A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager, and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.
This week's verdict came nearly a year after actor and comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison when Pennsylvania's highest court threw out his sexual assault conviction in a different criminal case there. File photo.A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager, and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.
The verdict came nearly a year after Cosby was freed from prison when Pennsylvania's highest court threw out his sexual assault conviction in a different criminal case there.Huth, now 64, said she was “elated” by the ruling in the case, which she filed in 2014 after media reports detailed accusations against Cosby by multiple women. Those reports helped stir up memories of her encounter with Cosby, Huth said, and triggered four years of anxiety and other symptoms.