New York magazine cover story is largest exposé yet of alleged abuse from women who have publicly accused Bill Cosby of assault NEW YORK — Thirty-five women who allege they were sexually assaulted by US comedy legend Bill Cosby were united on Monday on a magazine cover to tell startlingly similar stories of abuse.They include models, waitresses, Playboy bunnies and women who used to work in show business. One says he raped her while she was grief stricken over the recent death of her six-year-old son.The New York magazine cover story is the largest exposé yet of alleged abuse from nearly 50 women who have publicly accused Mr Cosby of assault from the 1960s-1996 across the US.Mr Cosby, a pioneering African-American comedian who played a beloved family doctor on the hit 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show, has become a pariah in the wake of the snowballing scandal.Despite being interviewed separately, many of their stories are startlingly similar: that the famed comedian drugged them, then as...
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