On Friday March 27, an all too common press conference took place: two new women came forward to accuse Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them many years ago. They join a list of more than three dozen other women who have made public allegations against the legendary comic in the last five months. While Cosby has yet to be formally charged with any crimes, his reputation has been badly battered, leaving it extremely hard for him to continue working.
According to a report by Page Six, "Sunni Welles and Margie Shapiro joined the more than three dozen women who have accused the 77-year-old comedian of sexual assault, reading statements alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. Welles said she was a 17-year-old aspiring singer at the time of her encounter with Cosby, which took place in the mid-1960s in Hollywood after a visit to a jazz club. Shapiro said she was 19 and working at a donut shop in Santa Monica, California, in November 1975 when she met Cosby, who drove her to his place, where she took a box of matches with his name on it as a souvenir. He later drove her to Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion, where she said she took a pill after losing a bet with Cosby, and woke up to him sexually assaulting her."
While attorneys for Cosby have yet to respond, they likely will to try and discredit Welles and Shapiro's allegations just as they have all of the others. While Cosby insists that he has done nothing wrong the fact remains that an enormous amount of women that have never met all share a very similar story about their experience with the icon. Even Chelsea Handler went on the record this week, telling of how she was invited to Cosby's hotel room as an up-and-coming comic and how she believes that if she hadn't brought people with her then she too would have been assaulted.
Do you think that anyone will ever come forward with an allegation that will result in charges against Cosby? Or is the fact that his career is all but ruined going to be the only kind of closure that these women will receive? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
