Cosby accuser asks for entire deposition to be made public
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian woman at the center of sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby accused him on Wednesday of violating a confidentiality agreement in their 2005 lawsuit, and asked a court to make public his entire testimony.
Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, filed court papers in Pennsylvania district court, also accusing Cosby and his advisers of manipulating the media through interviews and statements about the slew of sex assault allegations against him.
The lawsuit was filed two days after a Pennsylvania judge unsealed testimony in Constand's 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby, in which the actor said he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.
The case was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum and both Cosby and Constand signed confidentiality agreements. In the past year some 40 other women have come forward accusing the star of TV comedy series "The Cosby Show" of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents dating back decades.
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cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)of violating a confidentiality agreement they had because wasnt it the AP that got the courts to unseal the records or is that one of the other cases that had its records unsealed?
pnwmom
(109,020 posts)Not about the release of the transcript that he couldn't control.
cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)you would think he would be allowed to respond to that information being revealed if he wasnt the one that sought the release of the information. (like I said, I am really sleepy but cannot get to sleep just yet with this damn shoulder hurting so my apologies if I am not making sense atm)
pnwmom
(109,020 posts)ordered released.
And if he did, then she should have the chance to respond. Why should she be bound by the confidentiality agreement if he isn't?
cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)After all it was the AP got the court to reveal this, not Cosby.