Actor and comedian Bill Cosby faces new accusations of sexual assault in a lawsuit brought by nine women who allege he “used his enormous power, fame and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers, as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them”.
The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in US district court for Nevada, several weeks after the Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, signed a “lookback law” that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases.
Each of the plaintiffs alleges they were drugged and assaulted between by Cosby between approximately 1979 and 1992 in homes, dressing rooms and hotels in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe.
