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Dickinson Accuses Cosby Of Sexual Assault

Marah Alindogan |
November 18, 2014 | 9:25 p.m. PST

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(Facebook/The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency)
(Facebook/The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency)
Janice Dickinson can add herself to the list of women coming forward with rape allegations against Bill Cosby. 

In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dickinson said Cosby raped her in 1982. Dickinson initially met Cosby to discuss a potential role in The Cosby Show. She later traveled to Lake Tahoe, at the request of Cosby, because he wanted to offer her the job. 

While having dinner with Cosby in Lake Tahoe, Dickinson complained about pain due to menstrual cramps and he gave her a pill alongside a glass of red wine.

The next morning, Dickinson woke up and realized she had been sexually assaulted by Cosby. 

"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 and there was semen in between my legs,” Dickson said. 

Dickinson, who has been keeping this secret for 32 years, said she never confronted Cosby after the incident. However, she decided to come forward because she said it’s the right thing to do. 

“I believe all the other women,” Dickinson said. 

Four other women, Andrea Constand, a former director of operations for the Temple University women’s basketball team, Tamara Green, Joan Tarshis, an ex-publicist, and Barbara Bowman, a former aspiring actress, have publicly come out with allegations against Cosby.  Constand filled a lawsuit in 2005 against Cosby with papers revealing that Green and 12 other women had also come forward with the same accusation. The case was settled out of court though the terms were not disclosed. Green told the Today show in 2005 that Cosby raped her after giving her pills that knocked her unconscious in the 1970s.  Tarshis and Bowman are the most recent women coming out. Tarshis says Cosby sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions in 1969, while Bowman’s allegation was reveled in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post earlier this month. 

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Bowman described the first incident with great detail:

“I blacked out after having dinner and one glass of wine at his New York City brownstone, where he had offered to mentor me and discuss the entertainment industry. When I came to, I was in my panties and a man’s t-shirt, and Cosby was looming over me. I’m certain now that he drugged and raped me. But as a teenager, I tried to convince myself I had imagined it. I even tried to rationalize it: Bill Cosby was going to make me a star and this was part of the deal.”

The last incident occurred in Atlantic City for an industry event attended by Bowman and Cosby:

“I was staying in a separate bedroom of Cosby’s hotel suite, but he pinned me down in his own bed while I screamed for help. I’ll never forget the clinking of his belt buckle as he struggled to pull his pants off. I furiously tried to wrestle from his grasp until he eventually gave up, angrily called me “a baby” and sent me home to Denver.”

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How has Cosby responded to such accusations?

Silence.

In an NPR interview with Scott Simon, Cosby does not utter a single word when the topic is brought up. He only responds by shaking his head “no.” 

But with Dickinson’s latest—and most shocking—announcement, the world is waiting for Cosby to break his silence. 

Whether he stays silent or not, Dickinson has strong and telling words for Cosby. 

"How dare you," she said "Go f*ck yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot.”

READ MORE: Another alleged rape victim of Bill Cosby speaks out on CNN;  Here's Everything We Know (and Don't Know) About the Bill Cosby Rape Allegations

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