Michigan Woman Latest to Come Forward to Accuse Bill Cosby

A Michigan woman who says her role in the movie “Chameleon Street” caught the eye of Bill Cosby is the eighth to come forward in recent days to allege sexual assault by the embattled comedian and actor.

Angela Leslie, an actress and model who lives in Warren, told the New York Daily News that she she met Cosby in Las Vegas in 1992 for what she believed to be private acting lessons, but instead turned out to be a bizarre encounter that left her feeling “used.”

Leslie, now 52, said she decided to speak out now so people will “know him for who he really is.”

“He’s not the dad of America,” she said.

She said Cosby served her a cocktail that she tasted, but wasn’t able to drink. He allegedly asked her to go into the bathroom to wet her hair for an audition that would include her acting like she was intoxicated. When she returned, he was naked and asked her to perform sexual acts, she alleged in the interview with the New York Daily News.

She now thinks the cocktail included a drug that would knock her out. “I didn’t drink the alcohol, and maybe since I didn’t pass out, he decided to get rid of me,” she said.

“I felt so used,” she said. “I felt that he didn’t get what he wanted, and he threw me out. . . . He didn’t make me feel special in any way. He said, ‘Come here, put your hand here, do this.’ ”

She blames Cosby for her film career drying up.

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Meanwhile, Cosby brought an adoring audience to their feet Friday during a show in a 2,000-seat theater in Melbourne, FL, the Associated Press reports. His tour schedule has crumbled amid almost daily headlines about the sexual scandal.

A protester outside waved a sign reading “Rape is no joke,” but a large demonstration the venue prepared for with extra security didn’t materialize.

“I think people went in there with him as Bill Cosby from the TV show,” said Travis Weberling, 40, of Melbourne, “not the guy they heard about on the news.”

Cosby, meanwhile, has remained silent about the accusations.

“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,” Cosby told the Florida Today newspaper before the show. “People should fact check.”

His attorney, Martin Singer, told CBS News the accusations against the beloved American icon are “increasingly ridiculous.”

“The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity,” he said.

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