Excerpts From Cosby’s Deposition - jaw-dropping admissions from a brazen, unapologetic predator. [View all]

[Surya Gayatri]

I walk her out. She does not look angry. She

does not say to me, don’t ever do that again.

She doesn’t walk out with an attitude of a

huff, because I think that I’m a pretty decent

reader of people and their emotions in these

romantic sexual things, whatever you want to

call them."

Over the course of four days in 2005 and 2006, Bill Cosby answered questions posed to him by a lawyer for a woman, Andrea Constand, who said Mr. Cosby had drugged and molested her. In the questioning, conducted by Ms. Constand’s lawyer, Dolores M. Troiani, Mr. Cosby denied that he had sexually assaulted Ms. Constand or other women who surfaced during that case with their own accounts of being preyed upon by Mr. Cosby. But he did acknowledge that he had used powerful sedatives to lure women for sex and employed multiple strategies to keep his wife, Camille, from finding out.

In the court case, 13 women came forward with anonymous sworn statements to support Ms. Constand, saying that they, too, had been molested in some way by Mr. Cosby. But they never had a chance to pursue their claims in court because, six months after the fourth and final day of his deposition, Mr. Cosby settled the case with Ms. Constand on undisclosed terms. His deposition was filed away, another document in a settled court case, until now.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/18/arts/bill-cosby-deposition-excerpts.html

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Comment under the article has an interesting perspective:

"This is Hollywood--the kind of things Cosby has done have been going on for years. He's not the only one. But what did him in was holding himself up as some stalwart of taste and decorum, going on about how young black men should behave better these days. He was literally a man in a glass house throwing stones. It was a young black comic who called him out on his hypocrisy. When he continued to try to perform, I wondered why he was putting himself out on stage, and then it hit me-- he has a lot of people to pay off. He needs money."