Bill Cosby admits to having drugged at least one woman with Quaaludes in 1976 to have sex with her, in court documents that were unsealed on Monday EMBATTLED US comedian Bill Cosby admitted to having drugged at least one woman with Quaaludes to have sex with her, in court documents that were unsealed on Monday.Mr Cosby, accused of sexual assault by about 30 women over decades, but who has so far escaped justice, made the admission in a deposition in 2005, talking about an incident from 1976.He was questioned by Dolores Troiani, a lawyer for Andrea Constand, a former women’s basketball director at Philadelphia’s Temple University where Mr Cosby studied and was a member of the board of trustees. Ms Constand took her rape case to court, but the case was dropped. Mr Cosby’s lawyers had long sought to block publication of the court transcripts, but they were released on Monday on the Pacer public court records website. In one exchange between Mr Cosby and Ms Troiani, the comic admitted h...
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