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American entertainer Bill Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations since about 2000. As of October 23, 2015, Cosby has been accused by at least 57 women, including a former Mrs. America, of either rape, drug facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and/or sexual misconduct, with the earliest alleged incidents taking place in the mid-1960s, and he has been called a "serial rapist".〔〔〔〔〔〔 Gloria Allred is representing 28 of the alleged victims. Allred has stated that more alleged victims would be coming forward. Cosby has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crime. Earlier sexual assault allegations against Cosby became more public after an October 2014 accusation by comedian Hannibal Buress went viral, and many additional claims were made after that date. The dates of the alleged incidents span from 1965 to 2008 across 10 U.S. states and one Canadian province,〔 and most of the acts alleged by his accusers fall outside the statutes of limitations for legal proceedings. As of November 2015, eight related lawsuits are active against Cosby, including two that also target Cosby's lawyer and one that also implicates his wife and manager Camille Cosby. In July 2015, the court records from Andrea Constand's 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby were unsealed and released. Cosby's testimony shows a history of casual sex involving use of Quaaludes with a series of young women, including an admission that his use of drugs in the 1970s was illegal.〔 Criminal investigations, responses by the accusers, sexual drugging jokes, legislation, as well as program and policy changes have all been part of the controversy surrounding these allegations. Cosby has declined to publicly discuss the accusations in past interviews.〔 He told ''Florida Today'', "people shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kfor.com/2014/11/23/bill-cosby-defiant-about-answering-sexual-assault-allegations/ )〕 In May 2015 he said, "I have been in this business 52 years and I've never seen anything like this. Reality is a situation and I can't speak."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://theweek.com/speedreads/555357/bill-cosby-addresses-sexual-misconduct-allegations-first-time )〕 In the wake of the allegations, numerous organizations have severed ties with the comedian, and previously awarded honors and titles have been revoked. Reruns of ''The Cosby Show'' have also been pulled from syndication. As of 2014, the talent agency CAA dropped Cosby as a client, leaving the comedian without a Hollywood agent. In an unprecedented condemnation of Cosby's actions and alleged crimes, more than a dozen colleges and universities have rescinded his honorary degrees. == Early allegations and investigation == The earliest known incident involved Kristina Ruehli, who accused Cosby of drugging and assaulting her in his Beverly Hills home in December 1965. Contemporaneously, Ruehli told her boyfriend about the incident, and in the 1980s also told her daughter. However, she did not speak further about it until 2005, when she came forward in the Andrea Constand case as Jane Doe #12. Also among the earliest known accusers was Joan Tarshis, who told her story to freelance reporter John Milward in the early 1980s; however, Milward decided not to publish the story. In 1996, former Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Cosby. The interview was for an expose on the lives of Playboy models, which was never published. In January 2000, then 20-year-old actress Lachele Covington, who had played a waitress on ''Cosby'', alleged she was groped by Cosby, but the district attorney's office decided no crime had been committed. In January 2004, Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, accused Cosby of drugging and fondling her; however, in February 2005, Montgomery County's District Attorney said there would be no charges due to insufficient credible and admissible evidence. Constand then filed a civil claim in March 2005, with 13 women as potential witnesses if the case went to court. Cosby settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in November 2006.〔 After learning that charges were not pursued in the case, California lawyer Tamara Lucier Green, the only publicly named woman in the prior case, came forward with allegations in February 2005 that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s.〔 Cosby's lawyer said that Cosby did not know her and the events did not happen. In a July 2005 ''Philadelphia Daily News'' interview, Beth Ferrier, one of the anonymous "Jane Doe" witnesses in the Constand case, alleged that in 1984 he drugged her coffee and she awoke with her clothes partially removed. Additionally, in 2005, Shawn Upshaw Brown, a woman whom Cosby admitted to having an extra-marital affair with in the 70's, publicly accused Cosby of drugging and raping her the last time the two were together sexually. Brown is the mother of Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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