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be removed from a scholarship fund.
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away an honorary degree, but “credible” allegations against the men warranted the action.
The Wall Street Journal last week reported that a number of women said they were harassed or assaulted by Wynn, with one case leading to a $7.5 million settlement.
Wynn has strongly denied the allegations, attributing them to a campaign led by his ex-wife. He resigned Saturday as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Wynn Resorts spokesman Michael Weaver said Wynn had no comment.
Following The Wall Street Journal report, the University of Iowa also said it would remove Wynn’s name from a research institute.
Cosby, who has had honorary degrees stripped by multiple universities, is scheduled to be retried in April on charges that he drugged and molested a woman in 2004 at his home near Philadelphia. His previous trial ended with a hung jury. His spokesman did not immediately return a voicemail seeking comment.
In 2015, a university spokesman told the campus newspaper that while the school found allegations against Cosby “deeply troubling,” it was not Penn’s practice to rescind honorary degrees.
In its statement Thursday, the university said the decision to strip Wynn of his honorary degree “made it also clear that the multiple and highly credible charges involving Bill Cosby warranted the same action.”