Embattled US comedian Bill Cosby admitted having drugged
at least one woman with Quaaludes to have sex with her, in
court documents unsealed Monday.
Cosby, accused of sexual assault by some 30 women over
decades but who has so far escaped justice, made the
admission in a deposition in 2005, talking about an incident
from 1976.
The 77-year-old was questioned by Dolores Troiani, a
lawyer for Andrea Constand, a former women’s basketball
director at Philadelphia’s Temple University
where Cosby studied and was a member of the board of
trustees.
Constand took her rape case to court, but the case was
dropped.
Cosby’s lawyers had long sought to block publication of the
court transcripts, but they were released Monday on the
PACER public court records website.
In one exchange between Cosby and Troiani, the comic
admitted having obtained seven prescriptions for
Quaaludes, a powerful sedative drug.
“You gave them to other people?” asked the attorney.
“Yes,” replied Cosby.
Troiani then asked him: “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?”
“Yes,” replied Cosby, although a short time later he said he
had misunderstood the question, and was referring only to
one woman.
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