Video is just surfacing from the Nov. 6 sitdown 
 
 In uncomfortable, newly released footage, Bill Cosby refuses to answer questions about allegations that he sexually assaulted multiple women. 
 
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 The Associated Press released footage from the Nov. 6 interview Wednesday. In the video, Cosby repeatedly says "there is no comment" when asked about the allegations. He is seated next to his wife Camille, who participated in the interview about artwork they had loaned to an exhibition in Washington, D.C. 
 
 "There is no comment about that, and I'll tell you why," Cosby told the reporter. "I don't want to compromise your integrity, but I don't talk about it." 
 
 Cosby later asked the reporter for assurance that none of that portion of the interview would be used. 
 
 "I would appreciate it if it was scuttled," Cosby said. 
 
 He went on to tell the reporter, "if you consider yourself to be serious," then he wouldn't use the footage. 
 
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 "We thought, by the way, because it was AP, that it wouldn't be necessary to go over that question," Cosby said. "If you would tell your boss the reason why we didn't say that up front is because we thought the AP had the integrity to not ask." 
 
 Cosby faces multiple allegations of sexual assault from women who say the comedian attacked them years ago. Amid the controversy, NBC scrapped a planned series, Netflix postponed a comedy special, and TV Land pulled repeats of The Cosby Show. Cosby has denied the allegations through statements from his reps and attorneys. The most recent allegation came from former supermodel Janice Dickinson, who alleged Cosby raped her in 1982. 
 
 Cosby was previously asked about the allegations by NPR's Scott Simon, and responded with silence. 
 
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 Twitter: @AaronCouch ||||| FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2013 file photo, actor-comedian Bill Cosby poses for a portrait in New York. NBC announced Wednesday, Nov. 19, that it has canceled plans for a family comedy starring Bill Cosby.... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has scrapped a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development and TV Land will stop airing reruns of "The Cosby Show," moves that came a day after another woman came forward claiming that the once-beloved comic had sexually assaulted her. 
 
 NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks said Wednesday the Cosby sitcom "is no longer under development." A TV Land representative said the reruns will stop airing immediately for an indefinite time. "The Cosby Show" also was to have been part of a Thanksgiving sitcom marathon. 
 
 The NBC sitcom and "Cosby Show" reruns joined a Netflix Cosby standup comedy special, which was indefinitely postponed late Tuesday, as mounting evidence of Cosby's faltering career. They occurred a day after model Janice Dickinson, in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight," became the third woman in recent weeks to allege she'd been assaulted by Cosby — charges strongly denied by the comedian's lawyer. 
 
 The developments, which involve allegations that were widely reported a decade ago as well as new accusations, have gravely damaged the 77-year-old comedian's reputation as America's TV dad at a time when he was launching a comeback. A year ago, a standup special — his first in 30 years — aired on Comedy Central and drew a hefty audience of 2 million viewers. His prospective new series was announced by NBC in January. 
 
 Cosby has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations. Former Pennsylvania prosecutor Bruce L. Castor Jr., who investigated a woman's claims that Cosby had sexually assaulted her in 2004, said Wednesday he decided not to prosecute because he felt there was not enough evidence to get a conviction. 
 
 "I wrote my opinion in such a way as I thought conveyed to the whole world that I thought he had done it, he had just gotten away with it because of a lack of evidence," the former Montgomery County district attorney said. 
 
 If Cosby hadn't been cooperative with the investigation, "I probably would have arrested him," Castor said. 
 
 Cosby was asked about the growing furor by an Associated Press reporter when the comedian was promoting an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art that features the comedian's African-American art collection alongside African artworks. 
 
 When the AP interviewed Cosby, on Nov. 6, the story involved long-circulated accusations from several women and recent criticism from comedian Hannibal Buress. Cosby declined to comment, saying "We don't answer that." 
 
 The AP mentioned the allegations and Cosby's decision not to comment at the end of its story, which, like the interview, was primarily about his loan of more than 50 artworks to the Washington museum. 
 
 Since then, two women have come forward publicly to accuse him of sexual assault, Netflix, TV Land and NBC cut ties and an appearance on "The Late Show With David Letterman" was canceled. In recent days, as the allegations gained increasing attention, AP went back through the full video of the Nov. 6 interview and decided to publish Cosby's full reaction to questions about the claims. 
 
 The AP was among a handful of news organizations granted interviews with Cosby in connection with the art exhibition. After his initial refusal to comment — as the interview was winding down but with the camera still running and Cosby wearing a lapel microphone — the comedian asked the AP to not use the brief on-camera refusal to comment he had just made about the allegations. "And I would appreciate it if it was scuttled," he said. 
 
 The interview was on the record. The AP had made no agreement to avoid questions about the allegations or to withhold publishing any of his comments at any time. 
 
 The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art has not changed its plans for the show, which opened this month on the National Mall and is scheduled to remain on view through early 2016. 
 
 "The exhibition has been very well received. We've actually had record numbers through the door," spokesman Eddie Burke said, adding the museum has had no complaints. 
 
 The NBC project was in the very early stages, without a script or commitment to production. But it would have brought Cosby back to the network where he had reigned in the 1980s with the top-rated "The Cosby Show." 
 
 There's some precedent for a network burying a project because of stories involving a star's personal life. NBC shelved a two-hour TV movie, "Frogmen," starring O.J. Simpson in 1994 after the former football star was implicated in his wife's death. 
 
 Cosby has continued working as a stand-up comic, and has at least 35 performances scheduled throughout the U.S. and Canada through May 2015. None of the performances has been cancelled. 
 
 National Artists Corporation, which is promoting part of the tour, said it will not be canceling any shows. 
 
 Dickinson told "Entertainment Tonight" that Cosby had given her red wine and a pill when they were together in a Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room in 1982. When she woke up the next morning, "I wasn't wearing my pajamas and I remembered before I passed out I had been sexually assaulted by this man." 
 
 Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, said in a letter to the AP that Dickinson's charges were "false and outlandish" and were contradicted by Dickinson herself in a published autobiography. Cosby's spokesman, David Brokaw, did not return calls for comment. 
 
 Singer said the first Cosby heard of any assault allegation from Dickinson came in the "Entertainment Tonight" interview, and suggested the actress was "seeking publicity to bolster her fading career." 
 
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 Mark Kennedy and Frazier Moore in New York, Lynn Elber in Los Angeles, Kathy Matheson in Norristown, Pa. and Brett Zongker in Washington, D.C., contributed to this story. 
 
 Read more ||||| Bill Cosby has been experiencing a torrent of criminal accusations and an accompanying wave of bad press recently, and now he has fired back at his latest accuser, former supermodel Janice Dickinson. Dickinson went on Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday to say that Cosby had raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982. What she described sounded similar to the other multiple allegations against Cosby. According to Dickinson, he told her he could help her career, and then after a dinner, he gave her a pill with some wine. She found herself, she said, being "sexually assaulted" in her hotel room. 
 
 Dickinson told Entertainment Tonight, "The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs." She said she came forward because "it's the right thing to do." 
 
 BuzzFeed News wrote about Dickinson's allegations on Tuesday, and reached out to Cosby's publicist for comment. Hours after the story had been published with no response from his representative, BuzzFeed News received a letter from Cosby's new attorney, Martin Singer, who, in the past, has represented celebrities such as Charlie Sheen and John Travolta. 
 
 As The Hollywood Reporter noted last year, Singer has "become famous for sending menacing legal threats." In the letter to BuzzFeed News, Singer argued that Dickinson contradicted her own accusations against Cosby in the past. Dickinson's representative did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News asking for her response. 
 
 Cosby, 77, remains in a perilous place in terms of his career and his public persona. As of Wednesday, NBC pulled the plug on the pilot it was developing with Cosby, and Netflix announced Tuesday night that it was postponing the launch of his comedy special that was to start streaming on Nov. 28. 
 
 As this story has exploded, Singer hasn't been answering for Cosby — but he has seemingly been brought in to try to manage this crisis. "You proceed at your peril," he wrote to BuzzFeed News. ||||| Female staffers at “The Late Show With David Letterman” are breathing a collective sigh of relief they don’t have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance. A source close to the show tells Confidenti@l that the disgraced comic had some truly bizarre backstage requests. 
 
 “He’d include as a request, before he arrived, that the young girls, interns and assistants, all had to gather around in the green room backstage and sit down and watch him eat curry,” our stunned source explains. “No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating and make us watch and want us to watch.” 
 
 In the wake of multiple women accusing Cosby of raping them, his latest visit to the CBS show has been canceled. But when the 77- year-old comic appeared multiple times over the years, he’d act alarmingly gross to the women employees. 
 
 Bill Cosby's 'Late Show' appearance was canceled. (John Lamparski/WireImage) 
 
 While our source adds that everyone hated the odd preshow ritual, they were asked by producers to do it because “that’s what he (Cosby) wanted.” 
 
 Over the past few weeks, Cosby has been bombarded with allegations that he sexually assaulted women and promised them showbiz success under his tutelage. Accusers Andrea Constand and Tamara Green were named in a 2005 lawsuit, along with a dozen Jane Does. It was settled outside of court in 2006. 
 
 A year later, aspiring actress Barbara Bowman said Cosby raped her in New York City in the 1980s. Supermodel Janice Dickinson, nurse Therese Serignese, writer Joan Tarshis and actress Angela Leslie all claimed Cosby sexually assaulted them at some point. Carla Ferrigno, the wife of “Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno, said she fought off Cosby in 1967 after he roughly tried to kiss her. 
 
 The scandal has short-circuited Cosby’s attempted comeback. Netflix has postponed an upcoming comedy special featuring the 77-year-old, NBC axed a planned 2015 sitcom, and TV Land yanked “The Cosby Show” reruns from the network. The Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas canceled a Cosby comedy show for this Friday. 
 
 Naomi Campbell brings the drama in an embellished Tom Ford gown at the American Museum of Natural History gala. (Greg Allen/Invision/AP) Miranda Kerr sparkles in a head-to-toe Escada ensemble for the brand's fragrance launch at Sephora in Union Square. (Alessio Botticelli/GC Images) 
 
 Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were seen in L.A. (Barry King/FilmMagic) 
 
 Bluewater Production has released a Bono bio. (Bluewater Productions) 
 
 CHARLIZE, SEAN A MAGICAL PAIR 
 
 Charlize Theron and Sean Penn made a pretty pair at Thursday’s Nasty Gal Melrose Store Launch in L.A. Earlier in the week, they’d shared an enchanted evening at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. A spywitness tells us, “They were completely absorbed in the magic show and really enjoying themselves,” says our tipster. “They had major chemistry between them, and Sean was doting on Charlize.” The couple recently returned from South Africa, where they were working on “The Last Face” together. 
 
 PAGING BONO 
 
 A bad month for Bono has suddenly turned comical. Bluewater Productions, the comic book company that has penned illustrated bios of Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, has released a Bono bio. On Nov. 12, the U2 singer averted disaster over Europe when a hatch came off his plane. He wasn’t so lucky this week, when a bike accident in Central Park landed him in the hospital. At least he’ll have something to read now. 
 
 Camille Grammer was reportedly drinking before she slammed her ex Kelsey Grammer on TV. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Race To Erase MS) Ne-Yo performed at the 2014 Global Spin Awards. (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) 
 
 GRAMMER SLAM: MAYBE BIG PROOF 
 
 When Camille Grammer called her ex-husband Kelsey Grammer “a total d—” and “an ass” on live TV, it turns out she had topped up on liquid courage earlier. Before they headed to the studio to appear on “Watch What Happens Live!” a Confidenti@l spy spotted Camille and her “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-stars Taylor Armstrong and Adrienne Maloof drinking margaritas and martinis while eating at the Chester. A spokesperson for Camille said: “She was absolutely sober at the time of the taping and she stands by her remarks. Kelsey has to learn to love his children more than he hates her.” 
 
 LOTS OF POSITIVE SPIN FOR DJ AWARDS 
 
 The 2014 Global Spin Awards took place at New World Stages on W. 50th St., where world-famous deejays took home awards for their spinning skills. This year Ne-Yo performed for the crowd, with Diddy, Funkmaster Flex and Kid Capri all shmoozing in the crowd. Among the winners were Katy Perry’s boyfriend, Diplo, for Electronic Dance Music DJ of the Year; Jus Ske for Open Format DJ of the year; DJ Whoo Kid for online/satellite DJ of the Year and DJ Scratch for a little old-school Turntablist DJ of the Year. Congrats on the one’s and two’s. 
 
 Tina Fey called Kim Kardashian's butt 'a step forward.' (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) Usher is still trying to rock the Davy Crockett hat. (London Entertainment /Splash) 
 
 FEY CRACKS THEM UP ON KIM 
 
 Tina Fey came out in support of Kim Kardashian’s now-infamous Paper cover at the American Museum of Natural History’s 2014 Museum Gala. 
 
 “It’s a positive thing for Kim to be out there showing her butt crack like that” Fey said. “And I’m really serious about that, because it really is a step forward. Because if you think back 40 years ago, Hugh Hefner would have been in charge of Kim’s butt crack. He would have been calling the shots on Kim’s butt crack. ... Thank God Kim Kardashian for having the strength to be like ‘This is MY butt crack. This is where my poopy comes out. And I demand economic autonomy.’ It is so brave and such a wonderful cultural step for women.” 
 
 Fey also weighed in on the recent elections, saying: 
 
 “What else has happened since I last saw you guys? Republicans are now in control of both houses of Congress, which is fewer houses than most of them are used to.” 
 
 The “30 Rock” creator and star was joined by big names at the bash, including hubby Jeff Richmond, Naomi Campbell, Vanessa Bayer, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen and Kyle Mooney. 
 
 USHER IS TOO FUR GONE FOR HELP 
 
 While Pharrell’s Vivienne Westwood hat is here to stay, Usher is still trying to make his Davy Crockett Hat happen. Like “fetch,” it’s failing to catch on. But the 36-year-old “The Voice” judge presses on, this time sporting the fur topper after leaving a doctor’s appointment in Beverly Hills. Thankfully his cute smile will always be on trend. 
 
 Josh Duhamel brings his son to set. (KVS, PacificCoastNews) 
 
 COUPLE OF SURFER DUDES 
 
 It doesn’t get cuter than this. Josh Duhamel, also known as Mr. Fergie, brought towheaded 1-year-old son Axl to the set of his new series, “Battle Creek,” in Malibu. Wearing a wetsuit to shoot surfing scenes, Duhamel looked every bit the cool California dad, showing Axl some moves for the waves. 
 
 Jennifer Garner was spotted at Georgetown Cupcake in Soho. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) 
 
 GARNER’S DAY IS PIECE OF CAKE 
 
 Jennifer Garner was spotted sans hubby Ben Affleck in SoHo recently, where she stopped by Georgetown Cupcake to indulge in a little treat with a galpal. A spy tells us she bought a vanilla cupcake for herself and “was really nice.” Garner thanked everyone before heading out. The actress was in town to host the annual Save the Children Illumination Gala and brought Affleck, her husband of nearly 10 years, to the event. Garner wore a sleeveless LBD, showing off arms that revealed no evidence of cupcake eating. 
 
 Kylie Jenner puts on a pout in an Instagram pic. (kyliejenner via Instagram) 
 
 KYLIE IS A BIG MOUTH 
 
 Continuing to spark rumors that she’s had a little something injected into her lips, 17-year-old Kylie Jenner painted on a particularly huge pout for an Instagram photo. Wearing a lace beanie by stylist Monica Rose and two bands on her left ring finger, the youngest member of the Kardashian family seems determined to spark controversy however she can. 
 
 Tallulah Willis (left) appears with mom Demi Moore (center) and older sister Scout Willis. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for HL Group) 
 
 DEMI & DAUGHTERS IN REUNION 
 
 Reunited and it feels so good. Tallulah Willis, the troubled 20-year-old daughter of Demi Moore (center) and Bruce Willis, bounced back from a rumored rehab stay to join her mom and older sister Scout at Net-a-Porter’s party for designer Rosetta Getty, who outfitted all three in her luxe separates. Also at the private L.A. event were Marisa Tomei and Camilla Belle. 
 
 Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails privacy policy Thanks for subscribing! ||||| UPDATED, 5:03 PM: The strategy of Bill Cosby’s new lawyers is becoming clear: attack the accusers. With dozens and dozens of women alleging that the comedian sexually assaulted or drugged them over the decades, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan today went after Beverly Johnson for defamation. This comes less than a week after Cosby’s team did the same thing to seven women in federal court in Massachusetts. 
 
 Today’s filing against model and actress Johnson in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here) seeks punitive damages and an injunction preventing her from “continuing to publish her defamatory statements.” Johnson said, initially in a Vanity Fair article and in subsequent interviews, that Cosby drugged her with spiked cappucino at his New York home during the 1980s. It claims she “is no stranger to making salacious allegations even before her false allegations about Mr.Cosby. She previously made allegations of abuse against two of her boyfriends, neither of which resulted in charges or any finding of liability.” It adds that Johnson “has repeated her lies about Mr. Cosby drugging her to every media publication, newspaper, magazine or TV show that will hear her,” including The View, Dr. Phil and Good Morning America. 
 
 PREVIOUSLY, December 14: The once-beloved comedian today says that Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis, and Angela Leslie cost him his comeback. In a court documents Monday, the widely accused Bill Cosby asserts he “neither drugged nor sexually assaulted” the seven women. In fact, Cosby now is suing them back in federal court in Massachusetts for a wide range of damages and injunctions — including publicly “retracting and correcting” their accusations of sexual assault. And he is convinced it was their words and actions that cost him high-profile gigs on NBC and Netflix. 
 
 “Each Counterclaim Defendant induced both NBC and Netflix to postpone or cancel their contracts with Mr. Cosby by engaging in a campaign to assassinate Mr. Cosby’s reputation and character by willfully, maliciously, and falsely accusing Mr. Cosby of multi-decade-old purported sexual misconduct in an opportunistic attempt to extract financial gain from their allegations,” states the counterclaim filing today from Cosby (read it here), who is scheduled to give depositions in the case soon. 
 
 A week before it was set to premiere, Netflix pulled the plugged on an already filmed special with Cosby on November 18, 2014, as the allegations of rape, drugging and more began to rise and rise. The next day, on November 19, NBC, the former home of The Cosby Show, hit halt on a proposed family sitcom with Cosby. Just days later, Cosby’s now-former lawyer Marty Singer called the then-recent accusations from the women in this case “the latest example of people coming out of the woodwork with unsubstantiated or fabricated stories about my client.” Such statements became the basis of the defamation case going on now in New England. 
 
 A case that today Cosby not only denied but flipped around to be about him. 
 
 “Counterclaim Defendants’ false statements were defamatory because they held Mr. Cosby up to hatred, distrust, contempt, disgrace, scorn, and ridicule among considerable and respectable segments of the community, including from the media coverage and public reaction to Counterclaim Defendants’ false and defamatory statements,” the 89-page filing adds. Of course, the part of the risk that Cosby is taking here is he may be required to testify in this case and could find himself answering some very tough questions and accusations under oath. 
 
 “If anyone is surprised by Cosby’s actions today, they shouldn’t be,” said the accusers’ lawyer Joseph Cammarata Monday “He’s taken a page out of the defense attorney’s playbook in an effort to shift the focus of this legitimate inquiry. It is curious that he has filed a claim only against these seven women, when there are scores of other women who have made similar allegations of sexual abuse and assault against Mr. Cosby. My clients remain resolute in their desire to have their day in court, sooner rather than later, and they each expect that their good name and reputation will be restored.” 
 
 Today also saw Cosby stripped of yet another honorary degree, this time from Boston University. With more than 50 women now accusing Cosby of sexual assault, the school said his alleged actions “demonstrates that his character fails to reflect the integrity and virtues that the university values and esteems.” 
 
 This comes as Cosby battles to stop already ordered depositions by himself and Singer in a defamation case by Janice Dickinson. The former America’s Next Top Model judge alleges that Cosby raped her in 1982 and that Singer branded her a “liar” last year when she brought the incident up. Dickinson took the matter to court in May, and in the fall she filed an amended complaint now formally naming Singer a defendant. “Having been unsuccessful in his attempt to get the Massachusetts accusers’ claims thrown out, Bill Cosby’s next aggressive legal move is to countersue them,” noted Dickinson’s attorney Lisa Bloom today. “At least this ensures that the accusers will get the day in court they have been seeking.” 
 
 As the LosAngeles D.A. continues to review a LAPD investigation of claims that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted then-18-year-old model Chloe Goins at a party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008, another potentially damning deposition could become public soon. The comic gave several sworn hours of testimony in October in Boston in the civil case of Judy Huth, who claims Cosby molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15. Like the explosive and now-unsealed 2005 deposition in the Andrea Constand case, where Cosby admitted to having prescriptions for Quaaludes in the 1970s and that he intended to give those pills to women he wanted to have sex with, the Huth deposition could become public next week. That’s all a matter of if the judge in the once-Singer-conducted case deems that material private or not. 
 
 In the case that saw the countersuit today and seeks a wide ranging confidentiality agreement and protective order, Cosby is represented by a legion of lawyers from L.A. firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and Springfield MA’s Egan, Flanagan & Cohen, PC.
– The Hollywood Reporter calls it "uncomfortable footage." And how. The AP yesterday released video shot during a Nov. 6 interview with Bill Cosby and wife Camille about artwork they loaned to the Smithsonian. Historically, and in a recent NPR interview, Cosby has remained silent if the interviewer asks questions about the rape allegations against him; that was not the case here. His comments to the AP reporter, who asked him about the allegations several times: "No, no. We don't answer that. There is no response. There is no comment about that, and I'll tell you why. I think you were told, I don't want to compromise your integrity, but I don't talk about it." As the interview wrapped up, Cosby then asked the reporter to "scuttle" the exchange. "We thought, by the way, because it was AP, that it wouldn't be necessary to go over that [i.e., specifying the topic was off-limits] ... we thought the AP had the integrity to not ask." Cosby then says to someone off-camera, "I think you need to get on the phone with his person immediately," pointing at the reporter. More: TV Land will stop airing reruns of The Cosby Show, immediately and for an indefinite time. The AP notes The Cosby Show had been slated to run as part of a Thanksgiving sitcom marathon. What hasn't been canceled, per the Hollywood Reporter: the comedian's stand-up tour. He's scheduled to appear at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas today. BuzzFeed reported the claims Janice Dickinson made on Tuesday, and got a roughly two-page letter from Martin Singer, Cosby's new attorney, in response. He uses the words "false," "falsity," "fabricated," "fabrication," "lie," and "lying" 19 times to describe Dickinson's allegations, and closes with this: "You proceed at your peril." Raven-Symoné (the Cosby Show's Olivia) is speaking up—and asking to be left out of it all. Her Instagram post: "I was NOT taking advantage of by Mr. Cosby when I was on the Cosby Show! I was practically a baby on that show and this is truly a disgusting rumor that I want no part of! Everyone on that show treated me with nothing but kindness. Now keep me out of this!"