{"id":172084,"date":"2022-12-30T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bill-cosby-plans-to-tour-in-2023-amid-new-sexual-assault-case-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T01:38:07","slug":"bill-cosby-plans-to-tour-in-2023-amid-new-sexual-assault-case-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bill-cosby-plans-to-tour-in-2023-amid-new-sexual-assault-case-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby plans to tour in 2023 amid new sexual assault case : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Cosby, who was convicted in 2018 of sexually assaulting a woman, plans to start touring next year. The news comes just weeks after five women filed another sexual assault lawsuit against the 85-year-old comedian.<\/p>\n

Cosby’s publicist and crisis manager, Andrew Wyatt, told NPR on Thursday that the tour is tentatively scheduled to occur “roughly around spring, summer or late summer” of 2023. <\/p>\n

“We have so many \u2014 I mean, hundreds of thousands of supporters just asking for him to do a show,” Wyatt said. “We have so many promoters across the country. He is in high demand.” <\/p>\n

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Nearly 60 women originally came forward to accuse Cosby of sexually assaulting them in recent years, following the #MeToo movement. The national movement \u2014 which sought to hold abusers in the entertainment industry accountable for sexual harassment and assault \u2014 led to a sexual assault trial against Cosby. <\/p>\n

In 2018, a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually violating a woman in his Cheltenham, Pa., home in 20o4. He was sentenced to at least three years, but in 2021 Cosby was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his conviction.<\/p>\n