Cosby accused of 1990 sexual assault
A woman sued Bill Cosby in New Jersey on Thursday, accusing the entertainer of drugging and sexually assaulting her at a hotel in Atlantic City in 1990, when she was 26.
The woman, Lili Bernard, now 57, an actor and visual artist, was able to file the suit because New Jersey overhauled its laws on the statute of limitations for sexual assault cases in 2019.
Bernard, a former guest star on “The Cosby Show,” said Cosby acted as her mentor before drugging and raping her at the Trump Taj Mahal.
The suit comes more than three months after Cosby, 84, was freed from prison in Pennsylvania, where he was serving a three- to 10-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting another woman, Andrea Constand.