Bill Cosby Faces Rape Suit From Longtime Accuser Victoria Valentino Over Alleged 1969 Attack

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Almost a decade after Victoria Valentino first accused Bill Cosby of drugging and raping her, the former Playboy model is finally taking the man once known as America’s Dad to court. “This case is about a prominent actor and comedian who used his notoriety and status to sexually assault an up-and-coming young female artist,” says the civil lawsuit for sexual assault and sexual battery filed today in LA Superior Court over the alleged 1969 attack (read it here). “Defendant William ‘Bill’ Cosby utilized his power and authority over Plaintiff to sexual assault Plaintiff.

Plaintiff has suffered severe emotional, physical, and psychological distress because of the sexual assault,” the jury trial seeking action adds. “Plaintiff brings this action to hold Defendant Cosby accountable for the harm he has caused her.” A frequent attendee to Cosby’s criminal trials in Pennsylvania in 2017 and 2018 over the rape of onetime Temple University employee Andrea Constand, Valentino went public in 2014 with her tale of being attacked by Cosby decades before.

Seeking a variety of damages, Valentino’s lawyers Jeff Anderson and Mick Ruck were able to file today’s graphic suit against Cosby, his agents, assistants and others under a recent California law lifted the statute of limitations on civil sex assault cases.

That law is set to expire at the end of this year. Describing a “late 1969” dinner at Sneaky Pete’s steakhouse with a friend and Cosby not long after the drowning of Valentino’s six-year-old son, the plaintiff’s suit goes into detail about what happened after the women took some pills provided by the comedian and the trio went to his LA office to “show them his awards”: Cosby brought Plaintiff and her friend to a second floor