9 More Women Sue Bill Cosby For Sexual Assault

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — Another group of nine women has filed sexual assault lawsuits against Bill Cosby, this time in Nevada.

The new filing comes just shortly after the state lifted its statute of limitations for civil charges in sexual assault cases. Nevada followed California in the change, which also saw a fresh lawsuit filed against the 85-year-old Cosby earlier this month.

The women suing are Pam Joy Abeyta, Rebecca Cooper, Janice Dickinson, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Janice Baker Kinney, Lili Bernard, Heidi Thomas, Linda Kirpatrick, and Angela Leslie, according to the filing in U.S. District Court. The assaults occurred between 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas.

They are the latest in a long string of women who have filed formal sexual assault charges against Cosby, and is among dozens of accusers who have spoken out about the formerly iconic comedian’s behavior as a man in a position of power in a system that protected him and those like him for generations.

The accusations are similar to those in the past. According to the New York Post, one of the women says that Cosby drugged her with what he claimed to be a non-alcoholic sparking cider, before raping her.

Cosby has continuously denied all accusations.

Cosby’s first and only criminal conviction came in 2018 in Montgomery County, when he was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a Temple University employee, a Andrea Constand.

However, he only served three years of that sentence, as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overthrew the ruling based on a technicality in June 2021. Cosby was returned to his Cheltenham home to the cheers of a small cadre of ardent supporters and an upwelling of outrage from the woman who accused him and those convinced of his guilt.

The state Supreme Court ruling did not reject the points made by the prosecution in Cosby's 2018 criminal trial, and went as far as to acknowledge a "social interest" in holding powerful sexual abusers to account. Rather, the majority opinion was focused strictly on a 2005 immunity deal, which then-DA Bruce Castor said was made because there was insufficient evidence at the time to convict Cosby. In the testimony given as part of that deal, Cosby described giving quaaludes to women.