LOS ANGELES (KNX) – A former Playboy model filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby for sexually assaulting her in 1969, according to the Washington Post.
The lawsuit was filed under a new California law that temporarily lifts the statute of limitation on civil sexual assault cases. Under the law, those who claim they were sexually assaulted are allowed to seek damages even if it happened outside the statute of limitations.
Victoria Valentino said in 1969, Cosby consoled her while she cried over the recent death of her son. Later on, the two went out to dinner with a friend of hers and he gave them both a pill.
After dinner, she recalled to KNX News that they went back to a house in the Hollywood Hills where she collapsed.
“…and I reached out and grabbed onto him to keep from falling and the next thing I knew I was on my knees next to the love seat and he was sitting down and zipping his fly,” she said.
She told KNX News she filed the lawsuit after being approached by former Senator Joe Dunn.
“I was informed that [AB 2777] was signed into law and I had a one-year window and it was just simply time,” she said. “It was time for justice for me.”
Cosby’s representative, Andrew Wyatt, said in a statement to TMZ, "Media needs to vet Victoria Valentino cautiously and carefully -- because she has changed her alleged accounts of sexual abuse at the hands of Mr. Cosby over 10 to 15 times."
Cosby has been accused by 60 women of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. In September 2018, he was sentenced three to 10 years for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004. He was released from prison in 2021 after his conviction was overturned.
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