Janice Dickinson Accuses Bill Cosby Of Rape, Claims He Pressured Her Into Not Telling Her Story
Supermodel Janice Dickinson claims that she was raped by Bill Cosby, telling Entertainment Tonight in an exclusive interview that the comedian sexually assaulted her back in 1982. Cosby, who was recently called a serial rapist by comedian Hannibal Buress, has multiple rape allegations against him, with Dickinson’s being one of the newest to surface.
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Last month actress Barbara Bowman, 47, told the Daily Mail that Cosby “drugged and raped” her multiple times when she was just 17 years old. She spoke about being sexually abused at the hands of the actor she called “a monster” and hoped that other victims would come forward — perhaps prompting Janice Dickinson to tell her story.
Dickinson tells ET that she first met with Bill Cosby in 1982 to inquire about a possible role on The Cosby Show. Not long after their meeting, she received a call from Cosby who asked her to travel to Lake Tahoe where he was performing. Dickinson states that he wanted to offer her the job on The Cosby Show and also told her he was interested in helping her with her singing career.
During dinner, Janice, now 59, claims that Cosby gave her a pill with a glass of red wine after she told him she had stomach pains associated with her period. From that point on, her story is no longer about a potential job and help with a singing career — instead it is one of alleged sexual abuse.
“The next morning I woke up, and I wasn’t wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted… the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off…”
Why didn’t Janice Dickinson come forward back in 1982? She states that she was “pressured” by Cosby’s lawyers not to publish information about her assault in her autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, published in 2002.
After all these years, she is coming forward, perhaps because so many other women are finally doing the same. For years she says that she was “afraid of the consequences” and did’t want to be labeled “a whore or a s***.”
“I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do, and it happened to me, and this is the true story. I believe all the other women… stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issued has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn’t have counsel and I was afraid.”
Now that Dickinson has come forward with her story, she is no longer afraid, telling ET that she hopes that Bill Cosby “rots” for what he allegedly did to her and other women.
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