Bill Cosby's lawyer steps in as Janice Dickinson claims the TV legend sexually assaulted her too
The supermodel and TV host claimed that The Cosby Show legend Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 1982.
14:32 19 November 2014
Janice Dickinson has claimed that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982. The revelation came during an Entertainment Tonight interview that aired on Tuesday and follows others in the entertainment industry who have spoken out to say that the TV star assaulted them.
The model and television host said that the incident, which took place in Lake Tahoe, California was supposed to be part of her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel. However, she claims, Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details.
She told Entertainment Tonight that after dinner, Cosby gave her some red wine and a pill, which she thought was for her stomachache. She continued: “The next morning I woke up and I wasn’t wearing my pyjamas and I remembered before I passed out I had been sexually assaulted by this man.”
She said she remembered Cosby dropping the robe he had been wearing and getting on top of her. But she never confronted the comedian about the incident.
“I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do and this happened to me and this is a true story,” she said.
Cosby's lawyer Marty Singer said in a statement: "Janice Dickinson's story accusing Bill Cosby of rape is a complete lie.
"She did an interview with the New York Observer in September 2002 entitled 'Interview with the Vamp' completely contradicting her story. She claimed that because "she didn't want to sleep with him (Cosby), he blew her off.
"You can confirm with Harper Collins that she never claimed that Mr Cosby raped her, that no attorney representing Bill Cosby tried to kill the story (since there was no such story) and no one tried to prevent anything she wanted to say about Bill Cosby in her book.
"The only story she gave 12 years ago in her autobiography as well as her interview with the media was that she refused to sleep with Mr Cosby and he blew her off."