows another suit filed earlier this month in California by former Playboy model Victoria Valentino, who also accused the Cosby Show alum of drugging and raping her after the two ran into each other at a restaurant in 1969. Cosby has been publicly accused of sexually abusing over 60 women and has denied all allegations.
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