*Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexually abusing Judy Huth in 1975 when she was a 16-year-old. A civil jury has ordered him to pay $500,000.
Huth, now age 64, alleged in her lawsuit that Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles. Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean previously said that Cosby took Huth to the mansion but claims she was not a minor at the time and that no sexual assault took place.
“It is extraordinarily difficult to defend against an allegation from 50 years ago,” said Bonjean ahead of the civil trial. “Nobody could do it, innocent, guilty or something in between,” Bonjean, who also represented Cosby in his criminal case and is representing R. Kelly in his Chicago child pornography trial, said outside court. “You work you work you work to create a defense, and then all of a sudden at the last minute, it’s a bait-and-switch.”
As reported by Variety, Huth’s attorney, Gloria Allred, said the ruling in her client’s favor is a win toward “real change.”
Source: Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing Teenager in 1975
