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=== Additional assault allegations === After Buress's remarks came to the attention of journalist Joan Tarshis, in November 2014,<ref name="Hughes">{{cite news |last1=Hughes |first1=Jason |date=November 18, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby Is a 'Serial Rapist', Accuser Joan Tarshis Tells CNN's Don Lemon (Video) |url=https://tv.yahoo.com/news/bill-cosby-accuser-joan-tarshis-alleges-did-much-092100511.html |access-date=November 19, 2014}}</ref> model [[Janice Dickinson]],<ref name="Bueno">{{cite news |last=Bueno |first=Antoinette |date=November 18, 2014 |title=Janice Dickinson Details Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Accusations: He Raped Me |work=Entertainment Tonight |url=http://www.etonline.com/news/154076_janice_dickinson_details_alleged_bill_cosby_sexual_assault/ |access-date=November 18, 2014}}</ref> actress [[Louisa Moritz]],<ref name="Fox News">{{cite news |date=November 21, 2014 |title=Lou Ferrigno's wife Carla Ferrigno accuses Bill Cosby of assault; more come forward |publisher=Fox News Channel |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lou-ferrignos-wife-carla-ferrigno-accuses-bill-cosby-of-assault-more-come-forward/ |access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> actor [[Lou Ferrigno]]'s wife Carla,<ref name="Fox News" /> Florida nurse Therese Serignese,<ref name="huffpost-serignese">{{cite news |date=November 20, 2014 |title=Therese Serignese, Florida Nurse, Says Bill Cosby Drugged and Raped Her in 1976 |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/20/therese-serignese-bill-cosby-rape-victim_n_6188270.html |access-date=November 23, 2014}}</ref> ''Playboy'' Playmates Valentino<ref name="d7074938">{{cite news |last=Roig-Franzia |first=Manuel |date=November 22, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby's legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-cosbys-legacy-recast-accusers-speak-in-detail-about-sexual-assault-allegations/2014/11/22/d7074938-718e-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html |access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> and Sarita Butterfield,<ref name="Butterfield">{{cite news |date=November 23, 2014 |title=Playboy bunny claims Bill Cosby tried to kiss, fondle her |work=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/playboy-bunny-claims-bill-cosby-kiss-fondle-article-1.2020517 |access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> actress [[Michelle Hurd]],<ref name="DailyBeastListofAccusersNov20143">{{cite news |last=Stern |first=Marlow |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby's Long List of Accusers (So Far): 18 Alleged Sexual Assault Victims Between 1965-2004 |newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/24/bill-cosby-s-long-list-of-accusers-so-far-17-alleged-sexual-assault-victims-between-1965-2004.html |access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> and eleven other women<ref name="DailyBeastListofAccusersNov20143" /> also made accusations of alleged assaults by Cosby committed against them between 1965 and 2004.<ref name="MyUser_The_New_York_Times_November_20_2014c">{{cite news |last1=Bowley |first1=Graham |last2=Manly |first2=Lorne |date=November 20, 2014 |title=7th Accuser Joins Claims of Assault by Bill Cosby |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/business/7th-accuser-joins-claims-of-assault-by-bill-cosby.html |access-date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> [[Charlotte Laws]] wrote a November 2014 article published by ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' accusing Cosby of assaulting a friend of hers, with whom she subsequently had lost contact.<ref name="Laws">{{cite news |last=Laws |first=Charlotte |date=November 30, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby and drugging: My 34-year-old secret |work=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/2014/11/30/bill_cosby_and_drugging_my_34_year_old_secret/ |access-date=October 10, 2017}}</ref> The following month, in a ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' article, model [[Beverly Johnson]] alleged that she was drugged by Cosby during a 1986 [[audition]], and that she knew other women with similar accounts.<ref name="Vanity_Johnson">{{cite magazine |date=December 11, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story. |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/12/bill-cosby-beverly-johnson-story |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> Cosby's attorney said Dickinson's account differed from prior accounts she had given of the incident and released a statement that said in part: "Mr. Cosby does not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment."<ref name="Littleton">{{cite news |last=Littleton |first=Cynthia |date=November 19, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby Lawyer Disputes Janice Dickinson's Rape Claim |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/bill-cosby-lawyer-disputes-janice-dickinsons-rape-claim-1201360149}}</ref> A follow-up statement dismissed the allegations as "unsubstantiated" and an example of "media vilification".<ref name="MyUser_The_Washington_Post_November_23_2014z">{{cite news |last=Singer |first=Martin D. |title=Statement by Martin D. Singer, attorney for Bill Cosby |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/lifestyle/statement-by-martin-d-singer-attorney-for-bill-cosby/1469 |access-date=November 23, 2014 |archive-date=November 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125061238/http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/lifestyle/statement-by-martin-d-singer-attorney-for-bill-cosby/1469/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> A joint statement from Cosby and Constand, who had received a civil settlement in 2006, clarified the statement released a few days prior by stating that it did not refer to Constand's case, which was resolved years ago.<ref name="billcosby.com/2014/11/1744">{{cite web |date=November 17, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby |url=http://billcosby.com/2014/11/1744/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141202001407/http://billcosby.com/2014/11/1744/ |archive-date=December 2, 2014 |access-date=December 1, 2014 |publisher=BillCosby.com}}</ref> In January 2015, Cindra Ladd alleged that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1969.<ref name="Fisher">{{cite web |last=Fisher |first=Luchina |date=January 27, 2015 |title=Bill Cosby Faces New Accuser, Cindra Ladd |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/bill-cosby-faces-accusations/story?id=28516908 |work=[[Good Morning America]]}}</ref> In May 2015, Lili Bernard claimed that Cosby sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, and that she had been interviewed by police in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], regarding the allegation. Because the state of New Jersey has no [[statute of limitations]] for rape, Bernard hoped charges would be brought, but media reports noted that "it wasn't clear{{nbsp}}...if what [Bernard] says happened to her happened in New Jersey."<ref name="Puente">{{cite news |last1=Puente |first1=Maria |date=May 1, 2015 |title=Cosby accuser aims for criminal charges |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/05/01/new-cosby-accuser-aims-for-criminal-charges/26720395/ |access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> On July 27, 2015, ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine's cover featured images of 35 women sitting in chairs with the last chair empty, suggesting there may be more victims who have not come forward yet. The 35 women told "their stories about being assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the culture that wouldn't listen". Eleven other women known to ''New York'' who alleged sexual assault by Cosby declined to be photographed and interviewed for the feature.<ref name="nymagexpose">{{cite news |last=Malone |first=Noreen |date=July 26, 2015 |title='I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url=https://nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html |access-date=July 27, 2015}}</ref> According to ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'', the stories span "more than five decades" and are "remarkably similar, typically involving the comedian offering a woman a cup of coffee or some sort of alcoholic beverage—which may be spiked with drugs—and allegedly sexually assaulting the victim as she's impaired or unconscious."<ref name="Lopez">{{cite web |last=Lopez |first=German |date=July 26, 2015 |title=35 Bill Cosby accusers posed for one defiant, powerful magazine cover |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/7/26/9044867/bill-cosby-new-york-magazine |access-date=July 27, 2015 |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref> On September 17, 2015, [[A&E (TV network)|A&E]] broadcast the documentary ''Cosby: The Women Speak'', a program in which thirteen alleged victims were interviewed.<ref name="A&E">{{cite news |date=September 17, 2015 |title=Cosby: The Women Speak |publisher=[[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]] |url=http://www.aetv.com/shows/cosby-the-women-speak |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Pilkington">{{cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Ed |date=September 18, 2015 |title=Bill Cosby back in the spotlight as 13 alleged victims give TV interviews |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/bill-cosy-back-in-the-spotlight-as-13-alleged-victims-give-tv-interviews |access-date=September 18, 2015}}</ref> By October 24, nearly sixty women had claimed they were sexually abused by Cosby,<ref name="usatoday.com">{{cite web |last1=Puente |first1=Maria |date=October 24, 2015 |title=Two more Cosby accusers go public as total nears 60 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/10/23/two-more-cosby-accusers-go-public-total-nears-60/74477228/ |access-date=January 18, 2016 |website=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> and the terms "[[sociopath]]"<ref name="DailyBeastListofAccusersNov20143" /> and "[[serial rapist]]"<ref name="Holley2">{{cite news |last=Holley |first=Peter |date=December 1, 2014 |title=Colleges cut ties with Bill Cosby as the list of women accusing him of sexual assault hits 20 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2014/11/28/colleges-cut-ties-with-bill-cosby-as-the-list-of-women-accusing-him-of-sexual-assault-hits-20/ |access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hughes" /><ref name="Thistlethwaite">{{cite news |last=Thistlethwaite |first=Susan |author-link=Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite |date=July 7, 2015 |title=Bill Cosby: Race, Gender and Serial Rape Denial |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-susan-brooks-thistlethwaite/bill-cosby-race-gender-an_b_7746964.html |access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref> were used to describe him. Jewell Allison, one of Cosby's accusers, described him as a "sociopath"<ref name="DailyBeastListofAccusersNov20143" /> and stated: "We may be looking at America's greatest serial rapist that ever got away with this for the longest amount of time. He got away with it because he was hiding behind the image of Cliff Huxtable."<ref name="Holley2" />
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