Showing posts with label Bill Cosby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Cosby. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

BILL COSBY RESIGNS…amidst the rape allegations

Bill Cosby has resigned from his position on the board of trustees of his alma mater Temple University, Monday, amidst the rape allegations currently stacked against him. Cosby’s move comes days before the board was scheduled to meet in his regard.


“I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interest of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees,” Cosby said in a statement.


“The Board of Trustees accepts Dr. Cosby’s resignation from the board and thanks him for his service to the university,” the university responded.


Cosby recently resigned from his position as the co-chair of UMass Amherst’s capital campaign at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.





Cosby’s lawyer continues to deny the accusations against Cosby. While celebs like Jill Scott openly defend Cosby.

BILL COSBY RESIGNS…amidst the rape allegations

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NBC scraps Bill Cosby television project, after rape allegations

NBC says it has scrapped a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development, the second outlet within a day to put off or abandon a Cosby project after another sexual assault allegation against the comic emerged.


NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks said Wednesday the project “is no longer under development,” and had no further comment.


Netflix announced late Tuesday that it was postponing the Nov. 27 premiere of a new Cosby standup comedy special, giving no hint about whether it ever will be aired. Hours earlier in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” actress Janice Dickinson became the third woman in recent weeks to allege she’d been assaulted by Cosby — charges strongly denied by the comedian’s lawyer.


Dickinson told “Entertainment Tonight” that Cosby had given her red wine and a pill when they were together in a Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room in 1982. When she woke up the next morning, “I wasn’t wearing my pajamas and I remembered before I passed out I had been sexually assaulted by this man.”


Cosby’s lawyer, Martin Singer, said in a letter to The Associated Press that Dickinson’s charges were “false and outlandish” and were contradicted by Dickinson herself in a published autobiography. Cosby’s spokesman, David Brokaw, has not returned calls for comment.


The spiraling scandal has threatened the 77-year-old comedian’s reputation as America’s TV dad at a time when he was launching a comeback. He has at least 35 performances scheduled throughout the U.S. and Canada through May of 2015. None of the performances has been cancelled.


NBC’s project, announced in January, was in the very early stages, without a script or commitment to production. But it would have brought Cosby back to the network where he had reigned in the 1980s with the top-rated “The Cosby Show.”



NBC scraps Bill Cosby television project, after rape allegations