Attorney Gloria Allred (née Gloria Rachel Bloom) held a news conference Wednesday, with three women who allege they were sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby.
Allred challenged Cosby to waive the statute of limitation and face trial, which works nicely as a publicity stunt, but much, much water will flow in the Jordan River before Dr. Cliff Huxtable puts his lovely head inside the little hole in the guillotine for her.
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Allred proposed that, alternatively, Cosby should establish a $100 million fund to settle with the victims, using retired judges to decide who gets how much.
“The ball is in his court, ” Allred said.
But his balls are in her grip, or so she intended her message to be.
Beth Ferrier, from Colorado, said she wanted to become a model back in the 1980s, and Cosby, promising to get her in touch with a modeling agent, instead “drugged me and sexually assaulted me.”
Ferrier was Jane Doe No. 5 in the Andrea Constad lawsuit against Cosby. “I want Mr. Cosby to face justice for what he has done to me and so many other women, ” Ferrier told the press conference.
Helen Hayes, from Northern California , said Cosby’s ” behavior was like that of a predator.” She described how Cosby followed her and her friends around in 1973 and grabbed her breast.
Chelan, from California, the third accuser, was 17 when she met Cosby in 1986. She said that he gave her a blue pill in a hotel room, and that she passed out with him in bed with her. She recalled receiving $1, 500 from Cosby when she woke up.
said that at this point they would not comment as to whether Chelan, a California resident, has already brought her case to law enforcement or whether she plans to go to law enforcement with the charges.
“There are many people who are suffering out there, ” attorney Allred said, suggesting that many more victims are coming out of the woodwork.
