As Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Cosby starred in a top-rated network sitcom about a loving, successful black couple and their wholesome children. “The Cosby Show” shifted the paradigm for millions of viewers for what a black family could look like. And it made Cosby an idol to many African-Americans in an era long before the country w
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A Pennsylvania judge on Saturday declared Bill Cosby's sexual assault case end in a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked on all three counts. Still, it doesn't mean Cosby is free.
The district attorney is planning to retry the comic on charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand more than a decade ago.
Despite a storied career spanning four decades -- from stand-up comedy to the small screen to blockbuster films -- the trial may have left Cosby's legacy of laughs irreparab
Bill Cosby was a predator or a lover. A kindly mentor or a callous manipulator.
After all the emotional testimony, the bellowing attorneys and the reams of evidence, it was left to the 12 jurors who disappeared behind a courtroom door in this Philadelphia suburb late Monday to sort out those competing images of the 79-year-old comedian.
The sequestered jury — seven men and five women from the Pittsburgh area — betrayed little about their leanings during six days of testimony that drew to an e
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.
The women all accuse Cosby of dru
(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
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
“The Cosby Show” alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner says the series’ legacy is “tarnished” by the sexual assault allegatio
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
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-
Video has been released that shows entertainer Bill Cosby asking a news organization not to release a portion of his conversation with a reporter in which he asks that questions about sex abuse allegations be removed.
In a Nov. 6 interview with the Associated Press, Cosby tells a reporter that he is not going to answer questions having to do with public allegations of sex abuse made
In the future, what will echo most when we hear Bill Cosby’s name?
Will he forever be known as that beloved figure who starred in a groundbreaking family sitcom, was a voice of moral authority on black culture and education and made audiences laugh for decades with his stand-up comedy?
Or is Cosby risking a serious tarnishing of that image right now as allegations of rape continue to swirl around him?
On Sunday, the second woman in a 10-day span, publicist Joan Tarshis, came forward to tell a
In the future, what will echo most when we hear Bill Cosby’s name?
Will he forever be known as that beloved figure who starred in a groundbreaking family sitcom, was a voice of moral authority on black culture and education and made audiences laugh for decades with his stand-up comedy?
Or is Cosby risking a serious tarnishing of that image right now as allegations of rape continue to swirl around him?
On Sunday, the second woman in a 10-day span, publicist Joan Tarshis, came forward to tell a
In the future, what will echo most when we hear Bill Cosby’s name?
Will he forever be known as that beloved figure who starred in a groundbreaking family sitcom, was a voice of moral authority on black culture and education and made audiences laugh for decades with his stand-up comedy?
Or is Cosby risking a serious tarnishing of that image right now as allegations of rape continue to swirl around him?
On Sunday, the second woman in a 10-day span, publicist Joan Tarshis, came forward to tell a
In the future, what will echo most when we hear Bill Cosby’s name?
Will he forever be known as that beloved figure who starred in a groundbreaking family sitcom, was a voice of moral authority on black culture and education and made audiences laugh for decades with his stand-up comedy?
Or is Cosby risking a serious tarnishing of that image right now as allegations of rape continue to swirl around him?
On Sunday, the second woman in a 10-day span, publicist Joan Tarshis, came forward to tell a
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
Bill Cosby could be returning to the NBC network with a new comedy as soon as next summer.
The series, described as a “classic, extended-family sitcom” with Cosby as the patriarch, is currently in the writing stage, NBC executives said at Sunday’s session of the summer TV critics’ tour. It was first announced in January.
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