Cosby had a big espresso machine installed in the room, and he insisted Johnson have a cup. They talked about her career and Cosby led her upstairs, under the pretense that they would rehearse. Cosby served them brunch and gave them a tour of the house. The first time, Johnson brought her young daughter with her. Johnson met Cosby on the set, where he invited her to come over to his house to read for a part. Johnson got a call from her agent saying Cosby wanted Johnson to audition for a small role on The Cosby Show. But they were met, mostly, with skepticism, threats, and attacks on their character. Several of them eventually made their names public. Eventually, 12 Jane Does signed up to tell their own stories of being assaulted by Cosby in support of Constand’s case. After her allegations were made public, a California lawyer named Tamara Green appeared on the Today show and said that, 30 years earlier, Cosby had drugged and assaulted her as well.

In 2005, a former basketball star named Andrea Constand, who met Cosby when she was working in the athletic department at Temple University, where he served on the board of trustees, alleged to authorities that he had drugged her to a state of semi-consciousness and then groped and digitally penetrated her. A decade earlier, 14 women had accused Cosby of rape. Perhaps the most shocking thing wasn’t that Buress had called Cosby a rapist it was that the world had actually heard him. I’ve done this bit onstage and people think I’m making it up … That shit is upsetting.” The bit went viral swiftly, with irreversible, calamitous consequences for Cosby’s reputation. Dude’s image, for the most part, it’s fucking public Teflon image. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when a Philadelphia magazine reporter at a Hannibal Buress show uploaded a clip of the comedian talking about Bill Cosby: “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up, black people … I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches … I guess I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women’s movement began. Click Portrait for Each Woman’s Account iv.

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