Correction: This story originally said Cosby lawyer Walter M. Phillips Jr. had denied the allegations of Tamara Green in a statement issued during the past week. The statement was made when Green's allegations first surfaced in 2005. The story has been corrected. 
 
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 They didn’t see a comedian. They saw the “king of the world.” 
 
 Long before there was a Dr. Cliff Huxtable, before rumpled sweaters and a collective anointing as America’s dad, Bill Cosby was magnified a hundredfold in the eyes of the young models and actresses he pulled into his orbit. For them, he embodied the hippest of the 1960s and ’70s Hollywood scene, a mega-star with the power to make somebodies out of nobodies. 
 
 He partied with Hugh Hefner and was a regular at the magazine mogul’s Playboy Mansion bacchanals. He co-owned a restaurant and hit the hottest clubs. He sizzled. 
 
 Those wild, largely forgotten days clash with the avuncular image that has been Cosby’s most enduring impression on American culture. And they have been jarringly cast in a wholly different light as a torrent of women have told — and in some cases retold — graphic, highly detailed stories of alleged abuse by Cosby. 
 
 Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, with 12 saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The Washington Post has interviewed five of those women, including a former Playboy Playmate who has never spoken publicly about her allegations. The women agreed to speak on the record and to have their identities revealed. The Post also has reviewed court records that shed light on the accusations of a former director of women’s basketball operations at Temple University who assembled 13 “Jane Doe” accusers in 2005 to testify on her behalf about their allegations against Cosby. 
 
 The accusations, some of which Cosby has denied and others he has declined to discuss, span the arc of the comedy legend’s career, from his pioneering years as the first black star of a network television drama in 1965 to the mid-2000s, when Cosby was firmly entrenched as an elder statesman of the entertainment industry, a scolding public conscience of the African American community and a philanthropist. They also span a monumental generational shift in perceptions — from the sexually unrestrained ’60s to an era when the idea of date rape is well understood. 
 
 The saga of the abuse allegations is set in locales that speak to Cosby’s wealth and fame: a Hollywood-studio bungalow, a chauffeured limousine, luxury hotels, a New York City brownstone. But it also stretches into unexpected places, such as an obscure Denver talent agency that referred two of Cosby’s future accusers to the star for mentoring. 
 
 The allegations are strung together by perceptible patterns that appear and reappear with remarkable consistency: mostly young, white women without family nearby; drugs offered as palliatives; resistance and pursuit; accusers worrying that no one would believe them; lifelong trauma. There is also a pattern of intense response by Cosby’s team of attorneys and publicists, who have used the media and the courts to attack the credibility of his accusers. 
 
 Martin Singer, an attorney for Cosby, issued a statement Friday defending his client and assailing the news media. 
 
 “The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity,” he said. “These brand new claims about alleged decades-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous, and it is completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports to law enforcement or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of so many years. 
 
 “Lawsuits are filed against people in the public eye every day. There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they allege they had been sexually assaulted. 
 
 “This situation is an unprecedented example of the media’s breakneck rush to run stories without any corroboration or adherence to traditional journalistic standards. Over and over again, we have refuted these new unsubstantiated stories with documentary evidence, only to have a new uncorroborated story crop up out of the woodwork. When will it end? It is long past time for this media vilification of Mr. Cosby to stop.” 
 
 During an interview on Friday with Florida Today, Cosby said: “I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos. People should fact-check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.” 
 
 If his accusers are to be believed, the earliest allegations against Cosby remained hidden for decades, private artifacts of an era when women were less likely to publicly accuse men they knew of sexual misdeeds and society was less likely to believe them. But they have flared periodically throughout the past nine years, both because of changing attitudes and, particularly over the past month, because of social media’s ability to transform a story into a viral phenomenon almost impossible to suppress or control. 
 
 The allegations represent a stunning reshaping of Cosby’s legacy. Cosby built his fame on a family-friendly comedic persona. He has lectured black youths about proper behavior. He has been honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom and been lauded for making the largest donation ever by an African American to a historically black college, Spelman College in Atlanta. 
 
 But since the avalanche of accusations this month, there has been mostly thundering silence from his longtime allies. An exception is Weldon Latham, a prominent Washington attorney and Cosby friend. He noted in an interview with The Post that his friend has never been charged with a crime and wondered whether “some of the women coming out now, seem to be making it up.” 
 
 “What you’re hearing is clearly not the entire truth, and how much of it is true, you have no idea,” Latham said. 
 
 “I’m pained,” said Virginia Ali, owner of Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street in Washington, which Cosby has frequented since he was 21. “He has been part of the family for many, many years. I’ve always found him a very kind, generous person. I like to say he shares his humanity.” 
 
 The influential producers of “The Cosby Show,” the ’80s sitcom that made Cosby famous as a family man, issued a brief statement. “These recent news reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension,” Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner said Thursday. 
 
 Cosby was on the verge of what appeared to be a comeback this year, but projects scheduled for NBC and Netflix have been postponed or canceled in the fallout. Several of Cosby’s upcoming comedy shows have been canceled, but when he took the stage Friday in Melbourne, Fla., he received a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd. 
 
 Joan Tarshis alleges that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her when she was a young comedy writer in 1969. (McKenna Ewen and Matt Moyer/The Washington Post) 
 
 The writer 
 
 Americans who sat in front of their television sets on Sept. 15, 1965, had never seen anything like Alexander Scott, the jet-setting international spy. Black stars had appeared on their screens before but never in a leading role, and this one happened to be a 28-year-old comic who just three years earlier had dropped out of Temple University. 
 
 The reaction to Cosby’s breakthrough as a co-star appearing on equal footing with a white actor, Robert Culp, reflected a nation still haltingly emerging from its segregationist past. Some Southern television stations banned the program because of Cosby’s prominent role, but much of the nation embraced it, making “I Spy” a hit. 
 
 “At Howard University, we used to go wild when we saw a soul brother with a gun allowed to shoot back,” Latham once said. 
 
 The Hollywood establishment went wild, too, awarding lead-actor Emmys to Cosby in all three seasons that the program aired. 
 
 Soon he would have his own program (“The Bill Cosby Show”) and all the trappings that went along with it, including his own Hollywood-studio bungalow. A teenage comedy writer named Joan Tarshis was more than thrilled to get an invite to that private hideaway in 1969. 
 
 Tarshis was only 19, but she had already written monologues for Godfrey Cambridge, one of a handful of nationally prominent black comedians in the mid- and late-1960s, she said in an interview with The Post. But getting to hang out with Cosby was almost like taking an express elevator to the penthouse without stopping at the upper floors. 
 
 Cosby was a familiar face on the party circuit, knocking around with Hefner, author Shel Silverstein and John Dante, the second-in-command at Playboy, according to “Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream,” by Steven Watts. 
 
 “Hef and his three buddies loved to fly up to [Playboy’s resort on Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva], catch a show, and throw a party for the Bunnies and performers,” Watts wrote. 
 
 Cosby was also hitting it big with comedy records, though in hindsight one of his riffs seems particularly insensitive. On his 1969 record, “It’s True! It’s True!,” Cosby joked about drugging women with Spanish Fly, a purported aphrodisiac. Cosby tells the story of a character who convinced him of its powers by recounting how he had slipped some into the drink of a woman named “Crazy Mary.” After that, Cosby said, he’d “go to a party, see five girls standing alone” and think, “Boy, if I had a whole jug of Spanish Fly I’d light that corner up over there.” The audience roars with laughter. 
 
 At a lunch at Cosby’s bungalow, Tarshis recalled, he urged her to mix a beer with her bloody mary. 
 
 “We call that a redeye,” she said he told her. 
 
 Cosby invited her to the set of his new show, and then went back to his bungalow to work on some jokes about earthquakes, since Los Angeles had recently been hit by tremors. 
 
 “I said, ‘Sure!’ ” recalled Tarshis, who first disclosed her accusations this month in a column for the Web site Hollywood Elsewhere. “I mean, I had written for Godfrey Cambridge and now I was going to write for Bill Cosby!” 
 
 In the bungalow, Tarshis said, Cosby made her another redeye. “I don’t know what was in that drink, but it knocked me out. The next thing I remember after having that drink was waking up on his couch,” she said. “I was really foggy. He was trying to take my underwear off.” 
 
 She tried to talk her way out of an unwanted sexual encounter, she said. She made up a story about having a genital infection. 
 
 “‘If you have sex with me, your wife will know,’ ” she recalled telling him. “He didn’t miss a beat. He knew exactly how to respond. He made me give him oral sex. It was pretty horrible.” 
 
 She told no one. Instead, she went home to Brooklyn. 
 
 A few weeks later, Cosby called her house and spoke to her mother, who had no idea what had allegedly happened on that couch in the bungalow, Tarshis said. Cosby told Tarshis’s mother that he wanted to take her daughter to the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island to hear him deliver a monologue to which Tarshis had made a small writing contribution. 
 
 “She was over the moon,” Tarshis said of her mother. “She was so excited.” 
 
 Looking back through the prism of four decades, Tarshis, now 66, wonders why she went. “I didn’t know how to handle it,” she said. “I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to be in a theater. It’s going to be safe.’ I didn’t see any way out.” 
 
 A limousine picked her up at her mother’s and took her to Cosby’s New York hotel room at the Sherry-Netherland, Tarshis recalled. Tarshis — who has acknowledged having a drinking problem but says she has been sober since 1988 — remembered being “nervous and uncomfortable.” She had a drink with him to calm down because she was so uneasy about being in his presence after the first alleged assault, she said. By the time they got to the theater, she was feeling so unsteady that she had to leave, she said. She asked the limousine driver to take her back to the car. She lay down. 
 
 “The next thing I know, I’m in his hotel room, in his bed, naked,” Tarshis said. 
 
 She said she believed he had sexually assaulted her. 
 
 “My first thought was, ‘How do I get out of here?’ ” she said. “Also, ‘How do I get out of here safely?’ I didn’t want to aggravate him. I didn’t know what he’d do.” 
 
 John Milward, a freelance reporter and author, confirmed that Tarshis told him about her Cosby allegations in the early 1980s, though he never wrote about them. And, Tarshis said, she never contacted the police. 
 
 “Who was going to believe me?” she said. “If he was a regular joe, I might have done something.” 
 
 One of Cosby’s attorneys, John Schmitt, issued a statement this past week saying that repeating old allegations “does not make them true.” 
 
 Timeline: Bill Cosby's life A compilation of significant personal and professional events, including the allegations of sexual assault that have recently become public. 
 
 
 
 The waitress 
 
 She wanted an adventure. With high school graduation behind her, Linda Traitz and a group of friends left Miami Beach in 1969 to see what it would be like to live in California. 
 
 She took a job as a waitress. It wasn’t about the job; it was about the place, a place filled with stars, a place that glittered. 
 
 Traitz worked at Cafe Figaro, a West Hollywood spot that was notable, in part, because of Cosby, who co-owned it and made it his hangout for business meetings. 
 
 “I was young and star-struck,” Traitz, now 63, recalled in an interview with The Post. 
 
 Traitz’s year of ad­ven­ture coincided with Cosby’s emergence as a solo phenomenon. He was no longer Culp’s co-star or merely a clever comic; he was showing he could do it all: conceive, write and act. NBC debuted an animated TV movie version of his brainchild, “Fat Albert.” His situation comedy, “The Bill Cosby Show,” launched, and he was about to win his fourth Emmy for a television special he headlined. He even did a Crest toothpaste ad. Everything he touched glistened. 
 
 In the midst of all that, Traitz said, Cosby chatted her up one day at his restaurant and offered a ride home. She could not have imagined saying anything but yes. 
 
 The minutiae of that day are carved into her mind. She even remembers what she was wearing: a long “hippie days” peasant skirt. She climbed into Cosby’s Rolls Royce and he suggested they drive out to the beach, Traitz recalled. Once they parked at the beach, he opened a briefcase, she said. 
 
 “It had assorted sections in it, with pills and tablets in it, different colors arranged and assorted into compartments,” she recalled. “He offered me pills and said it would help me to relax, and I kept refusing but he kept offering.” 
 
 Cosby “lunged” at her, she said, “grabbed my chest, grabbed me in the front all over.” 
 
 “I was crying and horrified,” she said. She broke free, she said, and tumbled out of the car. She ran down the beach with Cosby in pursuit, but she tripped on that long peasant skirt and fell onto the sand, she said. 
 
 Cosby agreed to take her home. Her skirt was torn. Walking back to the car, they passed a block filled with shops. Cosby bought her a new skirt, she said. 
 
 They rode in silence. “He froze me out,” she said. He never tried anything again, she said, but Traitz could not keep the incident to herself. She told her co-workers and her family what happened at the time. She decided not to go to the police. 
 
 “It was a different time,” her brother, Jim Traitz, told The Post. “We all also knew this was a really big guy with a big PR operation and lawyers, and that he could crush us — that he would crush us — and her.” 
 
 Life has not been easy for Linda Traitz, who has a history of drug addiction. In the past decade, she has amassed a criminal record with multiple convictions, mostly related to prescription drugs, according to Florida court records. She received a five-year prison term, serving from 2008 to 2012. 
 
 “I know there will be people who are going to say: ‘You have a drug problem. Why should we believe you?’ ” she said of her decision to go public now. 
 
 Just as the allegations against Cosby span generational shifts in attitudes about what constitutes out-of-bounds behavior, they also span historic shifts in how information is disseminated. At the time when Traitz alleges Cosby assaulted her, there was no such thing as social media. 
 
 But this month, two events compelled her to make a public statement. First, the comedian Hannibal Buress touched off a social-media frenzy by asking an audience at one of his shows to Google “Bill Cosby rapist.” Then, on Nov. 13, The Post published a first-person account by another accuser, Barbara Bowman. Traitz, furious about the attacks on Bowman and other Cosby accusers, posted her story on Facebook. 
 
 Singer, Cosby’s attorney, called Traitz “the latest example of people coming out of the woodwork with unsubstantiated or fabricated stories about my client.” 
 
 He added, “There was no briefcase of drugs and the story is absurd.” 
 
 Victoria Valentino alleges that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her in 1970 — shortly after the death of her young son.​ (Jorge Ribas and Ann Johansson/The Washington Post) 
 
 The Playmates 
 
 Victoria Valentino was living what appeared to be a version of the Hollywood dream. Playboy magazine picked her as Playmate of the Month for September 1963 when she was just 19. The next year, she helped open the original Playboy Club as a bunny on the Sunset Strip on New Year’s Eve. 
 
 But by the end of the decade, she had drifted away from those glitzy heights, she recalled in an interview with The Post. In September 1969, her 6-year-old son, Tony, had drowned in a swimming pool. She battled a deep depression, she recalled. 
 
 Francesca Emerson, a fellow Playboy bunny who befriended Valentino at the Playboy Club, sensed her despondency. Emerson, who is black, said she was one of the first “chocolate Bunnies” of the 1960s and had trained Valentino in her role as a “Bunny instructor.” 
 
 Emerson had a plan to lift Valentino’s spirits. “I want you to meet my friend, Bill Cosby,” she said. 
 
 Emerson and Cosby had hit it off at the Playboy Club. “He always gave me $100 tips, and he tried to get me to come down to the studio to read for his show, but I was always so nervous.” 
 
 After Emerson lost her job at the club in 1968, she said, a chauffeur arrived at her home and handed her an envelope. Inside was $1,000 and a note. “This is for you so you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. Love, Cos,” Emerson said it read. 
 
 “That’s the Bill Cosby I knew,” Emerson said. “He was a perfect gentleman.” 
 
 She said she introduced her “stunning” friend Valentino to Cosby in January 1970 at Cafe Figaro. Weeks later, she said, she met Cosby there again. Valentino said she was with her friend and roommate at the time, an aspiring actress named Meg Foster. She said Cosby offered to pay for massages for the women at a local spa and then sent a limousine to pick them up for dinner. 
 
 Valentino said they had dinner at a restaurant called Sneaky Pete’s. They ordered steaks and wine, and toward the end of dinner, Valentino said, Cosby offered her and Foster red pills. 
 
 “He was trying to cheer me up, and he stuck a pill in my mouth,” she said. “He said, ‘This will make us all feel better.’ ” 
 
 She and Foster each took a pill, and Cosby did, too, she said. 
 
 “We were slurring words. I couldn’t function,” she recalled, adding that Cosby said he would take them home but instead drove them to an apartment in the hills above the Chateau Marmont hotel. Valentino said Cosby wanted to show them some memorabilia from “I Spy.” 
 
 Once inside, Valentino said, Foster passed out. The room was spinning, and Valentino said she remembered feeling as if she was going to throw up. She said she saw Cosby sitting in a love seat near Foster and she noticed that he had an erection. 
 
 “I reached out, grabbing him, trying to get his attention, trying to distract him,” Valentino said. “He came over to me and sat down on the love seat and opened his fly and grabbed my head and pushed my head down. And then he turned me over. It was like a waking nightmare.” 
 
 She protested but could not stop him, she said. Cosby slipped out alone, telling Valentino to call a cab if she wanted to go home, she said. 
 
 Valentino said she never called the police. “What kind of credibility did I have?” she said. “In those days, it was always the rape victim who wound up being victimized. You didn’t want to go to the police. That’s the last thing you wanted to do back then.” 
 
 She was too embarrassed to tell most of her friends, but she did tell Emerson — the woman who had introduced her to Cosby. 
 
 Emerson, who lives in Australia, confirmed Valentino’s recollection in an interview with The Post. 
 
 “I remember she said that he had drugged her and she came to and he was trying to rape Meg and she pulled him off,” Emerson said. “But I feel devastated that I didn’t do anything or say anything.” 
 
 Foster, an actress known for roles in TV shows such as “Cagney and Lacey” and movies including “The Osterman Weekend,” declined an interview request. 
 
 In 1996, Valentino was contacted by another former Playboy Playmate, Charlotte Kemp, Miss December 1982, who said she was writing a book called “Centerfold Memories,” which is due out in February. 
 
 In an interview, Kemp — whose real last name is Helmkamp — said she videotaped an interview with Valentino during which she talked about her alleged encounter with Cosby. Helmkamp said the account she gave matches the account Valentino provided to The Post. 
 
 Valentino, now 71, said she decided to come forward after seeing Bowman’s allegations in The Post. 
 
 “Every time I hear his name mentioned and see him getting an honorary doctorate and see him as this father figure, it makes me nauseated,” Valentino said. “It’s so humiliating. Forty-four years later it makes me feel shameful.” 
 
 When contacted by The Post about Valentino’s allegations, Cosby’s attorney responded by issuing the broad denial to the recent accusations. 
 
 The protege 
 
 He liked to watch her brush her hair, Tamara Green recalled. Cosby would sit and watch her pull the brush through her long, thick blond locks as she sang lyrics made famous by the sultry, smoky-voiced jazz great Julie London. 
 
 “You need to be taught. You need to be groomed,” Green remembered him telling her. 
 
 Green was in her early 20s when she met Cosby through a mutual friend, a Los Angeles doctor, she said. “He was king of the world,” Green said in an interview with The Post. “Full of himself. ‘I Spy.’ Man about town.” 
 
 When Green met Cosby — in 1969 or 1970, she said — she was doing some modeling and singing. Los Angeles felt like the host of one long, awesome party. Knowing Cosby made it even more awesome. 
 
 “We slept all day and were up all night,” Green said. 
 
 It was a “very hippie-dippy, very free-love” time, Green said. The big shots in her circle of celebrity friends kept “stables of girls,” Green said. “They had a total disrespect for the girls.” Green did not want to be Cosby’s girl. 
 
 
 
 Cosby poses with comedian Phyllis Diller at Hollywood’s Cocoanut Grove in the mid-1960s. (Murray Garrett/Getty Images) 
 
 Cosby won the first of three consecutive Emmys for his role in "I Spy" in 1966. He was the first black actor to win an Emmy for a leading role in a television series. (Associated Press) 
 
 Green went to work for Cosby in the early 1970s, she said. She was supposed to be raising money from investors for a new club Cosby intended to open. 
 
 She called Cosby one day to say she was feeling sick and was going to go home. He told her she would feel better if she ate something and invited her to join him at Cafe Figaro, she said. When she arrived, he gave her some red and gray pills, saying they were over-the-counter decongestants, she recalled. 
 
 Cosby drove Green to her apartment and she started to feel woozy, she said. “I remember him being all smarmy: ‘Let me help you take off all your clothes,’ ” she recalled. 
 
 “I couldn’t control my body. I couldn’t run,” Green recalled. “. . . He was naked. I was naked on my bed. His hands were all over me.” 
 
 Cosby penetrated her vagina with his fingers and fondled his penis in front of her, Green said. She screamed in protest, she said. “You’re going to have to kill me,” she remembers telling him. But he would not stop, she said, until she managed to upend a table lamp. 
 
 Cosby tossed down two $100 bills as he left, a gesture that Green took as a deep insult, she said. She did not think of herself as a girl who could be bought, but she felt helpless to do anything. She feared Cosby’s power. But there was another thing that she fretted about. Her young brother was dying from cystic fibrosis, and the day after the alleged incident, Cosby visited him at the children’s hospital where he was being treated, showing up with gifts and entertaining the other young patients, Green said. Her brother adored the star, and knowing Cosby gave him a certain cachet in the hospital ward and garnered him extra attention from nurses in his final days, she said. She worried about jeopardizing all that. 
 
 Green, now 66, went on to become an attorney and got married. She is retired in Southern California, where she grapples with Parkinson’s disease and with the echoes of that long-ago alleged incident. She said she is forever checking the perimeter of her home. She still sleeps in her clothes. 
 
 A previous Cosby attorney, Walter M. Phillips Jr., has called Green’s allegations “absolutely false.” 
 
 “Mr. Cosby does not know the name Tamara Green or Tamara Lucier [her maiden name] and the incident she describes did not happen,” Phillips said in a statement issued in 2005 when the allegations first surfaced. He said it was “irresponsible” to publish an “uncorroborated story of an incident that is alleged to have happened thirty years ago.” 
 
 Cosby’s legal team has also questioned Green’s credibility because her law license was suspended in 2004. Green said that the suspension resulted from an overdraft related to her depositing a retainer check in the wrong account and that her license was reinstated. 
 
 Cosby’s team has also used legal-ethics issues to question the credibility of a more recent accuser who is now a lawyer — Louisa Moritz, an actress who appeared in the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” On Thursday, Moritz told the Web site TMZ that Cosby forced her to have oral sex in a dressing room of “The Tonight Show” in 1971. Singer, Cosby’s attorney, questioned her credibility because she had been disciplined by the California State Bar last year in a dispute over a legal fee. 
 
 
 
 Cosby and his future wife, Camille, met on a blind date in 1963 in Washington. They were married the next year. He was 26, and she was 19. They are pictured here at Cocoanut Grove in 1967. (Max B. Miller/Fotos International via Getty Images) 
 
 Cosby and his wife early this month. Throughout his 1989 book, “Love and Marriage,” he paints his wife as ruler of the roost, and he has said he modeled the TV character of Clair Huxtable on Camille. Like the TV characters, the couple had five children. (Evan Vucci/AP) 
 
 His wife 
 
 In 1971, seven years after their wedding, Cosby’s wife, Camille, remained committed to making their marriage work despite the distractions of Hollywood. They had met on a blind date at a bowling alley in the spring of 1963. He was a 25-year-old comedian who was in Washington for a gig at the Shadows, a small club in Georgetown. She was a teenage University of Maryland student. 
 
 The parents of Camille Hanks worried she was too young. But the couple — whose early dates often ended at Ben’s Chili Bowl — began a long-distance relationship when Cosby returned to New York. The next year, Camille dropped out of college and her parents reluctantly gave their blessing to their 19-year-old daughter’s marriage. 
 
 The ceremony, performed by Father Carl Dianda, was held in a large multipurpose hall at a Catholic church in Olney, Md. 
 
 “They were well matched,” Dianda, who had three premarital meetings in the rectory with the young couple, said in an interview with The Post. “She was one of the most beautiful in that parish,” Dianda said, recalling that Cosby introduced himself to the priest by handing him one of his comedic records. 
 
 Their move to Los Angeles as Cosby’s career rocketed in the mid- and late-1960s required adjustments. “All of a sudden we were successful people,” Camille Cosby recalled in an interview with Stephanie Stokes Oliver of Essence. “All of a sudden we had money coming in, and it changed our lives.” 
 
 It’s unclear how much Camille knew about her husband’s activities during the Los Angeles years. Six of the sexual-abuse allegations against Cosby date to that period — Tarshis, Traitz, Green, Valentino and two other women: Carla Ferrigno, the future wife of “Incredible Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno, told KFI Radio that Cosby tried to assault her at his house in 1967. And Kristina Ruehli, now a 71-year-old grandmother of eight, told Philadelphia Magazine that she believes Cosby drugged her two years earlier and forced her to perform oral sex on him when she awoke. 
 
 By 1971, the couple decided they needed to make a change. Camille would move with their three children to Shelburne Falls, Mass., and Cosby would shuttle between Los Angeles, where he would continue working, and the new family home. Camille wanted to extract her family from the toxic Hollywood culture that she felt had facilitated her husband’s “selfish” behavior, according to a biography of Cosby by former Newsweek managing editor Mark Whitaker that was published this month. 
 
 The move gave Cosby an opportunity to live a kind of double life, Whitaker writes. In the East, Cosby was a family man studying for his PhD at the University of Massachusetts, raising money for Temple University scholarships and making a documentary about convicts seeking redemption. In the West, he could revel in “self-indulgence,” Whitaker writes. Later, Cosby would have a long run of comedy shows in Las Vegas, still far from his family. “After his second show was done, he could often be found playing blackjack or craps into the wee hours, betting thousands of dollars as well-liquored men and flirtatious women egged him on,” Whitaker wrote. 
 
 With his wife more than 3,000 miles away, Cosby began an affair with Shawn Berkes, a secretary he met at a Los Angeles nightclub. Berkes later confronted Cosby and said that she had given birth to his child. 
 
 The timing of that confrontation seems to coincide with a “turning point” at the 10-year mark in the Cosby marriage that was mentioned many years later by Camille Cosby in an interview. She told Oprah Winfrey that she and her husband had weathered some “selfish” behavior but opted to recommit to their relationship. 
 
 In a court case more than two decades after Cosby’s affair, he testified that he paid $100,000 to keep his extramarital relationship secret. Berkes’s daughter — Autumn Jackson, who was by then an adult — would serve a prison term for extortion. Camille Cosby made it clear in her Winfrey interview that she was aware of the affair long before the extortion attempt. 
 
 By the 1970s, Cosby’s career had slowed. His 1972 comedy-variety show lasted one season, and by 1974 he was turning to corporate advertising deals, including one that would define him almost as much as any television role he had played: serving as a television spokesman for Jell-O. 
 
 With his career in a lull, Cosby renewed his pledges to his family. When he turned 40 in 1977, he vowed to “cut back” his “playboy ways,” according to the Whitaker biography. He would focus on his family and children. 
 
 Throughout Cosby’s 1989 book, “Love and Marriage,” he paints his wife as ruler of the roost, and has said he modeled the TV character of Clair Huxtable on Camille, who was also a graceful mother of five. But unlike Clair, a successful lawyer, for many years Camille did not have a career outside the home. 
 
 Their family life, however, was not the stuff of television sitcoms. Erinn Cosby, the family’s second-oldest daughter, was estranged from her father in the late 1980s. Bill Cosby told the Los Angeles Times: “She can’t come here. She’s not a person you can trust.” The family blamed the separation on drugs, which Erinn later denied. 
 
 Barbara Bowman says she is “certain” Bill Cosby drugged and raped her when she was a teenaged actor in the 1980s. (Erin O'Connor and McKenna Ewen/The Washington Post) 
 
 The agency 
 
 Jo Farrell pursued clients so relentlessly that she became known as the “Red-headed Barracuda.” She operated her JF Images talent agency far from Hollywood in Denver, but she wielded such clout that she could make or break careers. 
 
 Farrell plays one of the more unusual roles in the decades-long drama of Cosby and his accusers. She referred two women to Cosby who later alleged he sexually abused them: Barbara Bowman and Beth Ferrier. 
 
 Farrell is now 83 and suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s, according to her daughter, Kathleen, who said in a recent interview with The Post that her mother retired five years ago and knew nothing about the claims of sexual abuse until they appeared in People magazine in 2006. “It’s mind-boggling,” Jo Farrell told the magazine at the time. “I don’t set up interviews in bars. Here I am pulled in on this, and it makes me sad because my reputation has always been golden in this city.” 
 
 Farrell’s relationship to Cosby dates back decades. She first met him at the Turn of the Century nightclub, which was near her talent agency. Kathleen Farrell said Cosby worked with a number of the agency’s young female clients through the years, taking them on outings and asking them to auditions. She said she had heard allegations that other men — photographers and bookers — had abused actresses. But she said her mother never mentioned any complaints about Cosby. If she had heard complaints, she said, her mother would have severed her relationship with Cosby “to protect the girls.” 
 
 “Nobody ever addressed with her that there was an issue,” Kathleen Farrell said. “She’s a mother hen; she would have addressed it.” 
 
 Farrell discovered Bowman, then 13, at a 1980 beauty pageant. 
 
 “She pulled me over and said, ‘What’s your name?’ ” Bowman, now 47, recalled in an interview. “She said I looked like a movie star. That was quite a compliment for a scrawny little kid trying to make it. . . . I was feeling really glamorous.” 
 
 She said Cosby came to town in 1984 and Farrell took Bowman, now 17, to a comedy club for an audition. Bowman said she prepared a monologue and performed before one of the most famous comedians in the country in a small conference room tucked away inside the comedy club. 
 
 But she made an impression. Both Farrell and Cosby gushed that she was destined for big things in the business and advised that she move to New York, where she could hone her craft. Cosby also brought her to the New York set of “The Cosby Show.” 
 
 “That was the bait: the promise of an audition, being seen and adored by a big name,” Bowman said. “And he enjoyed knowing that people knew he was the one who was discovering hot new talent. 
 
 She said she was “terrified” of Cosby and Farrell. “They isolated me and made me totally dependent on them,” she said. 
 
 At the time, Cosby was in the process of becoming the biggest television star in the world. “The Cosby Show” had debuted the year before, introducing viewers to his career-defining role as Cliff Huxtable. 
 
 “At a time when the situation comedy was supposed to be moribund on television, ‘The Cosby Show’ has leapt to No. 1 in a single season,” New York Times critic John J. Connor wrote in May 1985. “At a time when blacks were once again being considered ratings liabilities by benighted television executives, the middle-class Huxtables have become the most popular family in the United States. And at a time when so many comedians are toppling into a kind of smutty permissiveness, Mr. Cosby is making the nation laugh by paring ordinary life to its extraordinary essentials. It is indeed a truly nice development.” 
 
 Bowman said she saw an entirely different persona from the one Cosby played on television. Once, while at his brownstone in New York City, she said she blacked out after one glass of wine and awoke to find herself wearing nothing but her underpants and a man’s T-shirt. 
 
 In another alleged incident in Atlantic City, she said Cosby pinned her down on a hotel bed while she screamed for help and he struggled to pull down his pants. 
 
 “I furiously tried to wrestle from his grasp until he eventually gave up,” she said in an interview with The Post. 
 
 Cosby called her “a baby,” Bowman said, then he told her to go home to Denver. 
 
 At first, Bowman said she was in denial that the alleged assaults had taken place. She then convinced herself that she did what she needed to do to make it in the entertainment business. She said she also became financially dependent on Cosby and her agent. 
 
 “They were subsidizing me in New York until I started booking jobs,” she said. 
 
 When asked why she did not come forward sooner, Bowman said she did not think anyone would believe her. 
 
 Cosby’s attorneys had previously called her claims “absolutely untrue.” 
 
 In the years after the alleged assault of Bowman, Cosby rose to heights that were almost unimaginable. In 1987, “The Cosby Show” went into syndication, and within five years it had pulled in $1 billion in syndication fees, with hundreds of millions reportedly going to Cosby. 
 
 By 1992, Camille had earned a doctorate in education. She would go on to produce an award-winning play and co-found a project to preserve African American history. Still, her professional interests melded with her husband’s. Much of Camille’s work stems from research for her dissertation, which focused on the impact negative images of black people on television have on the self-perception of young blacks. 
 
 The rest of the decade would produce some of the most painful moments for Cosby and his family. In 1997, he endured the revelation of his long-secret affair with Berkes, whose name was then Shawn Upshaw. But his world was shaken by the murder of his 28-year-old son, Ennis Cosby, during an attempted robbery on a Los Angeles freeway in January 1997. 
 
 Camille Cosby paired those two signal moments in a poignant and sometimes biting editorial published by USA Today in 1997. 
 
 Less than a month after her son’s death, she wrote, “Ennis William Cosby did not have a mother. I was a nonentity, an un-person. Yet, when my husband made his more than famous confession to the public about a brief 1970s liaison, my name was printed everywhere. Suddenly, I became well known; not as an intelligent person, but for reasons obviously undesirable.” 
 
 Of her marriage, she wrote: “Bill and I were very young when we married; he was 26, I was 19. We had to mature, we had to learn the definition of unselfish love, and we did. When we committed to each other wholeheartedly years ago, our marriage became healthy and solid. Also, we blossomed as individuals. Our marriage encompasses mutual love, respect, trust and communication. Sound relationships must have positive reciprocity; they can’t be one-sided and strong.” 
 
 The lawsuit 
 
 Andrea Constand was stressed. She held down a big job at Temple University as operations director of the women’s basketball team. But she wanted career advice, according to court documents in a 2005 civil suit that Constand filed against Cosby. She decided to confide in a man who had not only become her close friend but was also Temple royalty. 
 
 Cosby had attended Temple before dropping out in the early 1960s to pursue his comedy career, but he had remained in close contact with his hometown university, serving on the board of trustees since the early 1980s. 
 
 Constand became friends with Cosby a year after her arrival on the Philadelphia campus in 2001. They sometimes dined alone together, according to court records. 
 
 
 
 In January 2004, court records state, Cosby invited Andrea Constand to his home (photographed this past week) in Cheltenham, Pa., outside Philadelphia. Constand alleged that Cosby offered her three blue pills and, when they took effect, sexually assaulted her. (Jim Graham/For The Washington Post) 
 
 Temple University says Cosby remains a trustee of the Philadelphia institution despite renewed scrutiny of sexual-assault allegations against him. Cosby had attended Temple before dropping out in the early 1960s but has remained in close contact with his hometown university. (Matt Rourke/AP) 
 
 In January 2004, the records state, Cosby invited her to his home in suburban Philadelphia. Constand alleges that Cosby offered her three blue pills. He said they were an herbal medication and would relax her, according to her court filing; she hesitated but finally took his advice. 
 
 Within a short period of time, her “knees began to shake, her limbs felt immobile, she felt dizzy and weak, and she began to feel only barely conscious,” Constand’s attorneys wrote. 
 
 Constand accused Cosby of leading her to a sofa, then touching “her breasts and vaginal area.” She said he “rubbed his penis against her hand, and digitally penetrated her,” the court records state. 
 
 All the while, she “remained in a semi-conscious state,” her attorneys wrote. 
 
 Constand said she lost consciousness afterward until 4 a.m., when she awoke “feeling raw in and around her vaginal area,” the court records state. Also, “her clothes and undergarments were in disarray,” according to the records. 
 
 When she awoke, there was Cosby, she said. He was in his bathrobe, the court records state. She said she left. 
 
 According to court records, Cosby said he and Constand spent time together, but his attorneys denied the claims that he drugged and assaulted her. He said he had merely given her 11/2 tablets of Benadryl, an over-the-counter antihistamine. 
 
 In Cosby’s account of his evening with Constand during the court case, he denied appearing in only his bathrobe and he said he gave her a “homemade blueberry muffin and a cup of hot tea,” according to court records. 
 
 Constand, now 41, went on to leave her job at Temple, moving back to her native Canada. One year later, in January 2005, she filed a complaint against Cosby with a police department in Ontario. 
 
 That complaint was followed by a criminal inquiry in Montgomery County, Pa. Law enforcement officials interviewed Constand and Cosby. 
 
 “I thought, in my gut, that she was telling the truth,” Bruce L. Castor Jr., the Montgomery County district attorney at the time, said in a recent interview with The Post. “I was absolutely certain that she believed that Cosby had taken advantage of her, but there were not enough details.” 
 
 Castor lacked physical evidence, and he thought any possible case would be hampered by the long delay in filing a complaint. In February 2005, he announced that he would not be prosecuting Cosby. 
 
 After the 2005 criminal case was resolved, Cosby resumed a tough-love tour he had put on hold when news of Constand’s allegations broke. The national tour consisted of free speeches where large audiences gathered to hear Cosby speak about the failures of black parents and black youths. He had been ridiculing African American politicians, accusing them of too often blaming “systematic racism” for his community’s problems. 
 
 But the next month, Cosby’s own actions were again scrutinized. And this time, it would not be just one woman pointing a finger at him. Constand’s civil lawsuit, filed in March 2005, would eventually include 13 Jane Does who agreed to testify against Cosby. The women came from points across the country: Ventura, Calif.; Monument, Colo.; Spring Hill, Fla. 
 
 Green, the onetime model who had said Cosby had drugged her in the early 1970s, had offered to testify without maintaining anonymity. All told, Green said she has spoken with 20 accusers; all of them, she said, asserted that they had been drugged by the comedian. 
 
 Constand’s attorneys were spotting patterns, too. In their court filings, they asserted that a common theme among the Jane Does was that “they were victimized after being conned by the Cosby image.” 
 
 In court documents, Cosby’s attorneys said their client “vigorously denies” her allegations that he “drugged her and sexually assaulted her” and “adamantly denies engaging in sexual misconduct.” 
 
 In November 2006, Constand and Cosby reached an undisclosed settlement. Constand and her attorney declined to be interviewed for this article. 
 
 Constand’s settlement largely made the Cosby story go away. There would be isolated reports, but the image of Cosby as an accused sex offender seemed destined to be relegated to a historical footnote until the jokes by Buress — a popular but hardly A-list 31-year-old comedian — went viral this month. 
 
 Since then, the names of nine more accusers have surfaced, including the model Janice Dickinson, who told “Entertainment Tonight” that Cosby drugged and raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982. To back up her accusation, she produced Polaroids of Cosby in a checkered robe. 
 
 Cosby’s attorneys rushed to keep pace with the allegations, repeatedly saying they had no merit. “Janice Dickinson’s story accusing Bill Cosby of rape is a complete lie,” Singer said in a statement. 
 
 Three of the women who spoke to The Post — Traitz, Tarshis and Valentino — also made their first widely distributed public statements about the allegations this month. 
 
 At the two university campuses most associated with Cosby, there was a pinched terseness from administrators. Temple would say only that Cosby remained on its board. Two weeks after Buress’s comedy routine reignited the sex-allegations controversy, a Temple student, Grace Holleran, published an editorial in the school newspaper calling on university officials to stop supporting Cosby. The university “seems to be banking on Cosby’s star power, remembering him for his colorful sweaters and Pudding Pops as it fails to acknowledge his muddy backstory,” Holleran wrote. 
 
 At Spelman College — where Cosby made history in 1988 with a $20 million donation, the largest by an African American to a historically black college — the president’s office would not say whether the endowed professorship named for Cosby and his wife would continue. 
 
 The educator who holds that endowed chair at Spelman predicted in an interview that the sexual-assault allegations ultimately would not define Cosby. 
 
 “I’m not worried about being the Cosby chair,” said Aku Kadogo, Spelman’s Cosby Endowed Professor in the Arts. “It’s not a worry to me. It’s a difficult time for him. But it ain’t the end of the world. If Hillary can run for president — she went through all that rigmarole. People forget easily.” 
 
 But, in the universe of Bill Cosby, it has become clear that not everyone forgets. 
 
 Amy Argetsinger, Alice Crites, Simone Sebastian, Peggy McGlone, Krissah Thompson, Magda Jean-Louis and Adam Kushner in Washington, Karen Heller in Philadelphia and Geoff Edgers in Melbourne, Fla., contributed to this report. ||||| Carla Ferrigno, wife of The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, has revealed that Bill Cosby used a 'friend' to pick her up and arrange for her to meet the star. 
 
 After a night out with Cosby and his wife Camille, they went to Cosby's home in Los Angeles where Camille retired, her date left the room and Cosby tried to have his way with her. 
 
 Carla Ferrigno, in an exclusive interview with MailOnline, says she was still in her teens when Cosby tried to sexually assault her. 
 
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 Carla Ferrigno, in an exclusive interview with MailOnline, says she was just still in her teens but over 18 when Cosby tried to sexually assault her 
 
 What did Camille know? She was out with Carla, her 'date,' and Bill and knew she was in the house when she retired for the night 
 
 Lou Ferrigno played The Incredible Hulk on TV from 1977 to 1982 
 
 'What happened is I was Kentucky on vacation to see my family. I got back to LAX [airport] and this man maybe 30s, he came over to me and said he would love to have my phone number and take me to dinner sometime.' 
 
 This was in 1967 and Carla was a Playboy Bunny in Los Angeles working at the Playboy Club. 
 
 'I was used to that. So I said ok,' she said. 
 
 'He called me about a week later and we went to dinner. We had a very nice time. Very nice man. And then he said to me after dinner, "My close friend is Bill Cosby and I was wondering if you might want to go to his house." 
 
 I said, "sure", so I went over there with him. His wife was there. 
 
 'And he was there. Camille. I can't remember anyone's name anymore, but I remember hers. I will never forget her. 
 
 'We were there not even 10 minutes there and Bill suggested we go the movies. 
 
 'He talked to me a lot at the movies. I was uncomfortable with that because his wife was there. But he was funny. He was fun. 
 
 'So it was suggested we go back to his house to play some pool. And I loved that idea. I was the pool bunny at the Playboy Club. I was very good at pool. 
 
 'I grew up with my mom in a bar that she owned so I was playing pool at seven. I was pretty good' 
 
 She and her date and Bill started to play pool and in the middle of the game, she looks up and asked where Camille was. 
 
 Bodybuilder Lou works out with Carla Green i 
 
 'She's probably gone to bed,' Cosby told her. 
 
 'Things are starting to feel odd now. I'm from the South and you always say good night to your guests so I asked, "Why didn't she say goodnight?"' 
 
 'He said she was probably tired so I kept watching them play. And then Bill won, so Bill and I played. And pretty soon I noticed that the guy disappeared and I asked where he went, 
 
 'He told me 'probably to the bathroom'. 
 
 'Things really seemed odder now. We kept playing. Bill beat me. And just as I was ready to put the pool cue down he came forward at me. I thought he was reaching for the pool cue. But he came at me and grabbed me in such a powerful way. Grabbing me. 
 
 I had never been treated so roughly and he pulled me hard to him, so hard. 
 
 'He was much bigger than me. Much bigger and he pulled me so hard and so rough. I had never been treated so roughly and he pulled me hard to him so hard. 
 
 'And then kissed me so hard, right in the mouth. No one has ever been that physically violent with me. 
 
 'I was stunned. I was frozen. I took all my body strength and used both of my arms to stop him and push him away from me. He was so forceful. 
 
 'And I said, "What are you doing?'" He just looked at me. 
 
 'He said, 'What's your problem?' And I didn't know what to say. I said, 'I've never been kissed by a black man before.' 
 
 And he said, "How was it?" And I said,"Just the same." 
 
 'He glared at me and in this very mean tone said, 'Obviously it isn't, or you wouldn't have made that comment.' 
 
 Bill Cosby's home is vacated as the recent sexual assault allegations against him continue 
 
 The couple in 1980 with and their three-month-old baby daughter, Shanna. They have two other children 
 
 'I just ran. I just took off down the hallway, and I saw my friend show up in the hallway, I knew right then, that he knew, he knew why he was bringing me here.' 
 
 She told him she wanted to go home. They didn't talk about what happened. He took her home and she never saw that man again. 
 
 I want to address every woman in America to come forward so this sort of thing doesn't happen again. Any woman who was hurt by this man needs to stand up and speak out. No more. No more. 
 
 'Since then, when I've thought about it, I look back and think, after that 'push' when I pushed him away and he was staring at me, he was evaluating me. 
 
 'He tried to give me drinks.' 
 
 She said no and then he asked if she wanted any other kind of drink, and she refused. 
 
 'I wasn't one of the vulnerable ones. I wasn't one of the ones he was going to get. 
 
 Carla says she never told her husband about what happened. 'I didn't tell even him (meaning Lou), eight years ago when that woman came out ( Andrea Constand) 
 
 ' And a few years before that, I was at a celebrity event with Lou. We were all at tables. He (Cosby) was at another table and Lou said he was going over there to talk and say hi.' 
 
 She told him she wasn't going over to say hello to that man. 
 
 When I was reminded when we went to that event, I didn't even tell Lou about it then. And the last couple days, I'm hearing it on every radio station and TV and I tell my husband that I have to come forward. 
 
 Cosby finally gave some response to these recent allegations in an interview with the AP on November 6, saying he had 'no response' and 'no comment' 
 
 'To be set up like this really really made me angry! It was just awful. I was listening to what he did to those other women and I feel blessed. 
 
 'So blessed that he didn't do to me what he did to them. But some of those girls wanted something from him. 
 
 'I never wanted anything from him. I was smart to get away. That was smart.' 
 
 Lou told Carla he didn't want her to come forward. 'But I do what I want to do,' she told MailOnline 
 
 Lou told Carla he didn't want her to come forward. 
 
 'But I do what I want to do. He (Lou) went to Reno to work and I'm here. Lou said, "I don't think you should do it. It's not good. It's you know, not safe" 
 
 I said, 'I don't give a f***, This was inside of me my whole life and I didn't like it. And every time I'd hear his name, I'd cringe. 
 
 'I knew he was a creep and nobody else knew he was a creep, so I kept it to myself. It's that simple. 
 
 THE WOMEN WHO SAY THEY WERE DRUGGED AND RAPED BY COSBY Andrea Constand - A Temple University employee, she claimed in 2006 that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his Philadelphia-area mansion two years earlier. Cosby eventually settled this suit out of court as the prosecution said they had 13 Jane Does who would testify Cosby did the same to them in the past. Barbara Bowman - Bowman told MailOnline that Cosby raped and drugged her back in 1985 when she was a 17-year-old aspiring actress. Bowman was one of the 13 Jane Does in the 2006 trial against Cosby. Joan Tarshis - Tarshis claimed that she was just 19-years-old when Cosby drugged and raped her twice in Hollywood back in 1969 while she was working as a writer for him. Janice Dickinson - The supermodel said in an interview that Cosby asked her to come to Lake Tahoe and talk about a television role in 1982, but ended up drugging and raping her. Tamara Green - Green, who first came forward in 2005 told MailOnline that she was an aspiring actress in the 1970s when Cosby gave her pills and pretended to care for her while she had the flu, but instead sexually assaulted her. Therese Serignese - Also one of the 13 Jane Does, she says she was 19 when Cosby drugged and raped her in Las Vegas after one of his shows. 
 
 'So who cares? Why not why tell the truth. I didn't tell even him (Lou), eight years ago when that woman came out (Andrea Constand).' 
 
 'And I didn't think my husband needed to know. He's a jealous Italian and he adores me and he always has, and he's not going to stop now. 
 
 'I have no reason to do this except my own reason. Bill said he won't talk about it. 
 
 'I want to address every woman in America to come forward so this sort of thing doesn't happen again. Any woman who was hurt by this man needs to stand up and speak out against the insanity with the lawyers and the abuse. No more. No more. 
 
 ''And I was a girl. Every since I was a young girl, starting at the age of five, it was okay. Men were trying to touch me or molest me. 
 
 'I didn't expect all of this. I told my husband, "All I want to do is tell somebody," and he said "Why?' and I said "I want every one who has been touched by this man to come forward." 
 
 'I'm coming forward. I want to be one of those women. One more nail in the coffin.' 
 
 'One more nail so he never does this again to anybody! And I'm going forward. I have nothing to gain by it. 
 
 'And guess what? I have nothing to lose from it either, so why not tell the truth? 
 
 In an interview on the John and Ken Show, Carla says Cosby lunged at her and forcefully kissed her at a party when she was just a teenager - and his wife was home. 
 
 Speaking with MailOnline after the interview, she said, 'I feel so bad for these women. I was the lucky one.' 
 
 He responds: This as Cosby has recently said he has 'no comment' about recent rape allegations 
 
 'I feel so bad for these women. I was the lucky one.' 
 
 She added, 'I mean 'lucky' in that he didn't harm me. It harmed me emotionally all my life but he didn't physically harm me.' 
 
 Meanwhile, Cosby finally gave some response to these recent allegations in an interview with the AP on November 6, saying he had 'no response' and 'no comment.' 
 
 With his wife Camille by his side, he then asked that that section of the interview not be shown. 
 
 Prior to Serignese's claims, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis and supermodel Janice Dickinson all came forward in the past few weeks to publicly say they were drugged and raped by Cosby. 
 
 Cosby has never been convicted on any of these charges. 
 
 These allegations are already having a major impact on his work however, with Netflix postponing the airing of his new comedy special, Bill Cosby 77, which was due to air the day after Thanksgiving, and NBC pulling the plug on a comedy project they were developing with the Cosby Show star. 
 
 Cosby has also had scheduled appearances on talk shows including The Queen Latifah Show and Late Night With David Letterman cancelled in the wake of these allegations. ||||| While companies rush to cut ties with Bill Cosby in the wake of mounting rape allegations, the truth is they shouldn't have made such partnerships to begin with. Thirteen women accused Cosby of sexual assault nearly 10 years ago, when the first official charge against him was made in 2005. But it wasn't until a video of (male) comedian Hannibal Buress calling Cosby a rapist during an October stand-up set went viral that people began to care. Since then, even more women have come forward with horrific allegations about Cosby dating back decades. 
 
 
 
 Bill Cosby rape allegations: All the latest news 
 
 
 
 There are many who are expressing shock that the imagined family man was capable of sexual assault, despite the fact that evidence and stories of Cosby's megalomania, intimidation and control tactics have been public knowledge since the height of his fame during The Cosby Show. 
 
 
 
 Here is a timeline of Cosby's bad behavior and abuse charges. 
 
 
 
 1965: Kristina Ruehli, then a secretary at Artists Agency Corp., says Cosby drugged her and tried to force her to perform oral sex at a party in his home. "I pushed myself away and ran to the bathroom and threw up. I was feeling really ill," she says. "I left the bathroom and he wasn't there. I don't know where he went. But I left right away." 
 
 
 
 1967: Carla Green, a Playboy Bunny working at The Playboy Club in Los Angeles, goes on a date with a friend of Cosby's who takes her to the comedian's house. Towards the end of the evening, when she and Cosby are alone playing pool, she says he attacks her. He "grabbed me in such a powerful way. Grabbing me," she says. "He was much bigger than me. Much bigger and he pulled me so hard and so rough. ... And then kissed me so hard, right in the mouth." She is able to push Cosby away and leaves immediately. 
 
 
 
 1969: Joan Tarshis, a 19-year-old aspiring comedy writer, says Cosby fixes her a "redeye," a Bloody Mary topped with beer, in his bungalow while they work on material for The Bill Cosby Show. "The next thing I remember was coming to on his couch while being undressed. Through the haze I thought I was being clever when I told him I had an infection and he would catch it and his wife would know he had sex with someone. But he just found another orifice to use," she says. Tarshis later attends a Cosby stand-up set and has another redeye. "I remember feeling very, very stoned and asking his chauffeur to take me back to the car," she says. "The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the [hotel], naked. I remember thinking 'You old sh--, I guess you got me this time, but it's the last time you'll ever see me.'" 
 
 
 
 Early 1970s: Linda Joy Traitz, a 19-year-old waitress at Café Figaro, a restaurant Cosby partially owns, accepts a ride home from the comedian. Instead of taking her home, however, "he drove out to the beach and opened a briefcase filled with assorted drugs and kept offering me pills 'to relax,' which I declined," she says. "He began to get sexually aggressive and wouldn't take 'No' for an answer. I freaked out and demanded to be taken home." 
 
 
 
 1970: Tamara Lucier, a model, alleges that she met Cosby for lunch in Los Angeles. She was suffering from the flu, and Cosby gives her two capsules of what he said was the cold medicine Contact. The medicine makes Lucier "stoned," and Cosby offers her to drive her home. Once at her home, Cosby allegedly begins to grope and kiss her as he takes her clothes off. Lucier says she began throwing things and threatened to Cosby that things were "going to go very badly" if he tried to rape her. She says Cosby left soon after, but also left two $100 bills on Lucier's nightstand. 
 
 
 
 1971: Cosby allegedly forces Louisa Mortiz, an actress, to perform oral sex on him in a Tonight Show greenroom. "He took his hands and put them on the back of my head and forced his penis in my mouth, saying, 'Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways,'" she says. 
 
 
 
 1976: Cosby is at a party at the Playboy Mansion when Tommy Smothers congratulates the comedian on his latest TV show, not knowing it had been canceled a day prior. "He just looked at me [as if to say] 'F--- you,' and I said, 'Well, f--- you,' ... and walked away," Smothers recalls. Cosby then "sucker-punched" Smothers and stood over him for "a minute or two ... screaming at me, 'C'mon, I'll kick your ass,' stuff like that," he says. 
 
 
 
 1982: Janice Dickinson, then an up-and-coming actress and singer, meets with Cosby in Lake Tahoe to discuss a possible job offer. After having dinner together, she says he gives her a glass of red wine and a pill to help ease menstrual cramps. "Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe dropping his robe and getting on top of me," she says. "And I remember a lot of pain." 
 
 
 
 1984: Beth Ferrier, a model, begins a six-month-long affair with Cosby. He ends it abruptly, but then invites her to a club in Denver, where she lives, to see him perform. Ferrier says Cosby gave her what he called her "favorite coffee, something I made, to relax you," and she begins to feel woozy. Several hours later, she says she woke up unaware of what had happened. "I was in the back of my car all alone," she claims. "My clothes were a mess. My bra was undone. My top was untucked." Ferrier says she later confronted Cosby at his hotel and he told she had had too much to drink. 
 
 
 
 1984: TV Guide Magazine publishes a profile of Cosby, in which he is described as "combative, defensive, challenging, threatening and hostile. The most innocuous line of questioning could set him off." The article also details his propensity for holding grudges against anyone who digs too much into his personal life. "For example, TV Guide published an article 15 years ago that told how many cars he owned," the writer says. "He mentioned it to me at least twice, in anger." 
 
 
 
 1986: Barbara Bowman, Cosby's then-protégé, alleges he forced her to masturbate him in a Reno, Nev., hotel room. In a later incident at his Manhattan townhouse, she says she woke up nauseous in a men's T-shirt after a glass of red wine. After a similar incident in Atlantic City, she says Cosby summons her to his room, where he "threw me on the bed and braced his arm under my neck so I couldn't move my head, and he started trying to take his clothes off. I remember all the clinking of his belt buckle. And he was trying to take my pants down, and I was trying to keep them on." After she resists his advances, he cuts off contact and has an escort take her to the airport for a flight home. She later sees a lawyer who "wouldn't take it seriously," according to a friend who went with her to the appointment. 
 
 
 
 1987: When Lisa Bonet takes a role in Angel Heart while appearing on The Cosby Show, Cosby tells her: "Lisa, this is called The Cosby Show, and I know how this business works. I know that you kids can be erased just like that. I've been in this business long enough to know that. And there's no reason why you shouldn't be working. And get out of my dressing room." 
 
 
 
 1989: Cosby's daughter Erinn, who was a coke addict, accuses Mike Tyson of sexual assault. Cosby forces her to seek treatment and says she wouldn't be allowed into the family until she fixed her life. She remains estranged from her family for nearly a decade until she attends her brother Ennis' funeral. 
 
 
 
 May 1989: While addressing graduates at Notre Dame, Cosby singles out and publicly criticizes student Dean Brown, a star football player, for his 2.5 grade point average. "That's nothing," Cosby says. Brown cries and Cosby brings him on stage, where Brown attempts to explain how he struggled balancing schoolwork and football. Brown, who died in 2012 of a blood clot, felt like a failure for years afterward because of Cosby's comments, according to Jerry Barca, who wrote a book about Notre Dame's unbeaten 1988 season. 
 
 
 
 February 1992: Cosby tells an Associated Press reporter during an interview: "Tell me what you want to ask and we'll see how it goes. If it doesn't go well, I'll give you a piece of fruit. I'll give you an apple or pear and you can be on your way." He then allows the interview to continue, but less than a week after the article is published, Cosby sends the reporter a package that contains a sheet of paper that says, "Here's your apple," signed by Cosby, and a shriveled apple. 
 
 
 
 April 30, 1992: Cosby appears on NBC to try to end the Rodney King Riots by asking everyone to watch the Cosby Show series finale instead that night. 
 
 1992: After Angela Leslie, an aspiring model and actress, sends Cosby a photograph and letter, she meets him in Las Vegas. She says she is summoned to his room, where Cosby makes her a stiff drink and tells her to act drunk. "I tasted it and put it down. Then he asked me to go into the bathroom and wet my hair. . . . I walked back out, and he had removed his clothing and gotten into bed," she says. Then, she says, he began rubbing against her before pouring lotion into her palm and pulling her hand under the blankets. "With his hand on top of mine, he had me massage his penis," she says. "He masturbated with my hand." 
 
 1993: After Malcolm-Jamal Warner's sitcom Here and Now, which Cosby produced, fails, Cosby blames the writers, the bad timeslot, the network and, basically, the lack of power and control he had. To remedy this, Cosby repeatedly attempts to buy NBC. 
 
 Mid-1990s: Cosby visits the Philadelphia projects he lived in as a kid and confronts an apparent drug addict living there about why he doesn't have a job. When the 21-year-old doesn't have answers, Cosby tells him that there is no excuse for his situation. 
 
 
 
 January 2004: Andrea Constand, director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, visits Cosby, whom she had met in 2002, at his Pennsylvania home to discuss career advice. After allegedly giving her herbal pills to help her with her anxiety, Constand says Cosby "touched her breasts and vagina area, rubbed his penis against her hand, and digitally penetrated" her. 
 
 
 
 March 2004: Cosby gives a speech at the Year of Child production at a Philadelphia church, during which he attacks the modern parenting styles to an audience of young children and their parents. A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist runs an article stating he chose the wrong place and time for such a lecture, and an angry Cosby calls the author a few days later demanding that she issue a retraction in print because she was wrong and the audience did need to hear his message. She refuses, and Cosby eventually writes a letter to the Inquirer, which is printed, and has his lawyers threaten the paper with legal action. 
 
 
 
 May 2004: While receiving a philanthropy award in Washington, D.C., Cosby says the poor are "not holding up their end of the deal" and that it is the parents' fault when their children end up in prison. He goes on to attack black youths for their style choices and parents for naming their children "Shaniqua, Taliqua and Muhammand and all that crap." 
 
 
 
 Jan. 13, 2005: Constand, now living near Toronto, accuses Cosby of "inappropriate touching" to Canadian authorities. Cosby's lawyer dismisses her claim as "utterly preposterous" and "plainly bizarre." 
 
 
 
 Feb. 10, 2005: After hearing Constand's claims, Lucier, now named Tamara Green, goes on the Today show and becomes the second woman to publicly accuse Cosby of sexual abuse. After her interview with Matt Lauer, Cosby's lawyer calls Green's allegations "absolutely false. Mr. Cosby does not know the name Tamara Green or Tamara Lucier, and the incident she describes did not happen." 
 
 
 
 March 8, 2005: A month after the Montgomery County, Pa., district attorney announces he will not press charges against Cosby based on Constand's claims because of lack of evidence, she files a civil suit against Cosby, with charges of assault and battery. She asks for at least $150,000 in damages. Thirteen other women who claim they had similar experiences with Cosby, one being Green, are mentioned in the suit, but are kept anonymous. 
 
 
 
 April 1, 2006: Cosby speaks at a march to rally support from New Orleans residents who have been disenfranchised and relocated after Hurricane Katrina. The comedian, however, focuses on the problems facing these citizens before Katrina hit — issues with teenage pregnancy, high murder rates, etc., that, in Cosby's mind, aren't symptoms of institutionalized racism, but are caused by these Katrina victims. 
 
 That same month, Cosby tells Michael Eric Dyson that he won't appear on his radio show because Cosby is convinced Dyson was wasn't telling his own life story properly by focusing on institutional issues rather than personal responsibility and being self-made. "Until you gain clarity, I will not come on your show," Cosby repeatedly says. 
 
 
 
 June 2005: One of the anonymous witnesses, Ferrier, goes public. 
 
 
 
 June 9, 2006: Another witness, Bowman, goes public in an interview with Philadelphia magazine. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 8, 2006: Cosby settles with Constand and none of the 13 other women testify. 
 
 
 
 Dec. 18, 2006: People publishes the claims of Constand, Green, Ferrier and Bowman. The magazine also reports that three of the anonymous witnesses from Constand's suit accepted cash from Cosby for years, and two others began consensual sexual relationships with Cosby. 
 
 
 
 Feb. 7, 2014: Newsweek interviews Green and Bowman again about the alleged assaults, the former of which recalls running into Cosby in Las Vegas and screaming at him words like "liar" and "rapist." Cosby's lawyer doesn't address Bowman's claims, but calls Green's claim "a 10-year-old, discredited accusation that proved to be nothing at the time, and is still nothing." 
 
 
 
 Oct. 16, 2014: Hannibal Buress reignites the controversy surrounding the rape allegations during a stand-up set in Philadelphia. "Bill Cosby has the f---ing smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. Pull your pants up, black people. 'I was on TV in the '80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.' Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, [that] brings you down a couple notches," Buress says. "I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. ... I've done this bit on stage, and people don't believe. People think I'm making it up. ...That sh-- is upsetting. If you didn't know about it, trust me. You leave here and Google 'Bill Cosby rape.' It's not funny. That sh-- has more results than 'Hannibal Buress.'" 
 
 
 
 Nov. 6, 2014: An Associated Press reporter asks Cosby to comment on the rape allegations. Cosby responds, but as soon as the interview wraps, he begins bullying the reporter to promise the footage won't be shown if he has any "integrity." The reporter makes no such promise and footage of the exchange is released two weeks later in the wake of new allegations. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 13, 2014: Bowman writes an op-ed in the Washington Post titled, "Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?" She notes that "only after a man" called Cosby out did the public begin to take the allegations seriously. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 15, 2014: When asked about the claims on NPR's "Weekend Edition," Cosby stays completely silent and merely shakes his head. His lawyer later releases a statement saying the comedian "won't dignify these allegations with any response." 
 
 
 
 Nov. 16, 2014: Tarshis comes forward in an essay for Hollywood Elsewhere. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 17, 2014: Traitz posts a lengthy Facebook post detailing her encounter with Cosby. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 18, 2014: Dickinson publicly accuses Cosby of raping her in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. She says she tried to include the assault in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, but Cosby's legal team pressured her and publisher Harper Collins to remove it from the book. "Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issue with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn't have counsel and I was afraid," she says. 
 
 Late that night, Netflix indefinitely postpones Cosby's stand-up special Bill Cosby 77 that had been scheduled for Thanksgiving week. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 19, 2014: TV Land pulls all Cosby Show reruns and NBC drops the sitcom it had been developing with him. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 20, 2014: Three more women come forward with allegations Cosby sexually assaulted them. Moritz and Green, now Carla Ferrigno, each come forward, the latter despite alleged pleas from her actor husband not to. One of the anonymous witnesses from Cortstand's 2005 court case also comes forward as Theresa Serignese. Cosby's lawyer responds to the newest accusations. "We've reached a point of absurdity. The stories are getting more ridiculous," he says. "Mortiz is a lawyer who was disciplined by the California State Bar and ordered not to practice." We pulled the documents -- she can't practice because she didn't report certain quarterly reports ... the nature of the reports is unclear from the documents." 
 
 Meanwhile, Renita Chaney Hill tells Pittsburgh's KDKA that when she was an aspiring 15-year-old actress and model, she began a four-year, on-again, off-again relationship with Cosby in which she believes he gave her drugged drinks Although the majority of the time she woke up in her bed unable to recall how she got there, she does remember him kissing and touching her as she passed out once. On social media, SVU actress Michelle Hurd reportedly posts to Facebook about her time as a stand-in on The Cosby Show, when the star would allegedly touch her inappropriately during "acting exercises." 
 
 Amidst all of these accusations, the producers of The Cosby Show release the following statement: "The Bill we know was a brilliant and wonderful collaborator on a show that changed the landscape of television. These recent news reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension." 
 
 
 
 That night, Cosby performs a sold-out stand-up show in the Bahamas that he dedicates to his wife, Camille. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 21, 2014: Leslie comes forward in an interview with the New York Daily News, as does Ruehli in Philadelphia magazine. 
 
 
 
 Before his Florida stand-up show that night, Cosby tells Florida Today that he won't address the allegations. "I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos. People should fact check. People shouldn't have to go through that and shouldn't answer to innuendos." 
 
 Nov. 22, 2014: In a Washington Post report on Cosby, former Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino says that in 1970, the comedian had sexually assaulted her after drugging her and her roommate. 
 
 Nov. 23, 2014: Former NBC employee Frank Scotti tells the New York Daily News that during The Cosby Show era, he covered up for the comedian: standing guard outside the comedian’s dressing room while he brought young models in, paying off women in exchange for their silence, and even securing a second apartment for Cosby's exploits. 
 
 Nov. 24, 2014: Moritz tells TMZ of her plans to file a class action lawsuit against Bill Cosby and hopes at least nine other accusers will join her to present a united front. Meanwhile, yet another alleged victim speaks up. Ex-model Jewell Allison tells the NY Daily News about her abuse by Cosby in the 1980s. 
 
 CBS News also reports that yet another two of Cosby's concert dates in Connecticut and Washington have been postponed. 
 
 Dec. 1, 2014: Cosby stepped down from the board of trustees of Temple University, of which he had been a member for 32 years. The university had been under pressure, even from some of its own alums, to distance itself from the embattled comedian. 
 
 Dec. 2, 2014: In a CNN interview, Dickinson went into further detail about her alleged rape by Cosby in Nevada. With all the accusations levied against the comedian, Dickinson challenged him to "come out and at least acknowledge that he is a pig, that he is a monster and that he raped me." 
 
 Dec. 3, 2014: Judy Huth filed a civil lawsuit against Cosby, alleging that he had sexually molested her back in 1974 when she was only 15. 
 
 Dec. 4, 2014: According to People, Beth Ferrier and two other accusers, represented by famed civil-rights attorney Gloria Allred, filed sexual assault complaints against Cosby. 
 
 Dec. 5, 2014: Cosby countersued Huth and claimed that she attempted to extort money from Cosby and sell her story before filing suit. 
 
 Dec. 11, 2014: In a column for Vanity Fair, former supermodel Beverly Johnson says Cosby attempted to assault her after she auditioned to be an extra on <i>The Cosby Show</i> in the 1980s.
– Details of alleged sexual assaults by Bill Cosby just keep on coming. Today five women describe his purported attacks in blood-curdling detail to the Washington Post, with some saying they were drugged before the encounter and others claiming they screamed, tried fighting him off, or said they would fight him to the death (in that case, he allegedly threw two hundred-dollar bills at model Tamara Green and walked out). Victoria Valentino—an ex-Playboy Playmate speaking up for the first time—says he drugged her and a friend with red pills in 1970. Then he "opened his fly and grabbed my head and pushed my head down. And then he turned me over. It was like a waking nightmare." But she never pressed charges: "What kind of credibility did I have?" Denials by Cosby lawyers pepper the article, as do quotes from a friend, a writer, and a district attorney who say they heard the women's accusations years ago. The Post also looks at Cosby's marriage to Camille Cosby, saying "it’s unclear how much Camille knew about her husband’s activities" since six of the alleged sexual assaults occurred at his house. She was reportedly aware of his "selfish" behavior in Los Angeles, which contrasted with his upstanding life on the East Coast as a man studying for a PhD and sitting on a board at Temple University. Yet even there, a Temple employee accuses him of drugging her with blue pills and sexually assaulting her. In other Cosby news: Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti tells the Daily News that during the Cosby Show's heyday, he guarded Cosby's dressing-room door while the comedy star hosted young models. Scotti says he then paid off the women with money orders using cash provided by Cosby (he produces the money orders). "He had everybody fooled," says Scotti. "Nobody suspected." When Cosby appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman, he asked female staffers to do an odd thing: watch him eat curry, Gawker reports. A source says staffers hated it but still obliged: "No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating and make us watch and want us to watch," the source tells the Daily News. Click to read about accusations from Carla Ferrigno, Lou Ferrigno's wife.