Bill Cosby has been hit with another lawsuit, this time from former Playboy bunny Victoria Valentino. Valentino alleges that Cosby gave her and a friend drugs in 1969, resulting in a nonconsensual sexual experience. A representative of Cosby advised the media to "vet Victoria Valentino cautiously and carefully," citing her previous allegations against the actor.
According to legal documents, Valentino claims to have met Cosby at a restaurant in 1969. She says he offered to treat her and a friend to spa treatments and later dinner. She also claims that after giving them pills that made her feel dizzy and sick, Cosby offered to drive them home. According to the documents, Valentino says that he instead drove them to his office, where the alleged sexual assault occurred. She described seeing Cosby staring at her friend with "predatory intensity." Valentino then described the alleged assault, claiming that she was unable to give consent due to the drugs in her system at the time.
Representative Calls The Suit "Bigger Than Bill Cosby"
A representative of Cosby, Andrew Wyatt, shared a statement on the lawsuit with TMZ. The statement reads, "Media needs to vet Victoria Valentino cautiously and carefully," claiming, "she has changed her alleged accounts of sexual abuse at the hands of Mr. Cosby over 10 to 15 times." It goes on to call the lawsuit an attack against successful black men in America.
"It's unfortunate that the statute of limitations were put in The Constitution to protect victims and those who are accused -- and it seems that our political figures are caving to being click baiters and accumulating likes as opposed to vetting these allegations made by alleged accusers and moving swiftly to create these look back windows -- which are only being created because they incorporate Bill Cosby's name," the statement reads. "This is bigger than Bill Cosby. This is a target against every black successful man in America like Lebron James, Will Smith and President Obama."