Two More Women Come Forward With Accusations Against Cosby
Two former models who met Bill Cosby decades ago said at a Los Angeles press conference Thursday that the comedian lured them to his hotel room and then drugged them in separate incidents. One of the women also said Cosby raped her.
Both women said they believed they could trust Cosby, who they met through their modeling agencies, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In 1969, Linda Brown, then 21, met Cosby for dinner after his show in Toronto, she said. Brown said he then persuaded her to come to his hotel room, where he gave her a soda. She said she drank it and then blacked out, later waking up naked in bed next to Cosby, who she said then raped her, USA Today reported.
“I couldn’t move or speak. I felt paralyzed; he flipped me over and sexually assaulted me. I felt like a rag doll and like a real-life blow-up doll for him,’’ she said, according to Reuters.
“He has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality, and if you trust him then he has fooled you as well,’’ she said of Cosby, via USA Today.
Lisa-Lotte Lublin said she met Cosby at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989, when she was 23. According to Lublin, he asked her to perform some improv, so he could judge her acting skills and gave her two drinks to help her relax, which Lublin said made her feel dizzy.
She said Cosby hugged her and touched her hair before she passed out, USA Today reports. She later woke up at home, but did not remember how she got there, she said.
Thursday’s press conference was held at the office of Gloria Allred, who represents several of the dozens of women who have accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them, Reuters reported.
“Mr. Cosby thinks that this will soon be over and that no more women will come forward. He is very wrong,’’ Allred said.
Cosby has denied all of the allegations against him.
Lublin also said she would work to pressure Nevada lawmakers to eliminate the statute of limitations for sexual assault, according to USA Today.
Brown and Lublin’s accusations come just a few days after former model and actress Helen Gumpel said Cosby made lewd advances toward her on the set of “The Cosby Show,’’ USA Today reported.
Gumpel discussed the accusations at a Boston hotel on Sunday. Also on Sunday, The Wilbur Theatre in Boston announced that Cosby’s shows there had been canceled because of the weather.
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