Bill Cosby said he got drugs to give women for sex: APNewsBreak

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APNewsBreak: Cosby said he got drugs to give women for sex
By MARYCLAIRE DALE

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

That woman and a second woman testified in the same case that they knowingly took quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.

The AP had gone to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby's lawyers had objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.

Cosby settled that lawsuit under confidential terms in 2006. His lawyers in the Philadelphia case did not immediately return phone calls Monday. Constand consented to be identified but did not want to comment, her lawyer said Monday.

Cosby, 77, has been accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many that he drugged and raped them in incidents dating back more than four decades. Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.

Cosby, giving sworn testimony in the lawsuit accusing him of sexual assaulting Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2005, said he got seven quaalude prescriptions in the 1970s. The lawyer for Constand asked if he had kept the sedatives through the 1990s — after they were banned — but was frustrated by objections from Cosby's lawyer.

"When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked.

"Yes," Cosby answered on Sept. 29, 2005.

"Did you ever give any of these young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?"

Cosby's lawyer again objected, leading Troiani to petition the federal judge to force Cosby to cooperate.

Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved. The two other women who testified on Constand's behalf said they had knowingly been given quaaludes.

Three of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them have a defamation lawsuit pending against him in Massachusetts. They allege that he defamed them when his agents said their accusations were untrue. Cosby is trying to get their case thrown out before discovery.

Cosby had fought the AP's efforts to unseal the testimony, with his lawyer arguing the deposition could reveal details of Cosby's marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.

"It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out," lawyer George M. Gowen III argued in June. He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser's lawyer nearly a decade ago.

"Frankly ... it would embarrass him, (and) it would also prejudice him in eyes of the jury pool in Massachusetts," Gowen said.

U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno asked last month why Cosby was fighting the release of his sworn testimony, given that the accusations in the Temple woman's lawsuit were already in the public eye.

"Why would he be embarrassed by his own version of the facts?" Robreno said.

Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-07-07

[theguyfromanotherforum]

All around a nice guy.

[wirat69]

I learned two new words today....a brand name "Quaaludes" and Methaqualone!!

[NickJ]

Decades known as a family entertainer. A Doctorate in Education. It's one of those cases where the guilty hid right in front of everybody using his reputation/popularity as his shield.What a pig.

[gigman]

Just how many and how often young woman are under influence of different drugs just for social purposes. ..

Some just counting on better life by getting closer to better life...

No one knows how they change their mind of events from the past.

This days even to pay for the sex could be risky...Anyone can be accused of wrong doing later.

Why "victims" often wait so long if they feel abused???

Why there is so often in courts when comes to settlement every sixth case is based on child molesting etc....???

When things comes to money ugly things start to appear. ..

I think era of being a single suits best for the male....but still not safe...

[peterb17]

Am I the only one?

I have not got a clue who this person is?

Yet this seems to be worldwide news.

America the hub of prescription drug abuse- give me a decent 'E' any day!

[Thakkar]

Just how many and how often young woman are under influence of different drugs just for social purposes. ..

Some just counting on better life by getting closer to better life...

No one knows how they change their mind of events from the past.

This days even to pay for the sex could be risky...Anyone can be accused of wrong doing later.

Why "victims" often wait so long if they feel abused???

Why there is so often in courts when comes to settlement every sixth case is based on child molesting etc....???

When things comes to money ugly things start to appear. ..

I think era of being a single suits best for the male....but still not safe...

Here's a tip. If you are so socially clueless and inept that you don't know the difference between consensual sex and non consensual sex, then, when in doubt, do without.

T

[freebyrd]

Denial and subsequent admission - it's beginning to sound rather like "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"......

[Eagleizer]

Am I the only one?

I have not got a clue who this person is?

Yet this seems to be worldwide news.

The Cosby Show, which have aired all over the world many years ago:

(I just picked this on random, so might not be any interesting to watch.)

He was the role model for how to have a harmonic family with this series,

or something like that. That adds to the tragedy of this story, and also the

interest for it.

Cheers

[MaeJoMTB]

Just how many and how often young woman are under influence of different drugs just for social purposes. ..

Some just counting on better life by getting closer to better life...

No one knows how they change their mind of events from the past.

This days even to pay for the sex could be risky...Anyone can be accused of wrong doing later.

Why "victims" often wait so long if they feel abused???

Why there is so often in courts when comes to settlement every sixth case is based on child molesting etc....???

When things comes to money ugly things start to appear. ..

I think era of being a single suits best for the male....but still not safe...

Here's a tip. If you are so socially clueless and inept that you don't know the difference between consensual sex and non consensual sex, then, when in doubt, do without.

T

I used to think I knew the difference between consensual and non-consensual sex.

(and almost every sexual encounter I ever had involved, alcohol, drugs or both)

But now I'm not so sure, and thinking a lot of guys are in the same position as me.

Do without, great idea, but most of these cases are from the past when we thought we knew.

[lostoday]

Just how many and how often young woman are under influence of different drugs just for social purposes. ..

Some just counting on better life by getting closer to better life...

No one knows how they change their mind of events from the past.

This days even to pay for the sex could be risky...Anyone can be accused of wrong doing later.

Why "victims" often wait so long if they feel abused???

Why there is so often in courts when comes to settlement every sixth case is based on child molesting etc....???

When things comes to money ugly things start to appear. ..

I think era of being a single suits best for the male....but still not safe...

Here's a tip. If you are so socially clueless and inept that you don't know the difference between consensual sex and non consensual sex, then, when in doubt, do without.

T

I used to think I knew the difference between consensual and non-consensual sex.

(and almost every sexual encounter I ever had involved, alcohol, drugs or both)

But now I'm not so sure, and thinking a lot of guys are in the same position as me.

Do without, great idea, but most of these cases are from the past when we thought we knew.

I don't date women who drink or do drugs. Almost none of my sexual encounters involved drugs or alcohol (except for my blue pills).

[ddavidovsky]

There's no way this sort of thing should be actionable - the psychology involved is way too fuzzy.

Most of these cases seem to involve 'much-loved' celebrities - they certainly are not aware they are doing anyone any harm.

In these situations, everyone has a drink or uses social drugs to reduce inhibition, a bit of coercion... of course... everyone knows how it works. A woman can find herself in a certain unwelcome situation, but all she has to do is walk out. The key issue in these cases is was the door locked and were they physically constrained. But of course they weren't. The law can't take into account the whole context - a word or a glance can make all the difference. Those subtleties are easily overlooked or distorted and can never in any case be proven by either party.

Years later, the 'victims' hear society screeching with newfound indignation about this kind of thing and find these events from the distant past useful excuse for their own failures in life. Really, stuff happens and it shouldn't be a matter for the courts. We used to put these things down to experience. It's seriously worrying how sensitive society is becoming. We seem to be heading for a future of hysterical mass insecurity.

Edited July 7, 2015 by ddavidovsky

[theguyfromanotherforum]

There's no way this sort of thing should be actionable - the psychology involved is way too fuzzy.

Most of these cases seem to involve 'much-loved' celebrities - they certainly are not aware they are doing anyone any harm.

In these situations, everyone has a drink or uses social drugs to reduce inhibition, a bit of coercion... of course... everyone knows how it works. A woman can find herself in a certain unwelcome situation, but all she has to do is walk out. The key issue in these cases is was the door locked and were they physically constrained. But of course they weren't. The law can't take into account the whole context - a word or a glance can make all the difference. Those subtleties are easily overlooked or distorted and can never in any case be proven by either party.

Years later, the 'victims' hear society screeching with newfound indignation about this kind of thing and find these events from the distant past useful excuse for their own failures in life. Really, stuff happens and it shouldn't be a matter for the courts. We used to put these things down to experience. It's seriously worrying how sensitive society is becoming. We seem to be heading for a future of hysterical mass insecurity.

Yes I guess you have a point there. I guess what annoys me with this guy is that he's such a massive hypocrite, so I feel indifferent if he's getting screwed.