Bill Cosby Under Full-Scale Investigation (Playboy Mansion search warrant)
Source: The London Daily Mail
Several more women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by comedy legend Bill Cosby have come forward sparking a definitive open investigation by Los Angeles Police Department, a lawyer for one of the victims has told Daily Mail. The new victims claim to have been subjected to sex attacks by Cosby but have asked to remain anonymous. Significantly, in another blow for the star, it is believed a number of the latest raft of allegations fall within the statute of limitations meaning he can be prosecuted if enough evidence is found.
The complaint will be a huge blow to Cosby who already faces more than 25 historic accusations of sexual assault and rape. But news that several other victims may also fall in to this same category will further rock Cosby and his legal team. Florida attorney Mr Kuvin told MailOnline: I have sat down with my client and have a full understanding of the issues involved and what has occurred.
I have had lengthy communications with the Los Angeles Police Department and there is now a definitive open investigation which is ongoing for, its my understanding, other unnamed victims who have yet to be revealed publicly. The police will be doing additional investigative work which will include things like issuing search warrants. They want to get all their information first before sitting down and having an interview. This is scheduled to happen early in the new year.
This comes after it emerged in December that the LAPD plans to search Hugh Hefner's famous Playboy mansion as part of their investigation. Police are hoping Hugh Hefner, long a dear friend of the embattled 77-year-old comic, and his people will be of some help as they seek to gather evidence in several cases which are linked to the Playboy mansion.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2879749/Police-Bill-Cosby-definitive-open-investigation-series-women-claim-abused-statute-limitations.html
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)You'd be able to see the resulting glow from outer space.
rocktivity
(44,575 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 20, 2018, 09:49 AM - Edit history (7)
Hannibal Buress: ...Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. "Pull your pants up, black people...I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom." Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches...I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns...People think I'm making it up...Trust me -- you leave here and google 'Bill Cosby rape'...That shit has more results than 'Hannibal Buress.'
If only he'd said something more like "horn dog" or "trifling" or "booty caller" or "chick banger" or "skirt chaser" or just plain "dirty old man."
Hannibal Burress Google Search: 532,000 results
Bill Cosby Rape: 51,200,000 results
Bill Cosby Horn Dog: 3,530,000 results
Bill Cosby Trifling: 68,100 results
Bill Cosby booty call: 1,230,000 results
Bill Cosby chick banger: 1,510,000 results
Bill Cosby skirt chaser: 3,140,000
Bill Cosby dirty old man: 2,420,000 results
See? With only one exception, the joke would have worked just as well, and maybe someone wouldn't have thought it was "crazy" enough to upload.
Burress actually respects Cosby's work, praising the star in a 2013 GQ interview. "It's stuff that holds up...All of it is evergreen. He talks about asking somebody, 'Why do you do cocaine?' 'Because it intensifies your personality.' Cosby says, 'What if you're an a**hole?' I think it's the only time he curses during the whole special...If I had to do an hour clean now, I don't know how I'd pull it off."
The bottom line is that jokes about rape and rapists still aren't funny. And though Buress wisely ended the joke on a self-depreciating note, he'd better hope that Cosby doesn't become "interested" in suing him. Are TWO comedic careers on their way to hell on a road paved with "good intentions?"
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pnwmom
(108,975 posts)in any court case.
I'm glad that Burress didn't use another word. Why should he have sugar-coated it?
47of74
(18,470 posts)They could point at him and say they weren't being racist because he was talking down to African-Americans. In their minds since an African-American was talking down to his fellow African-Americans that made it OK for them to do it too.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)rumors about Cosby being a rapist have been around for literally decades, and Burress was merely stating that. This isn't a case of the wrong word to use, such as dirty old man instead of rapist, which is what I think you're suggesting?
Nitram
(22,791 posts)Comedy and satire are protected under the 1st Amendment. But it wasn't a "stray remark". It is no coincidence that only a comic had the courage to publicly bring up a topic that on one else would touch.
rocktivity
(44,575 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 4, 2015, 04:45 PM - Edit history (2)
and dirty old men lack character, rapists are CRIMINALS -- and Cosby hasn't been convicted of anything as of yet.
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TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)rocktivity
(44,575 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 19, 2014, 04:30 PM - Edit history (1)
But most people are. So in the interest of fairness, I followed Buress' instructions to the letter.
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Mr.Bill
(24,280 posts)subject to a police search? You couldn't possibly begin to clean that place up. There's probably enough cocaine residue in that place to kill a polar bear.
rocktivity
(44,575 posts)There's nothing worse than unexpected guests finding your house untidy -- especially with the holidays right around the corner...
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Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Would be like trying to find a contact lens in the Pacific Ocean.
cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)pnwmom
(108,975 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)probably isnt proof so thats why I am wondering if they are investigating one they can prosecute him for or are they just using it as a fishing expedition to assist the women in a potential civil lawsuit?
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)That made me wonder why the only reports we are hearing are many years old.
Maybe he did get the message and stopped. But some of the reports I read said that he was also really into hookers. Don't know if that's true as I never met the man. But it would kind of make sense that going to hookers was safer for him.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Sounds like Cos is going to live the remainder of his life in quite a bit of discomfort. Not much to show to his victims, but...
Hekate
(90,642 posts)I remembered an article from several years ago about a member of the cast, one of the girls, who refused to come to a reunion of the Huxtable family. That was Lisa Bonet, described as "estranged" for the last 20 years.
I wonder what she would say about that now?
rocktivity
(44,575 posts)UPDATE: A rep for Lisa Bonet has confirmed that the account was fake. The account has since been suspended.
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Hekate
(90,642 posts)....of Lisa's "estrangement" rose to the surface of my mind, and I couldn't shake it.
In a family with a molesting father, sometimes he goes after all his girls, but even more often there's just the one, and everyone else wonders what the hell is wrong with her because everyone else seems so happy and well adjusted.
And that was Lisa. Everyone else in the Huxtable "family" was okay, but she refused to come to the reunion. Right.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)It spoiled the "squeaky-clean" image he was trying to maintain for the Cosby Show family.
That doesn't mean he was acting inappropriately toward her. It just shows he's a self-righteous douche canoe, which we all knew he was anyway.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)It was a great show. I really loved it. And now I can't look at his face.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)That's all it is.
Angleae
(4,482 posts)The statute of limitations on rape in California is 3-6 years.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)and considering that they are having to use some of the finite police resources (which probably takes away some of the focus on current rape cases) it does make me wonder what the goal of the investigation is if they cannot prosecute him for it?
I mean is it being done to help the women for a potential civil case? If so then I wonder which woman as some of the alleged cases took place decades ago and the statute of limitations even for a civil case to be brought has expired.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)I imagine there will be no shortage of volunteers for the search.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Bandwagon jumpers on this story. Look at all the people that just made shit up about Michael Brown shooting, and now consider this is a celeb, and they don't really have to prove anything, they just have to say it loudly.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)"Significantly, in another blow for the star"
"The complaint will be a huge blow to Cosby"
Points for style.
former9thward
(31,974 posts)So I don't know what the point is. As far as looking for evidence -- the Playboy Mansion? Really? Years later. I suspect you will find a lot of DNA in that place. Which would mean nothing.