TheWrap offers a comprehensive list of alleged victims of the comedian leading up to Cosby’s conviction in the Andrea Constand case
Bill Cosby has been publicly accused of raping, drugging, coercing or sexually assaulting as many as 60 women in all since 1965. Many of the accusations only started to emerge in October 2014.
The 80-year-old comedian was found guilty by a jury in his retrial over accusations made by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. Cosby was re-tried in a Pennsylvania court on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, stemming from Constand’s accusation that the comedian drugged and molested her in 2004 at his home outside of Philadelphia. The jury found him guilty in a unanimous vote on all three counts.
Below is the comprehensive list of Cosby’s accusers, the date of the alleged assault, when they came forward, and the specifics of their accusations.
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1. Louisa Moritz
Date of Alleged Assault – 1969
Date of Accusation – Nov. 13,2015
Actress Louisa Moritz — whose credits include “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and the Cheech and Chong film “Up in Smoke” — claims that she was in a backstage waiting room prior to appearing on “The Tonight Show” in 1969 when Cosby showed up at the door.
Cosby “implied that Plaintiff Moritz would become a major star through his direction,” after which he exposed himself, placed his hands behind her head, and “forced his penis into Plaintiff Moritz’s mouth over her resistance,” according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts. “Defendant Cosby said to Plaintiff Moritz, ‘Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways,’” the lawsuit reads. “Defendant Cosby added, ‘I am going to make you something incredible.’”
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2. “Dottye”
Date of Alleged Assault – 1984
Date of Accusation – Oct. 23,2015
At a press conference in New York accompanied by attorney Gloria Allred, a woman referred to as Dottye claims she reached out to Cosby after she’d missed an open call for his sitcom and that he then called and asked her to audition for him. When she arrived at his New York brownstone, she said, Cosby gave her a drink and “began to spin me around.”
“Once he stopped spinning me I was dizzy and disoriented, and sick,” Dottye said. “Within seconds I began to vomit all over myself and his rug. I felt ashamed.”
Dottye went on to claim that Cosby disrobed her, washed her in the bathroom and apparently gave her a robe to wear. “He leaned me against the chest, raised the robe and raped me,” she said, adding that he then led her to the dining room “and laid me on the floor where he continued his assault.”
Dottye says Cosby led her to the front door and closed it behind her, leaving her to drive home to New Jersey by herself, but then “ Cosby called me the next day, not to see how I was, but for phone sex!” Dottye recalled. “He tried to get me to do it, but I was no longer under the influence of what I thought was only alcohol.”
3. Donna Barrett
Date of Alleged Assault – 2004
Date of Accusation – Oct. 23,2015
A woman identified as Donna Barrett said that she was officiating a track meet at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 when Cosby “grabbed me from behind very firmly and quite purposefully.
“He had his arm on my waist and forcefully pulled me onto his private area saying, ‘Hey, back that thing up here, girl, back it on up!’” Barrett claimed. “I felt his private parts against my backside. I cried out and tried to pull away from his vise-like grip on my waist.”
4. Sharon Van Ert
Date of Alleged Assault – 1976
Date of Accusation – Sept. 30,2015
Sharon Van Ert alleges that she met Cosby in 1976 while working as a waitress at a jazz club in Redondo Beach, California. She said Cosby was a regular and one night he offered to walk her to her car. While she didn’t initially suspect anything, Ert said she started to feel “unusually dizzy” and Cosby got in the passenger side of the car with her after expressing concerns that she might not be “able to drive home.”
“The next thing I remember was waking up in my car, my head hanging down from the seat,” she recalled at a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles. “I knew I was drugged because I threw up. When I got home I realized my panties were missing and I never found them.”
5. Pamela Abeyta
Date of Alleged Assault – 1979
Date of Accusation – Sept. 30,2015
Pamela Abeyta, who aspired to appear in Playboy, said a mutual friend sent her to meet with Cosby’s producer at his Southern California home in 1979 because she knew he was a friend of Hugh Hefner. The producer booked her on the next flight to Las Vegas to meet with Cosby, she said.
He gave her $200 to gamble, bought $2,500 in new clothes and took her for dinner. “I don’t remember leaving the dinner show,” she said through tears. “When I came to, I was lying in Bill Cosby ‘s bed, not my own room.” She passed out again and she came to “I saw two other naked people in the room by the bed,” she said.
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6. Lisa Christie
Date of Alleged Assault – 1989
Date of Accusation – Sept. 30,2015
Lisa Christie said she was 18 when she met Cosby and was introduced to him in an attempt to transition from modeling to acting. “I began to go on Jell-O commercials with him and he placed me as an extra on ‘The Cosby Show’ a couple of times,” Christie said. However, two years later in 1989, the TV legend flew her to Chicago and they met at the Ambassador East Hotel.
Cosby suggested they do an acting exercise and asked her to kiss him “like a boyfriend,” she said. She pushed him away, but he reportedly told her, “I’ll give you the biggest orgasm you’ve ever had!”
7. “Elizabeth”
Date of Alleged Assault – 1976
Date of Accusation – Aug. 20,2015
During a press conference with Allred in New York, a woman identified only as Elizabeth claimed she was “barely 20 years old” and a flight attendant for American Airlines when she met Cosby on a New York-to-Los Angeles flight. Elizabeth said Cosby gave her his number and invited her to the Playboy mansion “to lay out in the sun while he played tennis with James Brown.
They later went out for dinner and upon returning to his hotel room, “he made me kneel down,” Elizabeth said in a statement to reporters on Aug. 20. “I don’t want to repeat what happened next. All I know is that it was the most horrifying thing that could happen to an innocent young woman.”
8. Heidi Thomas
Date of Alleged Assault – 1984
Date of Accusation – Aug. 20,2015
Heidi Thomas, a former aspiring model and actress, accused Cosby of forcing himself upon her in the 1980s. She claimed she was instructed by her agency to visit Cosby, who was performing at Harrah’s Hotel and Casino in Reno, he could give her pointers on acting. She performed a monologue for him, after which he told her to do a read as a drunk person.
“How are you ever going play an intoxicated person… if you’ve never been drunk?” Cosby said, then gave her a glass of Chablis, according to her explanation. That’s when she says things got “foggy.”
According to Thomas, she woke up to find Cosby in bed with her. The comedian was naked and “forcing himself in my mouth.”
9. Linda Ridgeway Whitedeer
Date of Alleged Assault – Early 1970s
Date of Accusation – Aug. 12,2015
At a press conference in attorney Gloria Allred’s Los Angeles office on Aug. 12, Linda Ridgeway Whitedeer told reporters that she encountered Cosby in the early ’70s on a movie set where Cosby told her, “I’m going to interview you and we will use the director’s office.” However, Whitedeer said what transpired in the office was very different.
“I felt Cosby’s left hand gently grab my long hair behind my head … his giant frame blocked the door so if anyone should try to enter, they would not be able to see what he was doing,” Whitedeer said. “As I looked up his penis was out of his pants and he shoved it in my mouth. His attack was fast with surgical precision and surprise on his side.”
10. Colleen Hughes
Date of Alleged Assault – Early 1970s
Date of Accusation – Aug. 12,2015
American Airlines flight attendant Hughes met Cosby on a flight to Los Angeles and he invited her to lunch afterwards. She changed in his Beverly Hills hotel room, but when she emerged, Hughes claimed that Cosby was drinking champagne out of her shoe. There were also glasses of champagne, Hughes said, and Cosby handed her one. The last thing Hughes claimed to remember was Cosby attempting to hold her hand, after which she woke up hours later.
“My clothes were thrown all over the room and I felt semen on the small of my back and all over me,” Hughes said in front of reporters at Gloria Allred’s Los Angeles office. “Bill obviously did not use a condom.”
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11. Eden Tirl
Date of Alleged Assault – 1989
Date of Accusation – Aug. 12,2015
Tirl claimed that she had been cast to play a police officer on “The Cosby Show” on its fifth season and was ushered to Cosby’s dressing room after shooting one afternoon. He locked the door and while they chatted, she nervously tried to deter him by saying: “Bill, you are Jello pudding pops and Fat Albert to me … you are my childhood,” but he barked back, “Don’t say that, they all say that!”
“I had handled being ‘hit on’ many times in the industry, this had far surpassed that.” Tirl told reporters. “I felt dominated.”
12. Lili Bernard
Date of Alleged Assault – Early ’90s
Date of Accusation – May 1,2015
Bernard, who appeared in an episode of the final season of “The Cosby Show,” claimed that she was drugged, raped and threatened by Cosby while he was mentoring her in preparation for her appearance as “the zany and very pregnant Mrs. Minifield.”
Bernard claimed that she last saw the comedian at the “Cosby Show” studios in 1992, where he told her, “As far as I’m concerned, Bernard, you’re dead. Do you hear me? You’re dead, Bernard. You don’t exist, I never wanna see your face again. Now get the hell out of here!”
“I interpreted that as a death threat and feared for my life,” Bernard said.
13. Sammie Mays
Date of Alleged Assault – Mid-1980’s
Date of Accusation – May 1,2015
Mays said that she encountered Cosby in the mid-’80s, as a writer covering the NATPE convention in New Orleans. According to Mays, when she asked Cosby for a brief interview, she invited him to walk with her from the convention center across the street to his hotel.
Once in Cosby’s hotel suite, Mays says, Cosby mixed a drink for her with his back to her. After taking two big swigs, Mays claims, “The next thing I remember when I awoke, from my state of unconsciousness I seemed to have been drooling, and was sloppily slouched in the chair with barely the edge of my bottom in it.”
14. Margie Shapiro
Date of Alleged Assault – 1975
Date of Accusation – March 27,2015
Shapiro told reporters that she met Cosby in 1975 while she was working at a donut shop in Santa Monica, where Cosby ordered dozens of donuts. She claimed that she was invited to Cosby’s film set, where she spent the afternoon with the comedian. Afterward, she was invited to a casual dinner with Cosby, but the dinner was canceled and the comedian invited her to the Playboy Mansion instead, Shapiro, who said she was 19 at the time, continued. Instead, the pair entered what she called a “rec place” or “game house,” and Cosby told her whoever lost at pinball had to take a pill. Shapiro lost — and when she came to, both she and Cosby were naked, and Cosby was inside of her. Shapiro claims to have “mercifully” passed out again, but every time she regained consciousness, Cosby was touching her sexually.
The alleged victim said that Cosby acted as if nothing had happened, eventually telling her that they would not be seeing Hugh Hefner and that she wasn’t dressed nicely enough, instead a driver took her home.
15. Sunni Welles
Date of Alleged Assault – Mid-60s
Date of Accusation – March 27,2015
Welles claimed that she met Cosby when she was a little girl, due to the fact that her mother — who once considered him to be a friend — was a theatrical agent. “I once liked Cosby very much, but that has changed now,” Welles said.
According to Welles, in the mid-1960s when she was 17 her mother took her to the set of Cosby’s “I Spy,” where Cosby asked her for her number. Cosby then invited Welles to see jazz. The teen, who was auditioning for background singer jobs at the time, was “thrilled” by the invitation. At the jazz club, she ordered a Coke, and that “things began to become blurry” after she took a sip of it. Welles, who said that she didn’t remember leaving the club or driving anywhere, added that she woke up naked in an apartment where Cosby couldn’t be found. Welles went home and showered, she told reporters, and felt like she had sex. “I did not want to believe that a family friend would do that to me,” Welles told reporters at the office of attorney Gloria Allred.
16. Linda Brown
Date of alleged incident: 1969
Date of accusation: February 12,2015
Brown said she first met Cosby after shooting a Wonderbra commercial in Toronto in 1969. Brown, then 22, said the comedian took her to dinner, but instead of taking her home afterward he took her to his hotel room to give her a gift.
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“He then went into the other room, got me a soft drink and then he said he needed to make his call. I took a sip and blacked out,” she said. “When I awakened I was naked in the bed beside him. I had no idea how my clothes came off or how and why I was in his bed.”
“I was shocked and had no clue as to how I got there or why Mr. Cosby was beside me under the covers naked. I couldn’t move or speak,” she added. “I felt paralyzed. He flipped me over and sexually assaulted me. I felt like a rag doll and like a real life blow-up doll for him.”
17. Lise-Lotte Lublin
Date of alleged incident: 1989
Date of accusation: February 12,2015
Lublin said her modeling agency connected her with Cosby when she was 23. She said the comedian invited her back to his hotel room for what he described as an audition, later asking her to put on an acting display.
She said the comedian then fixed her a shot of alcohol to calm her nerves. “I told him I did not drink, but he insisted, so I drank it… I trusted him because of who he was, and how well he was respected around the world,” she said. “My next memory was waking up at home, and for me, it felt like several days had passed.”
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“I am furious and I have decided to fight for my rights and the rights of every man, woman and child who have been victims of a sexual crime,” Lublin continued. “I have contacted every senator and assembly-person from the state of Nevada and I will continue to rally every victim of sexual assault, every rape crisis center and every supporter who believes in the right to have an offender tried in a court of law,” she said.
18. Helen Gumpel
Date of alleged incident: 1987
Date of accusation: February 8,2015
Former fashion model and actress Helen Gumpel came forward in February and accused Bill Cosby of acting lewd and making sexual advances at her while she was on the set of “The Cosby Show.”
She said she went to Cosby’s dressing room under the impression that she was auditioning to appear on a second episode of the comedian’s family sitcom. Gumpel alleges Cosby sat her down on a couch and handed her a drink. Next, she said he put her crotch in his face.
“I never thought of myself as a victim because I refused his advances,” Gumpel said in a press conference. “But my career was a victim.”
19. Cindra Ladd
Date of alleged incident: After 1969
Date of accusation: January 26,2015
Cindra Ladd, wife of “Blade Runner” producer Alan Ladd Jr., came forward with allegations against Cosby in a troubling HuffPo op-ed .
She said she met the comedian in 1969 and they saw each other socially on multiple occasions. Once, when they were supposed to watch a movie, she said he coerced her into taking a mysterious pill. Ladd alleges she blacked out as a result and eventually woke up naked.
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“It was obvious to me that he had sex with me,” she wrote. “I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed. There was a mirror above the bed, which shocked me further.”
“I don’t remember where the theater was nor very much of the evening,” she continued. “What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend’s apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual.”
20. Linda Kirkpatrick
Date of alleged incident: 1981
Date of accusation: January 7,2015
Linda Kirkpatrick and two other alleged victims came forward on Jan. 7 with the help of renowned civil rights attorney Gloria Allred. Kirkpatrick claimed to have met Cosby during a mixed doubles tennis tournament in Las Vegas in 1981. After she bested Cosby in their match, Kirkpatrick claimed she attended his show at the Las Vegas Hilton and, arriving at his dressing room, was given a “tall, thin champagne type of glass” by Cosby which contained a clear liquid that “tasted terrible.”
Later, in Cosby’s dressing room, Kirkpatrick said he “was on top of me kissing me forcefully” even though she “had no interest in sex of any kind” with him.
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Kirkpatrick also added that she had “no conscious recollection of how I got home” and, the next day, “began violently throwing up… as a result of what I believe to be ingesting some kind of drug.”
21. Rebecca Lynn Neal
Date of alleged incident: 1986
Date of accusation: January 7,2015
Lynn Neal also came forward during Allred’s Jan. 7 press conference and accused Cosby of rape.
She claimed to have met Cosby when she was a massage therapist in her mid-20s at a health club. Neal said the comedian invited her to his show and later to dinner. According to Neal, Cosby gave her a shot of Stoli and, after the pair returned to his dressing room — with Neal in a “disoriented and confused” state — Cosby began having sex with her against her will.
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“He built my trust by pretending to be a friend,” Neal said at the conference. “He drugged and raped me.”
22. “Kacey”
Date of alleged incident: 1990s
Date of accusation: January 7,2015
A third accuser, identified as Kacey, said she worked as an assistant to Cosby’s personal appearances agent at William Morris in the ’90s.
Kacey also came forward with Allred during her Jan. 7 press conference and said she was once invited to Cosby’s bungalow, where he gave her a large, white pill that she took at his repeated insistence. Kacey claimed that she next remembers waking up in bed with a naked Cosby.
23. Kathrine Mae McKee
Date of alleged incident: 1974
Date of accusation: Dec. 22,2014
Former Vegas showgirl and girlfriend of the late- Sammy Davis Jr., Kathrine Mae McKee, claims she was sexually assaulted by Cosby during the 1970s . “He was a buddy. He knew I was Sammy’s girl,” McKee says.
The actress says that she first met Cosby in 1964 and appeared on “The Bill Cosby Show” in 1971, but the alleged incident took place three years later, in 1974, after Cosby asked her to pick him up at his hotel to go to his friend’s boat party, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts last December.
However, when she arrived, McKee claims that Cosby, dressed in a bathrobe and knit wool cap, “immediately set upon and physically attacked her,” tossing the food she had brought for him aside. “Cosby was wild and aggressive, and was acting nothing like the man Ms. McKee had known professionally,” the lawsuit reads.
Cosby then violently lifted McKee’s dress and pulled down her panties, the lawsuit says, and “proceeded to forcibly rape Ms. McKee” in an incident that was “shocking, scary and horrible.”
“To me, there was a different personality involved,” McKee said, regarding the assault. “He was a different man. It felt like a different person performing the act.”
24. “Lisa”
Date of alleged incident: 1988
Date of accusation: Dec. 19,2014
A woman using the pseudonym Lisa accused Cosby of drugging her and possibly taking advantage of her in 1988. She spoke out Friday, Dec. 19 on an episode of the talk show “Dr. Phil.”
The former model said the comedian had befriend her in the 1980s: “I trusted him like I trusted my own father.”
But all of that allegedly changed after she visited Cosby at his hotel suite for a career mentoring session. Lisa said he insisted she drink multiple drinks, which made her dizzy.
“Bill had sat down on the edge of the couch. He said, ‘Come over here and have a seat.’ And he had his legs open and when I sat down, I was sitting down in between his legs with my back to his crotch. And he started to stroke my hair back in a petting motion like this,” she explained. “The last thing I remember is just feeling the strokes on my head. After that, I don’t remember anything else.”
Lisa said she woke up two days later, without any memories of what happened in the interim.
25. Chloe Goins
Date of alleged incident: 2008
Date of accusation: Dec. 15,2014
Model Chloe Goins alleges that Cosby sexually assaulted her in 2008 at the Playboy Mansion. A lawsuit filed on Oct. 6 describes the comedian as a “serial rapist” and accuses him of drugging and assaulting Goins during a party at the mansion. “[T]he nature of these activities establishes a history of a serial rapist that has been conducting these horrendous activities against women for over the last 40 years,” the lawsuit states.
After consuming a drink that he gave her, the model felt sick and dizzy before blacking out. “Ms. Goins awoke to find that her breasts were wet and sticky, as if someone had been licking them, and Cosby was biting one of her toes as he crouched at the end of the bed,” it continued.
