Embattled US comedian Bill Cosby admitted having drugged
at least one woman with Quaaludes to have sex with her,
court documents show.
Cosby, accused of sexual assault by some 30 women over
decades but who has so far escaped justice, made the
admission in a deposition in 2005, talking about an incident
from 1976.
for Andrea Constand, a former women's basketball director at Philadelphia's Temple University where Cosby studied and was
a member of the board of trustees.
Constand took her rape case to court, but the case was dropped.
Cosby's lawyers had long sought to block publication of the
court transcripts, but they were released Monday on the PACER
public court records website.
In one exchange between Cosby and Troiani, the comic admitted
having obtained seven prescriptions for Quaaludes, a powerful
sedative drug.
"You gave them to other people?" asked the attorney.
"Yes," replied Cosby.
Troiani then asked him: "When you got the Quaaludes, was
it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes
for young women that you wanted to have sex with?"
"Yes," replied Cosby, although a short time later he said he
had misunderstood the question, and was referring only to
one woman.
"I misunderstood. Woman, meaning T....., and not women,"
he said.
Later in the deposition, Cosby said: "I meet Ms (T, whose
name was redacted to preserve her anonymity) in Las Vegas.
She meets me back stage. I give her Quaaludes. We then
have sex."
The entertainer resigned from the board of Temple University
last December, as sexual abuse accusations against him
multiplied.
Cosby is famous for his role in "The Cosby Show," a popular
family sitcom that aired in the 1980s and 1990s.
Culled from Businessinsider
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