\u0022It\u0027s not about money, it\u0027s about accountability,\u0022 Valentino, 80, told The Washington Post.
“In my opinion, these women are not victims of sexual assault, they are victims of greed,” Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said in an interview after Valentino’s suit was filed.
Cosby’s accusers, many of whom call themselves “sister survivors,” suffered a setback in 2021 when his conviction on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University basketball official was overturned based on a previous non-prosecution agreement related to the same alleged incident. He was released from a Pennsylvania state prison after having served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence.
Valentino’s case goes well beyond accusations against Cosby. As part of the same lawsuit, she is also suing between one and 20 unnamed people, including Cosby’s agents, servants and other employees that she alleges enabled Cosby’s alleged assault. She plans to identify those defendants as she learns their names during the course of discovery related to the lawsuit.
By the time Valentino says she met Cosby at an acting audition in 1969, she had gained a measure of notoriety for her 1963 centerfold appearance in Playboy, then one of the most popular magazines in the United States. Her accusations are similar to those made by dozens of women: Cosby met them while they were aspiring or rising actresses or models, groomed them as potential sexual-assault victims, then allegedly drugged and raped them.
She eventually left Los Angeles and moved to New Orleans, where she is something of a cult figure among in-the-known patrons of a French Quarter bar, the Bombay Club, because a topless painting of her hangs in the men’s bathroom.
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