SANTA MONICA (CNS) – Trial is scheduled to begin Monday morning in a lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who alleges that he sexually abused her more than 50 years ago while she was working as a server at a Sausalito restaurant.
Donna Motsinger contends in her Santa Monica Superior Court sexual battery lawsuit that the actor/comedian came into the Trident restaurant every day during a stretch of 1972. Motsinger had served Cosby at his table and one day when she was headed to her Mill Valley home he followed her, pulled up next to the plaintiff and asked her if she would like to attend a show he was performing in San Carlos, according to the complaint.
Motsinger agreed and Cosby said he would pick her up later, the suit states. A limousine driver subsequently took Motsinger to the theater and on the way there Cosby gave her a glass of wine, the suit states.
“She began to feel sick and Mr. Cosby gave her what she believed was an aspirin,” the suit states, while adding that the next thing Motsinger knew she was going in and out of consciousness.
The last thing Motsinger remembers were flashes of light and waking up at home wearing only her underwear, the suit filed in September 2023 states.
“She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby,” the suit states.
Cosby’s attorneys say he does not remember any sexual contact with Motsinger and that if any occurred, it was consensual. The same lawyers also say Cosby denies giving Motsinger drugs without her permission.
The 88-year-old Cosby is not expected to testify. In June 2022, another Santa Monica civil jury found Bill Cosby liable for sexually abusing Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, when she was 16 years old. The panel awarded Huth $500,000.
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