on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cTell me again how cancel culture has gone too far?\u201d<\/p>\nCosby was released in 2021 after nearly three years in prison when Pennsylvania’s state supreme court overturned his conviction. His spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, confirmed to Variety that the comedian was \u201clooking\u2026 to start touring\u201d in either the spring or summer.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, five women \u2013 including the Cosby Show actors Lili Bernard and Eden Tirl \u2013 filed a civil lawsuit in New York claiming Cosby \u201csexually abused or assaulted\u201d them.<\/p>\n
Bernard, Tirl and another plaintiff, Cindra Ladd, have previously spoken out about Cosby’s alleged behavior. They are joined in the suit by Jewel Gittens and Jennifer Thompson. The lawsuits were filed during a one-year \u201clook-back\u201d window allowing for the filing of sexual abuse complaints that otherwise might have been beyond key deadlines known as statutes of limitation.<\/p>\n
The plaintiffs allege that Cosby either raped them or forced them into sexual acts. Four of the date from the late 1980s or 1990s, when The Cosby Show aired on NBC.<\/p>\n
NBC, along with Kaufman Astoria Studios and the Carsey-Werner Company, is named in the complaint that alleges the companies had \u201cfacilitated the assault of women\u201d by failing to check Cosby’s power and proclivities, failed to protect the women from being alone with him and profited from his work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was well known Bill Cosby would regularly take young women into his dressing room,\u201d said a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jordan Rutsky. He said \u201cthere were instances where staff saw this happening and even encouraged the petitioner to submit\u201d.<\/p>\n
The fifth allegation involves Cindra Ladd, a former Hollywood executive who has accused Cosby of raping her in 1969 when she was 21. Ladd has said Cosby drugged and raped her.<\/p>\n
Cosby’s spokesperson said: \u201cMr Cosby continues to vehemently deny all waged against him and looks forward to defending himself in court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cosby was released from prison after Pennsylvania’s top appeals court overturned his conviction having found that a statement the comedian had made in a civil deposition should not have been used in criminal proceedings.<\/p>\n
In March, the US supreme court turned away a bid by Pennsylvania prosecutors to reinstate Cosby’s conviction. The court said without elaborating that it had declined to hear the appeal.<\/p>\n
Jurs in a civil trial in Los Angeles in June found Crosby liable for the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. They awarded Judy Huth, 64, $500,000 after finding that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with the teenager, whom he reasonably believed was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n