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Bill Cosby has filed a defamation counterclaim against women who have accused him of sexual assault.

The lawsuit Cosby filed on Monday names accusers Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis and Angela Leslie.

Since the women can’t file a criminal case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, they chose to file defamation lawsuits against Mr. Cosby based on his denials of the allegations.

The women all accuse Cosby of dru

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(CNN) -- There was a time when it was de rigueur for black American households to have a subscription to Ebony magazine. Its pages were one of the only places in media where black families could see their faces, lives and interests reflected back at them.

And then came "The Cosby Show," the holy grail of media portrayals of African-American family life.

That's what makes the November cover of Ebony, which features an early portrait of Bill Cosby's TV family overlaid by shattered glass, so powe

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President Robert Sloan reads the citation recognizing Bill Cosby’s accomplishments as an educator, entertainer and parent. (Baylor University photo by Jason Raddin)

Baptist-affiliated Baylor University says “acts of interpersonal and sexual violence” alleged against the once-beloved comic “contradict our very mission and values.”

Baylor University acted Oct. 8 to rescind an honorary doctorate the school awarded to accused serial rapist Bill Cosby in 2003.

The 78-year-old comedian, facing le

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Actor and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner poses for a portrait Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. Warner, who won his first Grammy earlier this year for his work on Robert Glasper’s “Jesus Children,” is currently promoting his new album, “Selfless.” He describes the third record with his band Miles Long as “funky passionate vulnerability.” (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

“The Cosby Show” alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner says the series’ legacy is “tarnished” by the sexual assault allegatio

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A lawsuit filed by Bobbi Kristina Brown’s conservator accuses Nick Gordon of abuse and says he took money from her without authorization. 

The suit, filed in Fulton County Superior Court on Wednesday by Brown’s court-appointed conservator Bedelia Hargrove, accuses Gordon of assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and transferring money from her account into his own without authorization.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, has been unconscious after being found unresponsive in

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Only a few weeks after former model Beverly Johnson claimed she had been targeted by Bill Cosby as he allegedly sexually assaulted young Hollywood hopefuls, her former manager is breaking his silence and insisting that Johnson made up the entire story.

When Johnson sat down on The View to share her story of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Bill Cosby, it seemed to put the proverbial nail in the comedy legend’s coffin.

Now, it seems, Johnson’s story might not quite add up.

Her former ma

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Camille Olivia Hanks was studying at the University of Maryland when she met Bill Cosby in the early ’60s. He was doing stand-up comedy in Washington when the two were set up on a blind date. They fell in love and she left school to support his burgeoning career in entertainment.

By 1964, the two were married and they would go on to have five children together. In 1997, their son Ennis (who inspired the character Theo Huxtable) was murdered, and a few years later Dr. Camille Cosby did a one-

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In 2004, when Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby for sexual assault, her lawyers asked me to testify. Cosby had drugged and raped me, too, I told them. The lawyers said I could testify anonymously as a Jane Doe, but I ardently rejected that idea. My name is not Jane Doe. My name is Barbara Bowman, and I wanted to tell my story in court. In the end, I didn’t have the opportunity to do that, because Cosby settled the suit for an undisclosed amount of money.

Over the years, I’ve

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In 2004, 13 women came forward to testify when Cosby was sued for assault and battery. (Jeffrey MacMillan for Capital Business)

The man once known as “America’s Dad” is too radioactive for daytime television.

Bill Cosby, who was scheduled to appear as a guest on “The Queen Latifah Show” to promote his new comedy tour, is no longer going to be on the show.

TMZ initially reported producers rescinded the invitation, but updated the story with a statement from the show’s spokesman saying Cosby

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Jameis Winston will sit out of the game against Clemson this week. 

The Heisman Trophy winner stood atop a table and bellowed words that can’t be repeated here. Google them if you must. Winston stood before the Florida State student body, many of whom were more than happy to live tweet the events for those of us not present, and shouted a tired, vulgar internet meme.

For this, he gets a game suspension.

Winston had two jobs this fall: Play football and don’t do anything stu

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