Bill Cosby sued for alleged 1986 sexual assault of teen in Las Vegas hotel

Disgraced comic Invoice Cosby is being accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a young person in 1986 in a brand new civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court docket in Las Vegas. 

That is the newest lawsuit in opposition to the previous “Cosby Present” star, who has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by greater than 60 ladies. He has denied all allegations. 

Cosby, 86, was one of many first main celebrities convicted of sexual assault within the #MeToo period and spent practically three years at a state jail close to Philadelphia earlier than a better courtroom threw out his conviction and launched him in 2021, stunning prosecutors and his accusers.

In line with the newest lawsuit, Cosby befriended Chelan Lasha when she was 15 after Cosby noticed an image of her on her stepmother’s desk and he provided to assist along with her modeling profession. Lasha was one in every of 5 accusers who testified at Cosby’s sexual assault trial in 2018.

When Cosby visited the household’s house in North Las Vegas, he would hand out Jello pudding pops to children within the neighborhood, the go well with claims. Then, when Lasha was 17 years previous, Cosby requested her to go a collection on the Las Vegas Hilton, the place Lasha labored on the bell desk, to have knowledgeable photographer take headshots, in accordance with the go well with. 

The photographer took photographs of Lasha after which Cosby requested her to moist her hair and placed on a gown, the go well with says. She did whereas sporting a skort and a tank high beneath, in accordance with the go well with. After the photographer left, Cosby provided Lasha a blue capsule he mentioned was an antihistamine, to assist her along with her sinus points as a result of she had been blowing her nostril, together with a glass of Amaretto, the go well with says. 

“(Lasha) took the tablet as Cosby had instructed as a result of she trusted him and thought he was an excellent man. She by no means imagined that he was going to drug her and sexually assault her,” the go well with says. 

After operating strains with a vocal coach, Cosby gave her one other glass of Amaretto and stored asking her if she was okay, in accordance with the go well with. When she sat down on a sofa, he started rubbing her shoulders and informed her she wanted to put down, the go well with says. 

“He took her down a hall to a bed room and laid Plaintiff down on a mattress. Cosby lay subsequent to Plaintiff. Plaintiff right now realized that she couldn’t transfer. Her eyes have been open and she or he was conscious of what was taking place however she couldn’t do something about it,” in accordance with the lawsuit.

“Cosby began touching Plaintiff’s breasts and nipples and was humping on her leg and grunting. Then Plaintiff felt Cosby ejaculating on her leg,” the lawsuit claims. 

Lasha then handed out and wakened groggy to Cosby repeatedly clapping his fingers, saying: “Daddy says get up,” in accordance with the lawsuit. Lasha seen she was bare below her gown, the go well with says. 

“She was conscious that Cosby had had intercourse along with her. The plaintiff by no means consented to having intercourse with Cosby. She had been a virgin previous to this assault,” in accordance with the lawsuit. 

Cosby then informed her to dress and depart, and handed her a stack of $100 payments as he escorted her to the elevator, the go well with says. 

After she obtained house, Lasha informed her sister and a good friend what had occurred, in accordance with the go well with. She additionally seen blood stains in her underwear, the go well with mentioned. “Cosby known as Plaintiff on the telephone a few days later and requested Plaintiff how she was doing. She mentioned she was not doing properly and she was crying. Cosby then mentioned people who speak an excessive amount of could be quieted,” in accordance with the lawsuit. 

Quickly after, Lasha was “black-balled” from the leisure trade, the go well with claims. The traumatic incident ended up affecting the remainder of Lasha’s life, the go well with says. 

“She ended up having a downward spiral in her life and suffered many long-term issues, together with drug habit and different pathologies,” in accordance with the lawsuit. “The sexual assault has had lifelong damaging impacts on Plaintiff’s life, because it set her down a deleterious path and has tormented her ever since. She nonetheless breaks down crying about it to this present day, and can probably achieve this for the remainder of her life, or at least till she will get some justice and closure with Cosby dealing with accountability for his wrongful actions in opposition to her.”

Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s publicist, mentioned in an announcement on Thursday that the comic had no remark, however added: “Through the 2018 trial, throughout cross examination, Ms. Lasha acknowledged below oath, ‘Dr. Huxatable raped and drugged me.’ Nonetheless, the ‘Cosby Present’ had not come to fruition. Media ought to vet these ladies extensively.”

Final yr, 9 ladies additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to Cosby in Nevada. Every lady accused the comic of sexual battery, assault, and abuse between 1979 and 1992, some in Las Vegas motels. The ladies claimed Cosby “drugged or tried to drug” every of them.

In 2022, a Los Angeles jury awarded awarded $500,000 to a lady who mentioned Cosby sexually abused her on the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.

Lasha, who’s alleging sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor, battery, assault, infliction of emotional misery and false imprisonment, is searching for compensatory and punitive damages, in accordance with the go well with.