New York Daily News

COSBY RAPE HELL

Model relives ’82 ‘pain’ in hotel

- BY BOB STEWART and NANCY DILLON

MODEL JANICE DICKINSON walked into a Pennsylvan­ia courtroom Thursday, swore on a Bible and testified with graphic detail that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her in a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 1982.

She said the comedian personally called her while she was in rehab in Bali and paid for her to fly to Reno, Nev., so they could meet and discuss her career.

She trusted him, she said. She was 27 and he was 45.

“He was ‘America’s Dad,’ very well respected,” the former supermodel and reality TV star said.

Dickinson, who is arguably Cosby’s most famous accuser, said it wasn’t long before the comedian tempted her with red wine, despite knowing she’d been in treatment for alcoholism.

When she complained of menstrual cramps, he urged her to take a pill that he provided, she said.

She was “rendered motionless” by the mystery medication, she testified.

“He got on top of me and his robe opened ... I remember he smelled like cigars and espresso and his body odor,” Dickinson said.

“Here’s a married man, father of five kids, on top of me,” she testified. “I was thinking how wrong it was. How very wrong it was.”

She was incapacita­ted, but she clearly felt penetratio­n, she said.

“Before I passed out, I felt pain between my legs,” she said. “It was gross.”

Dickinson first went public with her claim in 2014. Cosby’s lawyer at the time, Marty Singer, quickly branded her a liar, citing her 2002 memoir, “No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel.”

In the book, Dickinson said she had dinner with Cosby (both pictured) that night and received “the dirtiest, meanest look in the world” from him when she declined to go back to his hotel room.

During cross-examinatio­n Thursday, Cosby’s defense lawyer held up a copy of the book and confronted Dickinson over the “completely different story” told in the tome.

“Today I put my hand on a Bible and I swore. I wasn’t under oath when I wrote that book,” Dickinson shot back.

She said she tried to include the rape claim in the memoir, but HarperColl­ins forced her to take it out. She only went along with the sanitized version because she needed the money, she testified.

After Cosby’s camp first accused Dickinson of fabricatin­g her rape claim, she sued for defamation in May 2015.

Cosby, 80, is currently on trial for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University women’s basketball manager Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelph­ia mansion in 2004.

He has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual assault in Montgomery County. If convicted on any count, he could face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

A prior trial on the same charges last year ended with a deadlocked jury.

Dickinson was the fourth of five so-called “prior bad act” witnesses to take the stand this time around.

Prosecutor­s are calling the women in an effort to show Cosby was a practiced predator who used similar methods on multiple victims.

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