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Report: Bill Cosby testified he drugged women for sex

Bill Cosby testified under oath a decade ago that he obtained sedatives to give to women, now released in court papers.

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Bill Cosby testified under oath a decade ago that he obtained sedatives to give to women, according to media reports.

Associated Press went to court in the US to compel the public release of documents detailing an admission that Cosby intended to use the drugs on women he wanted to have sex with.

In 2005 the 77-year-old comedian was testifying under oath in a lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.

Cosby admitted to getting Quaaludes.

“When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Constand’s lawyer, Dolores M. Troiani, asked.

“Yes,” Cosby answered.

“Did you ever give any of these young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?” Troiani asked.

Cosby’s lawyer objected, but Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved.

The entertainer settled the lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2006.

Cosby’s lawyers had objected to the recent release of the material to AP, arguing it would embarrass him but the judge unsealed just a small portion of the deposition.

“The stark contrast between Bill Cosby, the public moralist and Bill Cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct is a matter as to which the AP — and by extension the public — has a significant interest,” U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno wrote.

Cosby, 77, has been accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct in episodes dating back more than four decades.

Source: Associated Press, Washington Post