Bill Cosby accused of sexual abuse in new lawsuit filed by ‘The Cosby Show’ stand-in

Bill Cosby is facing more legal backlash as another woman sues the star of “The Cosby Show” for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing her in the 1980s.

Cosby, who was freed from prison in 2021 on a technicality, is once again at the center of multiple sexual harassment lawsuits, filed before New York’s Adult Survivors Act expires Friday. The law, which took effect on Nov. 24, 2022, opened a one-year “lookback window” during which adults who allege they were abused could sue despite the statute of limitations having run out.

In her lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York’s state Supreme Court, the anonymous accuser said she met Cosby while working on his show as a stand-in and that he offered tips and engaged in acting exercises with her in his dressing room. The woman said Cosby acted as a mentor and invited her to his home. Once in the actor’s home, the woman said she blacked out after drinking wine allegedly laced with an intoxicant. The lawsuit says Cosby’s accuser woke up “partially undressed and vomiting into a toilet.”

Bill Cosby stares off into space with pursed lips and a furrowed brow.

Bill Cosby facing a new sexual-assault lawsuit in Los Angeles from ex-Playboy model

Cosby’s anonymous accuser is seeking damages for battery, assault, infliction of emotional distress and false imprisonment.

In a statement to The Times on Wednesday, Cosby representative Andrew Wyatt did not comment on the latest lawsuit, but said that lookback windows “are being abused to go after successful, wealthy men.”

The lawsuit also accuses Kaufman Astoria Studios, the Carsey-Werner Co. and NBCUniversal of negligence related to Cosby’s purported behavior. NBCUniversal declined to comment Wednesday. Representatives for the other two companies did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for comment.