Actor and comedian Bill Cosby was released from prison in 2021 after a court overturned his conviction on sex crimes. He has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by at least 60 women. Listen: Bill Cosby Conviction Overturned: Court TV Podcast
A woman who worked as a stand-in at “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s is suing Bill Cosby, saying he drugged and sexually abused her. More
November 22, 2023
Victoria Valentino is suing Cosby under a new California law that suspended the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims. More
June 1, 2023
The lawsuit alleges that each woman was abused or assaulted by Bill Cosby after meeting him on set or social circles in the late 1960s-1990s. More
December 8, 2022
Jurors at a civil trial found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. More
June 22, 2022
In video testimony played for jurors at a civil trial, Bill Cosby denies sexually abusing a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s. More
June 8, 2022
The "Donkey Kong defense" came into play Monday at a civil trial over sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, as his attorney pressed a key witness over previous statements that she had played the arcade game during a visit with Cosby to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, six years before its release. More
June 6, 2022
A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and kissed her. More
June 3, 2022
“She said Bill Cosby had tried to have sex with her,” said the first witness in a Los Angeles County civil trial stemming from Judy Huth's lawsuit against Cosby. More
June 2, 2022
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Cosby is again facing sex abuse allegations in court as a civil trial begins in California. More
June 1, 2022
Bill Cosby will again be the defendant in a sexual assault proceeding, this time a civil case in California. Judy Huth alleges that in 1975 when she was 16, Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion. More
May 31, 2022
The high court declined prosecutors' request to hear the case and reinstate Cosby's conviction. More
March 7, 2022
A lawyer for Bill Cosby asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sex assault case. More
February 4, 2022
Bill Cosby's 2008 sexual assault conviction was overturned and his immediate release ordered. What does this mean for sexual assault victims? More
January 20, 2022
Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. More
November 30, 2021
Bill Cosby accuser artist Lili Bernard filed suit over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City New Jersey before the state's two-year window to file older sexual assault claims expires. More
October 14, 2021
Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are arguing a court decision that freed Bill Cosby from prison backs up tossing out her sex trafficking case. More
July 6, 2021
Why was Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction thrown out by Pennsylvania's highest court, and what's next in the case? More
June 30, 2021
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. More
June 30, 2021
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actor Bill Cosby won’t be paroled this year after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would resist the treatment programs and refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing even if it means […] More
May 28, 2021
Pennsylvania's highest court is considering whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of drugging and assaulting women is a pattern. More
December 1, 2020
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby’s legal team prepared for trial in his stunning sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court quietly heard a death row inmate’s appeal. Lawyers for Charles Hicks questioned whether three women who said he had beaten and choked them in Texas should […] More
November 30, 2020
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A newly released prison mug shot shows Bill Cosby smiling with a disposable mask hanging off his face. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recently updated Cosby’s mug shot, something routinely done to document changes to inmates’ appearance as they age. Cosby’s new photo was taken Sept. 4. Cosby, 83, was convicted […] More
October 20, 2020
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear Bill Cosby’s appeal of his felony sex assault conviction on Dec. 1. Cosby, 83, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term. A lower appeals court had upheld his conviction, but the state’s high court agreed this year to review two key issues in the […] More
October 8, 2020
Legal advocates have joined both sides of the argument as Bill Cosby's appeal heads to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. More
September 15, 2020
In an appeals filing, Bill Cosby's attorneys argued it was 'fundamentally unfair' to let prosecutors use a damaging deposition. More
August 11, 2020
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private. U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno had another word for it. […] More
July 6, 2020
Comedian Bill Cosby filed an appeal Thursday of a court decision last month that upheld his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home. The latest appeal — filed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which does not have to take the case — focuses on four key trial issues, including the judge’s […] More
January 9, 2020
BY MARYCLAIRE DALE | ASSOCIATED PRESS Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. In its ruling, the Superior Court upheld the right of prosecutors to call other accusers to bolster their case — the […] More
December 10, 2019
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby says he’s prepared to serve his 10-year maximum sentence for sexual assault rather than show remorse for a crime the comedian says he didn’t commit. Cosby is serving three to 10 years in a state prison near Philadelphia after a jury last year convicted him of sexually assaulting a Temple […] More
November 27, 2019
When three Pennsylvania Superior Court judges gather Monday to hear Bill Cosby’s appeal of his sexual assault conviction, more than the aging comedian’s freedom may be at stake. As the first celebrity convicted in the #MeToo era, the court scrutiny of the case could cement — or threaten — the movement itself. “If it’s reversed, […] More
August 12, 2019
