It’s only been a few weeks since comedian Hannibal Burress resurrected Bill Cosby’s sordid history during a standup routine that went viral, but it feels like so much longer. Hannibal’s rant followed shortly after Cosby published his Life & Times biography. Vulture has kept a running timeline of developments related to abuse charges against Cosby. The list keeps growing. Time has a detailed summary of five women who have stepped up to tell their stories since 2000. Most of these ladies talk about being drugged before Cosby did (allegedly) unspeakable things to them. Some of the alleged happenings date back to the late 1960s.

All of these rehashed developments equal bad news for Cosby, who planned to return to television this fall. He was going to play the wholesome family man in a multigenerational family comedy. Again.

I’ve said this already, but Cosby is an old pro at settling these cases out of court. It’s still worth mentioning that he’s never been charged in criminal court. He kept his mouth shut on all of the allegations until last weekend when his attorneys posted (and removed) this message on his website: “Decade-old, discredited allegations against Mr. Cosby have resurfaced. The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. Mr. Cosby doesn’t not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment.” The only reason his lawyers even issued a “no comment” statement is because of a massive Twitter mess last week. Cosby’s camp asked users to submit photo memes on Twitter, and it turned into an ever bigger PR debacle than #AskThicke. Almost all of the Cosby meme submissions mentioned the rape, and CNN collected several of them.

Now Janice Dickinson has shared her sad and infuriating story. She says Cosby raped her in 1982. She tried to tell the story years ago in a memoir, but Cosby’s lawyers shut it down. Janice will not go quietly. She sat down for a video interview with ET. Here are the horrible details:

Janice Dickinson, now 59, recalls first meeting Cosby, now 77, when her agent set up a meeting with him to hire her for a role on The Cosby Show. After they had dinner, she says their next conversation was when he called her out of the blue while she was in rehab for drugs and alcohol. Following her stay in rehab, Dickinson says Cosby reached out to her during a trip to Bali and had her travel to Lake Tahoe, because he was performing there and wanted to offer her the job they had discussed as well as help her with a singing career.

Dickinson says they had dinner in Lake Tahoe, and claims that he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill, which she asked for because she was menstruating and had stomach pains. And that’s when she tells ET that things took a disturbing turn.

“The next morning I woke up, and I wasn’t wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man,” she tells ET. “… 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. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was s*men in between my legs.”

Dickinson also says she tried to write about the assault in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, but claims that when she submitted a draft with her full story to HarperCollins, Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details.

“I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do, and it happened to me, and this is the true story,” she says about coming out with her story now. “I believe all the other women.”

Dickinson says that keeping the alleged sexual assault a secret for 32 years drove her to a life of hurting herself.

“Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issued 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. “I was afraid of the consequences. I was afraid of being labeled a wh*re or a sl*t and trying to sleep my way to the top of a career that never took place.”

But now Dickinson, who says she never confronted Cosby after the alleged incident, doesn’t mince words when it comes to what she would say to him now.

“How dare you,” she says. “Go f*** yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot.”

[From ET Online]

This story is awful. Just terrible. I’m glad Janice is speaking up. These women will probably never see justice, but if they can stop Cosby from making a triumphant return to family television, so be it. Cosby’s armor has been dented. His scheduled appearances on both David Letterman and Queen Latifah’s shows have been cancelled. Netflix postponed his upcoming Thanksgiving special. Good.

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