Actor Bill Cosby to pay $19m to ex-waitress .... Jury orders
Posted: 24 Mar 2026, 06:00
A jury in California has ordered Bill Cosby to pay $19.25m (£14.3m) in damages to a former waitress after finding he drugged and sexually assaulted her while taking her to one of his shows more than five decades ago.
Donna Motsinger said the former star gave her wine and a pill that left her incapacitated after picking her up at her home in a limousine in 1972.
Cosby, 88, has denied Motsinger's allegations, along with similar claims in a string of civil and criminal cases filed by dozens of women.
He was freed from prison in Pennsylvania in 2021 nearly three years into a sentence for sex assault after his conviction was thrown out on a technicality. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1eq7v91n4xo
Donna Motsinger said the former star gave her wine and a pill that left her incapacitated after picking her up at her home in a limousine in 1972.
Cosby, 88, has denied Motsinger's allegations, along with similar claims in a string of civil and criminal cases filed by dozens of women.
He was freed from prison in Pennsylvania in 2021 nearly three years into a sentence for sex assault after his conviction was thrown out on a technicality. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1eq7v91n4xo