Bill Cosby found guilty of drugging, sexually assaulting woman


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Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America’s Dad.


Cosby, 80, could end up spending his final years in prison after a jury concluded he sexually violated Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. He claimed the encounter was consensual.


Bill Cosby departs after his sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Bill Cosby departs after his sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pennsylvania.


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Shortly after the verdict, Cosby was released on $US1 million ($1.3 million) bail pending an appeal.


When a prosecutor argued against bail because Cosby was a flight risk and had a plane, the disgraced actor yelled out: “He doesn’t have a plane, you a—hole. I’m sick of it, you a—hole.”


The verdict came after a two-week retrial in which prosecutors put five other women on the stand who testified that Cosby, married for 54 years, drugged and violated them, too.


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