Crime & Safety

Bergen County Woman Comes Forward as Alleged Bill Cosby Rape Victim

P.J. Masten, a former Playboy bunny, alleges she was raped by Cosby in 1979 after she was given a drink in his hotel room.

A Bergen County woman, and former Playboy bunny, has stepped forward and accused Bill Cosby of raping her in 1979 while she was working as a Bunny manager at the Playboy club in Chicago.

P.J. Masten, now 64 from Lyndhurst, alleges Cosby served her a glass of Grand Marnier on the rocks after she arrived at his Whitehall Hotel room in Chicago, according to the NY Daily News. Masten said she doesn’t remember anything after that.

But what Masten does remember is waking up at 4 a.m. to find she was lying in bed naked next to Cosby. “I knew I had been raped,” Masten told the NY Daily News. She found her clothes in a pile on the floor and left.

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Cosby is the second celebrity Masten has accused of sexual abuse, according to the NY Daily News. And for Cosby, there has been at least 10 women to come forward and accuse the comedian of sexual abuse since 2005, according to TIME.


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