Actor Bill Cosby, the onetime “America’s Dad” who fell from grace over allegations he drugged several women before sexually assaulting them, may be facing new legal trouble, a published report suggests.
The 88-year-old comedian said in a deposition that he had received a recreational prescription for quaaludes that he hoped to give women before having sex with them, TMZ reports.
Cosby reportedly said under oath that he got the prescription, which he refilled seven times, from a gynecologist friend while playing poker more than a half-century ago — specifically, before 1972.
The information is expected to figure into a lawsuit filed by Donna Motsinger, who claims Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1972 while she was a waitress at a California restaurant.
TMZ says the gynecologist who prescribed the quaaludes, Dr. Leroy Amar, had his license revoked by California regulators in 1979.
A legal representative for Cosby said the TMZ report was not true.
Andrew Wyatt, who served as a crisis manager for Cosby, joined “Jesse Weber Live” on Wednesday to defend his former client. He said he flat-out asked the star if all the allegations against him were true and Cosby firmly denied them.
“He said, ‘Andrew, I wouldn’t take you through the valley of shame,’” Wyatt said.
Cosby did mention the use of quaaludes during earlier eras, he added.
“He said, ‘Yes, I had quaaludes. Quaaludes was called ‘disco biscuits,’ and all of the entertainers had them,’” Wyatt recalled.
A Pennsylvania jury in 2018 convicted Cosby of aggravated indecent assault after prosecutors accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia residence in 2004. Cosby had been a mentor to the Temple University employee.
The state’s high court overturned the conviction in 2021 over a due-process violation, and the actor was released from prison.
Source: News Nation
