Bill Cosby Must Pay $19M To Sexual Assault Victim, Jury Finds: Report

ELKINS PARK, PA — One month after his name appeared in the Epstein files, disgraced comedian Bill Cosby now faces having to pay $19 million to settle sexual allegations dating back more than five decades, according to a report.

A civil jury decided on Monday that the 88-year-old actor and comedian — who lives in a mansion in Cheltenham Township — sexually assaulted Donna Motsinger, a former waitress, in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows, the New York Times reported.

Cosby lost an appeal on the case, the newspaper said.

Cosby appeared in the millions of documents — known as the "Epstein Files" — released recently by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The New Yorker magazine said that Cosby and Epstein lived across the street from one another as both owned townhouses on East 71st Street in Manhattan.

The comedian was sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars in 2018 after being convicted of drugging and sexually abusing Andrea Constand inside his Cheltenham home in 2004, according to a previous Patch story.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 2021 on procedural grounds. Epstein died by suicide in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Cosby was the first among a slew of powerful men brought to reckoning over charges that he abused his power for sexual gain, as the MeToo movement took off in the mid-2010s and toppled once powerful figures and convicted abusers like Harvey Weinstein.

Dozens of women came forward with similar allegations of abuse against Cosby since Constand's case became public, although Constand's case was the first that was brought to criminal trial.