New legal problems for comedian Bill Cosby. A California jury, in fact, found him guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. According to reports Bbc, Judy Huth, testified in the civil trial that Cosby, now 84, had forced her to perform a sexual act on him when she was 16. According to jurors, Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact to the girl, who he reasonably knew was under the age of 18, driven by an unnatural and abnormal sexual interest in her child.
Huth had accepted the invitation of Cosby, at the time already a famous actor, to join him in Hefner’s villa but she did not expect that the comedian, who in those years starred in films with Sydney Poitier and Richard Pryor, would force her to an unwanted sexual act for which Cosby will now have to pay half a million dollars in damages. The verdict helps to demolish once again the image of the former good father of the “Bill Cosby Show“(In Italy it came out with the title”I Robinson”). Huth had entered the field in 2014, but in addition to her, the Los Angeles verdict gives satisfaction to the dozens of women who over the years have told the same story about Cosby: flattered and lured in the bedroom, drugged or induced to drink. until you lose consciousness and then attacked.
For the actor, a heavy legal defeat that comes almost a year after the annulment of his conviction in Pennsylvania for sexual assault and his subsequent release from prison. The Huth trial was one of Cosby’s latest proceedings after his insurer reached a settlement with the alleged victims of several other cases. Many women, at the time of the first trial, had not been able to be heard because they had not come forward at the time of the events, but in the case of Judy Huth the possibility of putting Cosby in front of his responsibilities was admitted because in 1975 he was a minor and he had sued before a civil court.
Bill Cosby was never present in court and did not testify: jurors were shown a video of his 2015 deposition in which he denied having had any sexual contact with Huth. The actor continues to call himself innocent through his lawyer and his press officer.