Bill Cosby is facing being forced to testify under oath over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman inside the statute of limitations.
The shamed comic has been labeled a ‘serial rapist’ in a damaging lawsuit filed by a model who claims the star drugged and sexually assaulted her at a Playboy mansion party in 2008.
Chloe Goins says she was just 18 when the aged comedian spiked her drink with a sedative and lured her into a bedroom before launching a chilling sexual attack on her at one of Hugh Hefner’s parties.
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Chloe Goins claims Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at a Playboy Mansion party in 2008, when she was just 18 years old
Goins claims Bill Cosby spiked her drink with a sedative and lured her into a bedroom at Hugh Hefner's mansion before launching a horrifying sexual attack
LAPD has just completed its investigation into the alleged assault, which is within the statute of limitations, the Daily Mail Online has learned.
Detectives passed their findings to the US Attorney’s Office for central California just days ago, which will decide whether or not to press criminal charges.
Now Goins, 24, has filed a civil lawsuit against the Cosby Show star, 78, saying she wants ‘the truth to come out’.
The move will allow her lawyers to force him to answer questions under oath for the first time about an allegation which is inside the time period of statutes of limitation.
The lawsuit, to be filed on Tuesday in the United States District Court Central District of California, Los Angeles, describes how Goins immediately felt ‘sick to her stomach and dizzy’ after drinking an alcoholic beverage brought to her by Cosby at the party.
It seeks $75,000 damages which lawyers say is not an actual sum but a technical measure to allow the case to be filed.
‘It is Ms Goins belief that Mr Cosby had put some type of drug or narcotic in the drink without her knowledge,’ the suit says.
The court document goes on to detail how Cosby then took unwell Goins to a bedroom in the playboy mansion where she ‘blacked out’.
‘Ms Goins awoke sometime later,’ the court papers state.
Goins, now 25, has filed a civil lawsuit against Cosby, saying she wants 'the truth to come out'. The suit seeks $75,000 in damages, which Goins' lawyers say is not an actual sum, but a measure to allow the case to be filed
‘When she awoke, she was laying on her back on a bed and she was naked. Her clothes had been removed, without her consent.
‘Ms Goins awoke to find that her breasts were wet and sticky, as if someone had been licking them, and Mr Cosby was biting on one of her toes as he crouched at the end of the bed.’
After waking up Goins asked Cosby what he was doing and he immediately left, the lawsuit continues.
The incident left her feeling ‘scared, afraid, embarrassed and repulsed at what had just occurred’, it added.
The 15-page document goes on to state that Cosby ‘clearly intended to cause offensive contact with Ms Goins breasts and otherwise naked body, and did in fact cause contact with these parts of her body. ‘Mr Cosby also caused Ms Goins to have imminent fear of additional offensive contact with her groin.’
The lawsuit lists 40 other ‘victims’ of the veteran TV personality – once known as 'America’s favorite dad' - and details how Cosby allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted them over a period spanning 40 years.
The ten-page-long list includes Andrea Constand, who filed a civil sexual assault lawsuit against Cosby in 2005 before settling for an undisclosed amount, and supermodel Janice Dickinson, who claims Cosby drugged and sexually attacked her in 1982.
The lawsuit states that the list ‘shows he [Cosby] has a habit, practice and/or modus operendi of drugging and sexually assaulting women without their consent.'
The suit even goes so far to label the stand-up comedian a ‘serial rapist,’ adding, ‘The nature of these activities establishes a history of a serial rapist that has been conducting these horrendous activities against women for over the last 40 years.’
Goins claims that on the night of the party, she woke up on a bed naked and found Cosby 'biting at one of her toes'. When she asked what he was doing, he immediately left, she claims
Goins is suing Cosby for an unspecified amount claiming the alleged attack left her suffering from ‘emotional distress, psychological and psychiatric trauma, mental anguish, humiliation, confusion, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, loss of dignity’, and also caused her to miss out on a ‘proper and complete education’.
However Goins’s lawyer Spencer Kuvin said his client’s number one priority was that the truth comes out and Cosby is prosecuted for his actions.
Kuvin, who represented victims of notorious billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, said, ‘We wanted to make sure that the police had enough to time to do a full investigation so we waited until the police completed their entire investigation.
‘They’ve now done that - they notified us two days ago. The investigation is now complete and has been turned over to the States attorney’s office to determine whether charges should be filed.
‘Chloe is ready and available to speak with the States attorney if they need any additional information but on behalf of her individually I have to protect her claim by filing this lawsuit in civil court to make sure that the statute of limitations is preserved and that her claim is preserved.
‘Her first and primary issue is the prosecution of Cosby. And if in fact the states attorney decides to charge him then we will wait to pursue this civil action. I need to protect her interests while that’s pending.’
Kuvin insisted that money was not his client’s primary motive.
He added, ‘We filed for an amount in excess of $75,000 but the only reason that number is in there is because we need to reach the jurisdictional limit of the court.
Even though dozens of women have come forward claiming to have been attacked by Cosby, the comedian has denied wrongdoing and has never been charged with a crime
‘Chloe’s primary interest now and has always been is getting to the truth and making sure that everyone that is involved is under oath and deposed.
‘At the end of the day civil litigation can only bring money. We can’t put people in jail, we can’t make things completely better.
‘Sometimes money justice is the only thing that you can get but right now what Chloe wants is for people to be under oath and deposition - like Mr Cosby and Mr Hefner and all of the other people involved - so we can get to the truth and make sure the public knows the truth.
‘She’s been called all kinds of names - along with the other women - and now it’s time for the truth to come out at long last.’
In an exclusive with Daily Mail Online last year, Goins talked about how she wanted to obtain justice for all Cosby’s alleged victims, who cannot prosecute Cosby themselves as the statute of limitations has passed.
'This isn't something I really wanted out there about myself, but I saw all the women who had come forward, over 20 women and it grossed me out,’ she said.
‘I feel he needs to pay for it, he deserves to pay for it.’
Cosby has always denied all wrongdoing and has never been charged with any crime.
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