Did Bill Cosby pay off women?
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Just when you thought the Bill Cosby stories couldn't get any worse, there come more awful stories.
New York Post columnist Richard Johnson has a new one that's, for once, not about a woman being allegedly drugged and raped.
Instead it is about Cosby allegedly selling out his own family member.
Johnson says the story comes from a tabloid journalist he's known for years, who was working for the National Enquirer in 1989, when Cosby was at the height of his fame. Johnson said his fried was working on a story to run in the Enquirer about Cosby “swinging with Sammy Davis Jr. and some showgirls in Las Vegas.”
When the paper contacted Cosby for comment on the story, the reporter says the comedian offered them another one as a trade. That story was about Cosby's 23-year-old daughter daughter Erinn's battles with drugs and alcohol.
“My editor told me that daddy Cosby was the source," the source told Johnson. "He ratted out his flesh and blood.”
Cosby was also quoted in the item saying: “Deep down inside, she knows we love her.”
Cosby, 77, has been publicly accused by 18 women of sexually assaulting them or attempting to sexually assault them over the past four decades. His lawyers have denies the claims and called many of the women liars and opportunists. Cosby refused to address the stories in recorded interviews with the Associated Press and National Public Radio. He told the publication Florida Today: "I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos."
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