The lawyer for a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by now-disgraced comedian Bill Cosby at a Playboy Mansion party in 2008 claims that he is in possession of a cache of sex tapes from the private collection of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, and that he will introduce them as evidence in an upcoming civil trial in a lawsuit against Cosby, according to a report by Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper.
Florida attorney Spencer Kuvin represents model Chloe Goins, 28, who said in 2014 that Cosby drugged and assaulted her at the mansion when she was 18 years old. In 2015, she filed a civil lawsuit against Cosby accusing him of sexual battery. At least 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault or other sexual misconduct, according to The Washington Post. Of those accusers, 33 have reportedly filed civil lawsuits against the once-beloved star of the iconic 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show.
Kuvin says that he has viewed “hundreds of hours” of the raunchy recordings, and that “dozens” of well-known celebrities appear on the Hefner sex tapes. As AVN.com reported in November, Playboy “insiders” now claim that Hefner disposed of his personal, homemade sex tape collection by ordering an aide to place the tapes into a cement-lined coffin and dumping it in the ocean—specifically because he feared the reputations of celebrities who appear on the tapes would be ruined were they ever to surface.
But according to the Mail report, Kuvin says that Playboy Enterprises handed over the tapes, which appeared to be “professionally edited and produced,” to him.
When Goins sued Cosby, she also included Hefner—who died in 2017 at age 91—as a defendant in the lawsuit, claiming that Hefner conspired with Cosby to cause her sexual assault, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In September, the now-81-year-old Cosby was sentenced to serve between three and 10 years in a state prison after he was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Andrea Constand, a former professional basketball player and athletic official at Cosby’s alma mater, Temple University. Cosby was convicted of drugging Constand, then sexually assaulting her while she was rendered immobile by the drugs, according to a Post account.
Goins, as do many of Cosby’s accusers, tells a similar story. She says that at the private Playboy Mansion party, she quickly became incapacitated after just a few sips of a drink that Cosby had obtained for her. She then woke up in a mansion bedroom as Cosby was assaulting her, with his pants around his ankles, she claims, according to a New York Daily News account.
“She woke up some time later, all of her clothes off, with Cosby down by her toes. He bit one of her toes, causing her to wake up,” Kuvin said at a press conference. “Her breasts felt wet and sticky, like someone had been licking them.” When he realized that Goins was conscious, Cosby immediately pulled up his pants and rushed from the room, Kuvin said.
In the lawsuit, Goins alleges that Hefner told her she appeared “woozy” and that she should go the bedroom to lie down. Goins alleges that Hefner “knew or should have known [that Cosby] over the years had a propensity for intoxicating and/or drugging young women and taking advantage of them sexually and against their will or while they were unconscious,” according to The Hollywood Reporter account.
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