Judy Huth Isn't The Only Woman Who Says She Was A Teen-Ager When Bill Cosby Drugged and/or Sexually Assaulted Them
Here's a list of all 13
Bill Cosby found guilty of sexually assaulting teen at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
It’s a headline I never thought I’d see. Though it was a civil case, not a criminal one, Judy Huth’s victory is still an astounding outcome for a man who has managed to beat the system for most of his adult life. (Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s spokesman, denies Huth’s accusations and said Cosby intends to appeal the Huth decision.)
The fight for justice for the Cosby survivors has now moved to the civil courts because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Cosby’s one and only conviction – for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pa. mansion in January 2004 – last summer. Cosby survivor Lili Bernard filed a civil sexual assault lawsuit against Cosby last October, which I wrote about back then, amid a wave of new laws giving sexual assault survivors a brief “look back” window to sue no matter how long ago the assault was. Cosby’s attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss her suit.
Judy Huth's trial got me thinking again about the teen-agers Bill Cosby is accused of drugging and/or sexually assaulting. Not only was Huth herself a teen when she says Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1975, but two other women testified that he assaulted them when they were teens THAT SAME YEAR. One of them, Kimberly Burr, had never spoken publicly about what happened to her before this trial. (Huth’s attorneys wanted a third – Renita Hill – to testify but the judge ruled against that.)
Just how many alleged teen victims are there? I wasn’t even sure, so I decided to do some research. By my count 13 of his 65 known victims were teens when they say he drugged and/or sexually assaulted them or attempted to do so. (I always says “known” because I know there are others out there who haven’t come forward.) That’s not to say it isn’t equally horrific for him to prey on adult women (and many of his victims were just barely adults), but there is something particularly vile about an adult preying on naive, vulnerable teen-agers, especially one known to millions as “America’s Dad.” Could there be a more perfect cover? And according to the Associated Press, in his video deposition for Huth’s case, excerpts of which were played in court, Cosby even admitted he never made sure “those he sought sexual relationships with were 18.”
With that in mind, here’s a chronological list of the women who were teens when they say Cosby drugged and/or sexually assaulted them or attempted to assault them . More details are in the links. (Cosby has denied all of these allegations):
Sunni Welles - Welles was a 17-year-old virgin when she said Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her twice in 1965. She met Cosby through her mother, who was an agent. I told her story in-depth in another post when she passed away last summer;
Carla Ferrigno: Ferrigno, the wife of former Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, told Inside Edition she was an 18-year-old Playboy bunny in 1967 when she went on a double date with Cosby and his wife, Camille. They went to a movie then went back to the Cosby's home in Beverly Hills. Camille disappeared, she said, and Cosby offered her a drink. She declined and he kissed her. She was able to push him off and left his home. Carla said she’d only told her husband about what Cosby had done until 2014 when she went public to support all of the other survivors coming forward. She also spoke about it with A& E in 2015 in this clip below:
Linda Traitz -Traitz (below) was a 19-year-old waitress at Cafe Figaro in Los Angeles in 1970 when she says Cosby tried to drug her. She said it happened when Cosby, who was part-owner of the restaurant and came in from time to time, offered her a ride home one night, drove out to the beach, opened a briefcase filled with assorted drugs and kept offering her pills to relax. “He began to get sexually aggressive with me and wouldn’t take ‘No,’ for an answer,” she wrote in a Facebook post in 2014. “I freaked out and demanded to be taken home”;
Linda Traitz age 19. Therese Serignese : Serignese (below), who was Jane Doe Number 10 in Constand’s civil lawsuit against Cosby, was 18 when she says Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her after one of his shows in Las Vegas in 1975. In his deposition in Constand’s case, Cosby admitted to giving her a Quaalude and having sex with her, but said it was consensual;
Therese Serignese around age 18. Judy Huth: Huth was 16 in 1975 when she said she and her friend met Cosby while he was filming the movie Let’s Do It Again at a California park. He invited them to the Playboy Mansion where she says he forced her to perform a sex act on him. Huth reported his attack to the LAPD in 2014, but the statute of limitations had expired. It hadn’t for civil cases, though;
Kimberly Burr: Burr was 14 when she says Cosby kissed her on the set of the movie Let’s Do It Again in 1975. She testified in Huth’s trial on June 3;
Margie Shapiro: Shapiro was 19 in 1975 when she said Cosby gave her a pill at the Playboy Mansion. She passed out and said she later woke to find him raping her;
Dona Speir, age 16, with Cosby around 1980.
Dona Speir: Speir (above ) was 16 in 1980 when she says she met Cosby through a neighbor that played tennis with him and passed along her headshot. Cosby began grooming her and her parents, then seduced her. She said she spent three years traveling the country with him, drinking and getting high. She has been sober now for more than 30 years and wrote about her experience in her 2019 book, The Naked Truth: The Fall and Rise of Dona Speir;
Renita Hill: Hill says she was drugged and raped repeatedly by Cosby during the years 1983 through 1987, according to USA Today. The defamation lawsuit she filed against him in 2015, which was subsequently dismissed, says she met Cosby in 1983 when she was 16 when he hired her for Picture Pages, a TV show he hosted, and that he told her parents he would be her "mentor”;
Barbara Bowman age 17 Barbara Bowman- Bowman (above) was a 17-year-old aspiring actress in 1985 when her agent introduced her to Cosby, saying he wanted to mentor her. That same year he drugged and sexually assaulted her at least twice, she said;
Chelan Lasha: Lasha (above) was a 15-year-old aspiring model when she first met Cosby in 1984 through her stepmother, who worked for a production company Cosby was affiliated with. Cosby struck up a friendship with Lasha’s grandmother, who was raising her in Las Vegas, and came to their home for dinner while her grandmother cooked up one of his favorite soul food meals. He even brought Jello Puddin Pops for the neighborhood kids. A couple of years later he invited her to his suite at the Las Vegas Hilton for a photo shoot for her portfolio. She was nursing a cold that day, so Cosby offered her what he said was an antihistamine, and she took it. Within a few minutes she was woozy, and couldn’t resist when he guided her to the bedroom and sexually assaulted her before she finally passed out. Hours later, Cosby woke her and told her she had to go home. She went straight to her guidance counselor’s home and told her what happened. She also told her sister and eventually her grandmother, but she was too scared to go to the police because a few days later, she said he called her and said, “People that talk too much can be quieted,” and hung up. Thirty-three years later she was finally able to confront him when she testified at Cosby’s second trial, shouting from the stand, “You remember, don’t you Mr. Cosby?” Here she is at Huth’s trial with fellow Cosby survivors Lili Bernard and Victoria Valentino:
From left: Cosby survivors Lili Bernard, Chelan Lasha and Victoria Valentino Jennifer Kaya Thompson: Thompson, who went on to become Jane Doe Number Two in Constand’s civil lawsuit against Cosby, was 17 years old when she walked into Faces, Sue Charney’s modeling agency, in New York City in February 1988 and told her she wanted to be a model. Charney quickly signed her, then sent her to meet Cosby, who was filming The Cosby Show in Queens at the time. He subsequently called Thompson’s parents, assuring them he would watch out for her if she moved to New York City to pursue her modeling career, then had them over for dinner at his Upper East Side townhouse once she did. Cosby kept his promise to her parents at first and even got her a role as an extra on The Cosby Show. However, it wasn’t long before she said his attention began making her uncomfortable. He began pressing her to go to dinner with him and told her afterward she would spend the night. Shaken, she abruptly moved back home less than a year after arriving and mailed him an angry poem she’d written about him. He called her and convinced her to come back to New York City to talk, but instead she says he forced her to perform a sex act on him at his Upper East Side townhouse. (In his deposition for Constand’s civil suit, Cosby said the sex act was consensual.) Thompson destroyed all of the photos of herself at that age after the assault, but you can see her in this 1988 Showtime at the Apollo variety show video below, starting at minute 2:26. Cosby invited her to the show, which he was guest hosting, early on in their mentorship, she said. She sat in the front row and singer Howard Hewett pulled her to the stage to slow dance with him:
Chloe Goins: Goins said she was 18 when Cosby drugged and molested her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2008.
Nicki Weisensee Egan is the author of the book CHASING COSBY, host and executive producer of the podcast based on the book, coauthor of VICTIM F and an investigative journalist. You can see more of her work at
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