Bill Cosby’s comedy for NBC was canceled after new allegations of rape were made against the comedian, most recently from Janice Dickinson. Netflix made a similar move by canning the Cosby comedy special that was to premiere the week of Thanksgiving. Looks like Bill Cosby is out of a job, not that he as really had one to mention since the 1980s anyway!
Cosby, 77, has not publicly addressed the claims against him, which have now been made publicly by at least six women. In an NPR interview that aired over the weekend, Cosby refused to discuss the allegations.
Marty Singer, Cosby’s attorney, has said the comedian did nothing wrong. Responding to former model Janice Dickinson’s claim that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her, Singer called the story an “outrageous defamatory lie.” In a letter to website The Wrap, Singer said the version of events Dickinson relayed this week doesn’t match what she wrote about the encounter in a memoir.
Dickinson spoke to Entertainment Weekly several days after former actress Barbara Bowman wrote in last Friday’s Washington Post, “Cosby had drugged and raped me, too.”
As NPR’s Eric Deggans wrote this week, “several recent events, including the 30th anniversary of The Cosby Show and the publication of the biography, have pushed media to reconsider Cosby’s legacy.”
-via NPR
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