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A woman suing Bill Cosby over allegations he sexually abused her as a teenager was distraught and in tears afterwards, her best friend has testified.

She said: "I thought it would calm her down to go swimming and stuff. Donna Samuelson was 17 when she claims the actor Bill Cosby took her and her friend on a surprise visit to the Playboy Mansion in 1975. Ms Samuelson testified that Cosby had met the two girls on a film set at a park in Los Angeles a few days earlier, and invited them to come to a club where he would be playing tennis. She said she initially felt angry because she had been looking forward to spending the rest of the afternoon and evening at the mansion, but then Ms Huth explained herself. Donna Samuelson, who was Ms Huth's best friend and 17 at the time, told the court she saw her crying and in deep distress minutes after the alleged incident. Judy Huth, now 62, alleges Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 after meeting her and her best friend at a Los Angeles park.

A LAWYER for a woman who accused Bill Cosby of assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s told a California jury on Wednesday the comedian had a ...

The court said Mr. Cosby should not have faced the charges because a previous local district attorney had publicly promised in 2005 not to prosecute him. In March, the US Supreme Court declined to review that decision. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. She is seeking unspecified damages for sexual battery and emotional distress. Mr. Cosby’s current accuser, Judy Huth, sued him in 2014 for sexual assault, seeking unspecified damages. Mr. Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean countered in her opening statement the alleged assault was a “fabrication,” though Mr. Cosby did not dispute that he invited Ms. Huth and her friend to the mansion. Donna Samuelson, a friend of Ms. Huth who said she was with her on the day of the alleged assault, told jurors that Huth told her what happened after Mr. Cosby left the pair at the mansion. In his opening statement, Ms. Huth’s lawyer Nathan Goldberg emphasized to the Santa Monica jury how Mr. Cosby was already a “star” when he met Ms. Huth, and he showed jurors a photo of them together from the day Ms. Huth said she was assaulted. Ms. Huth said she and a friend had met Mr. Cosby at a film set, and that Mr. Cosby invited the girls to meet him the next week, when he made Ms. Huth drink beer and molested her on a bed. “He has a sense of entitlement, and no fear,” Mr. Goldberg said, referring to Mr. Cosby. “He has a sense of invincibility.” A LAWYER for a woman who accused Bill Cosby of assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s told a California jury on Wednesday the comedian had a sense of “entitlement,” while Mr. Cosby’s lawyer called the alleged assault a “fabrication.” She said he brought her to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and forced her to perform a sex act around 1974, when she was 15.

A friend of a woman suing Bill Cosby alleging he sexually abused her as a teen testified that Judy Huth was distraught and in tears at the Playboy Mansion ...

“There's no typical response to a traumatic event but partying at the Playboy Mansion does not seem consistent.” “I thought it would calm her down to go swimming and stuff,” Samuelson testified. She convinced Huth to stay at the mansion. Then they had dinner in the mansion, sitting across from actor Peter Lawford. The trial represents one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out by an appeals court last year, and his insurer settled many other lawsuits against his will. “You will learn Judy Huth has been trying to cash in on these photos for decades.”

On Wednesday, a civil lawsuit against Bill Cosby by Judy Huth commenced. Huth claims she was sexually assaulted by the comedian in 1975, which would make ...

The actor has always maintained his innocence and it is no different with his latest trial. It was embarrassing and humiliating to her.” Huth asserts that Cosby tried to kiss her as well as put his hands down her pants.

The expert on memory was called to testify at a civil trial brought by Judy Huth, who is suing Mr. Cosby on grounds that he assaulted her decades ago.

In disputing Ms. Huth’s account, Mr. Cosby’s lawyers have challenged her recollection of their meeting, suggesting it had happened years after when she said it did, when she was no longer a minor. But more recently she concluded that it was actually in 1975, when she was 16. She said they had agreed to keep the encounter a secret because Ms. Huth felt embarrassed and humiliated. Ms. Huth, 64, who has been in attendance, is planning to give her account to the jury. She initially said that it had happened in 1974, when she was 15. She is scheduled to take the stand again on Friday. Dr. Ziv was called to testify by the lawyers for Ms. Huth, who says she was sexually assaulted by Mr. Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, when she was 16. “Most people just want to put it behind them,” Dr. Ziv said. Ms. Huth says in her suit that she was assaulted in 1975, several days after she and a friend met Mr. Cosby on a movie set in a park in San Marino, Calif., where he was shooting a film. On Thursday, Ms. Huth’s lawyers began presenting evidence from a woman who they say was 14 when Mr. Cosby suddenly tried to kiss her in his trailer on a different set of the same movie as the one he was filming when he encountered Ms. Huth. But testimony ended before the woman, Kimberly Burr, could provide much of her account. Days after the first meeting, at Mr. Cosby’s invitation, the two women went to his tennis club, Ms. Huth’s lawyers have said, drank alcohol he offered and followed him in their car to the Playboy Mansion. Once there, Ms. Huth has said, Mr. Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom. The impact of sexual assault on memory became the focus Thursday of the civil trial in Los Angeles where Bill Cosby has been sued by a woman, Judy Huth, who says he sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, some 47 years ago.

A lawyer for a woman who accused Bill Cosby of assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s told a California jury in the United States on ...

In March, the US Supreme Court declined to review that decision. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. She is seeking unspecified damages for sexual battery and emotional distress. Donna Samuelson, a friend of Huth who said she was with her on the day of the alleged assault, told jurors that Huth told her what happened after Cosby left the pair at the mansion. Cosby's current accuser, Judy Huth, sued him in 2014 for sexual assault, seeking unspecified damages. Huth said she and a friend had met Cosby at a film set, and that Cosby invited the girls to meet him the next week, when he made Huth drink beer and molested her on a bed.

A lawyer for a woman who accused Bill Cosby of assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s told a California jury in the United States on ...

In March, the US Supreme Court declined to review that decision. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. She is seeking unspecified damages for sexual battery and emotional distress. Donna Samuelson, a friend of Huth who said she was with her on the day of the alleged assault, told jurors that Huth told her what happened after Cosby left the pair at the mansion. Cosby's current accuser, Judy Huth, sued him in 2014 for sexual assault, seeking unspecified damages. Huth said she and a friend had met Cosby at a film set, and that Cosby invited the girls to meet him the next week, when he made Huth drink beer and molested her on a bed.

Read about the testimony of Donna Samuelson against Bill Cosby in a civil case brought against by Judy Huth over an alleged sexual assault in 1975.

“There's no typical response to a traumatic event but partying at the Playboy Mansion does not seem consistent.” She convinced Huth to stay at the mansion. “I thought it would calm her down to go swimming and stuff,” Samuelson testified. Then they had dinner in the mansion, sitting across from actor Peter Lawford. The trial represents one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out by an appeals court last year, and his insurer settled many other lawsuits against his will. “You will learn Judy Huth has been trying to cash in on these photos for decades.”

Judy Huth accused Bill Cosby of molesting her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 and filed a civil suit against him. Cosby has denied the allegations.

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She testified at a civil trial in Los Angeles brought by another woman accusing Mr. Cosby of sexual assault. A spokesman for Mr. Cosby denied all the ...

Mr. Cosby’s lawyers have noted in court proceedings that Ms. Huth’s recollection of when her encounter took place has changed: While she initially said it happened in 1974, when she was 15, she more recently concluded it was in 1975, when she was 16. Ms. Shapiro testified that she was 19 in 1975 when Mr. Cosby met her at the doughnut shop where she was working and invited her to the set of another movie he was filming in Los Angeles. Later that day, they went to the Playboy Mansion, where, she said, he drugged and assaulted her. Mr. Cosby walked free after serving nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence. She said she told a friend what had happened but never went to the police. Ms. Burr, who is now 61, said that she had met Mr. Cosby at a tennis tournament in Palm Desert that year, where he had invited her to the set of the film “Let’s Do It Again” in Los Angeles with the promise of being an extra. Mr. Cosby’s spokesman, Mr. Wyatt, issued a statement Friday afternoon which said that the accusers were “discrediting themselves” and questioned their accounts. Ms. Huth’s case is the first civil suit accusing Mr. Cosby of sexual assault to reach trial. In challenging Ms. Shapiro’s account in court, Ms. Bonjean questioned whether she was working at the doughnut shop on the morning she said she met Mr. Cosby, and whether she went to the Playboy Mansion. Ms. Shapiro said she stood by her account. She said that they had played pinball together in the game room at the mansion, and that he had offered her a pill after she lost. Days after their meeting, Mr. Cosby invited Ms. Huth and her friend to his tennis club, Ms. Huth’s lawyers have said, where Ms. Huth played a game where she had to drink alcohol every time he won at billiards, and then they both followed him in their car to the Playboy Mansion. Once there, Ms. Huth has said, Mr. Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom. In her lawsuit, Ms. Huth says that she was sexually assaulted by Mr. Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, when she was 16, after she and a friend met him in a park where he was filming “Let’s Do It Again,” the same movie he was working on when he met Ms. Burr. Ms. Burr was testifying in the civil trial in Los Angeles where Mr. Cosby has been sued by another woman, Judy Huth, who has accused Mr. Cosby of sexually assaulting her that same year, when she was also a teenager.

A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and...

“I might have gone,” Shapiro said. She said she later woke from unconsciousness to find him raping her. “He immediately grabbed me,” she said. Old photos from the mid-1970s have loomed large at the trial, one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out and other lawsuits were settled by his insurer. Two photos of Cosby and Huth at the Playboy Mansion were shown during earlier testimony. Huth would later meet Cosby on a different set of the same film.

The woman, now 61, told her story in a public venue for the first time during a Los Angeles County civil trial over the lawsuit of Judy Huth.

“I might have gone,” Shapiro said. She said she later woke from unconsciousness to find him raping her. Old photos from the mid-1970s have loomed large at the trial, one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out and other lawsuits were settled by his insurer. “He immediately grabbed me,” she said. Two photos of Cosby and Huth at the Playboy Mansion were shown during earlier testimony. Huth would later meet Cosby on a different set of the same film.

A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and kissed her.

“I might have gone,” Shapiro said. She said she later woke from unconsciousness to find him raping her. Old photos from the mid-1970s have loomed large at the trial, one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out and other lawsuits were settled by his insurer. “He immediately grabbed me,” she said. Two photos of Cosby and Huth at the Playboy Mansion were shown during earlier testimony. Huth would later meet Cosby on a different set of the same film.

The woman, now 61, testified in connection with a civil suit against Cosby accuser Judy Huth, who claims the disgraced comedian isolated and sexually assaulted ...

The woman said she was so “distraught” by Cosby’s actions that had not discussed the incident until years later, after she’d already been married. “He grabs her with both his hands and starts slobbering all over her, on her mouth, sticking his tongue down her throat. While on set, Cosby used false pretenses to lure the woman to his trailer.

A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and kissed her.

“I might have gone,” Shapiro said. She said she later woke from unconsciousness to find him raping her. Old photos from the mid-1970s have loomed large at the trial, one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out and other lawsuits were settled by his insurer. “He immediately grabbed me,” she said. Two photos of Cosby and Huth at the Playboy Mansion were shown during earlier testimony. Huth would later meet Cosby on a different set of the same film.