Bill Cosby Heads to Trial Again ... Though He Won't be There

Bill Cosby’s criminal case for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pa. mansion in 2004 may be over, but the civil suits filed against him by his accusers are starting to move forward.

First up is the one filed against him by Judy Huth, who says he molested her at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Cosby’s attorneys tried to have the case dismissed or delayed after Huth filed paperwork on May 5 saying the assault happened in 1975, when she was 16, not 1974, when she was 15, but late Tuesday a judge ruled the trial will proceed. Jury selection begins Monday. Cosby’s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, told the New York Post Cosby wouldn’t attend the civil trial because he is “legally blind” and traveling would be difficult.

Cosby is also being sued by former Cosby Show guest star Lili Bernard, who filed a civil suit against him in New Jersey in October 2021 for drugging and sexually assaulting her in Atlantic City, N.J. in 1990. No trial date has been set.

I won’t be at the Huth trial, but I’ll be tracking the news coverage.