2026年3月23日 / 美国东部时间下午6:14 / 美联社
加利福尼亚州的一个民事陪审团周一裁定，比尔·考斯比（Bill Cosby）对1972年下药并性侵一名女性负有责任，并判给她1925万美元的赔偿金。
在圣塔莫尼卡进行了近两周的审判后，陪审员裁定88岁的考斯比对唐娜·莫辛格（Donna Motsinger）实施了性侵犯和性虐待。
考斯比的律师詹妮弗·邦jean在电子邮件中表示，他们对此判决感到失望，并完全打算对该裁决提出上诉。
这一判决距离考斯比从宾夕法尼亚州监狱获释近五年，当时该州最高法院基于类似指控撤销了他的刑事定罪。
莫辛格曾是旧金山附近索萨利托一家餐厅的服务员，她在2023年提起的诉讼中称，考斯比邀请她参加他在附近圣卡洛斯一家剧院举办的单口喜剧表演。当时两人都30多岁。她说，考斯比给了她葡萄酒和两片她以为是阿司匹林的药片，然后在两名男子将她抬进一辆豪华轿车时，她开始意识模糊。
诉讼文件中称：“她在自己的家里醒来，身上除了内衣外什么都没穿——没有上衣、没有胸罩、也没有裤子。她知道自己遭到了比尔·考斯比的下药和强奸。”
在法庭文件中，考斯比的律师辩称，这些指控几乎完全基于猜测和假设，并表示莫辛格“自由承认她不知道发生了什么”。
陪审员判给莫辛格1750万美元的过去损失赔偿和175万美元的未来损失赔偿，包括“精神痛苦、生活乐趣丧失、不便、悲伤、焦虑、羞辱和情绪困扰”。他们的审议时间略超过一天。
在周一开始的惩罚性赔偿阶段，他们还可能判给更多金额。
考斯比在审判中没有作证，证人包括安德里亚·康斯坦德（Andrea Constand），她是天普大学的体育管理员，2018年考斯比因类似指控在宾夕法尼亚州刑事法庭被定罪。州最高法院撤销了该判决，考斯比在服完三至十年刑期的近三年后获释。
莫辛格在2005年康斯坦德提起的诉讼中首次匿名提出了这些指控。
美联社通常不会公开提及声称遭受性虐待的人的姓名，除非他们像康斯坦德和莫辛格一样公开站出来并同意被点名。
2022年，圣塔莫尼卡的一个陪审团判给一名女性50万美元，该女性称1975年她还是青少年时在花花公子庄园遭到考斯比的性侵。
莫辛格的诉讼呼应了至少60名女性对考斯比提出的强奸、性侵犯和性骚扰指控，而考斯比均予以否认。
这位曾被广泛称为“美国爸爸”的前单口喜剧和电视巨星，成为#MeToo时代首位被审判并定罪的名人，但其定罪在上诉法院发现他在相信自己免受起诉的情况下提供了罪证证词后被永久撤销。
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/video/bill-cosby-found-liable-in-1972-sexual-assault-owes-19m-in-damages/
Bill Cosby found liable in 1972 sexual assault, must pay over $19 million in damages
March 23, 2026 / 6:14 PM EDT / AP
A civil jury in California found Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $19.25 million.
After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found the 88-year-old Cosby liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger.
Cosby’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said in an email that they are disappointed and fully intend to appeal the verdict.
The decision came nearly five years after Cosby was freed from prison in Pennsylvania when the state Supreme Court threw out a criminal conviction based on similar allegations.
Motsinger had been a server at a restaurant in Sausalito near San Francisco who said in her lawsuit, filed in 2023, that Cosby had invited her to his stand-up comedy show at a theater in nearby San Carlos. Both were in their 30s at the time. She said Cosby gave her wine and two pills that she believed were aspirin, and that she was going in and out of consciousness as two men put her in a limousine.
“She woke up in her house with all her clothes off, except her underwear on – no top, no bra, and no pants,” the lawsuit said. “She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.”
In court filings, Cosby’s lawyers argued that the allegations rested almost entirely on speculation and assumption, saying Motsinger “freely admits that she has no idea what happened.”
Jurors awarded Motsinger $17.5 million in past damages and $1.75 million for future damages, including “mental suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, inconvenience, grief, anxiety, humiliation, and emotional distress.” They deliberated for just over a day.
They can award even more in a punitive damages phase of the trial that starts later Monday.
Cosby did not testify at the trial, whose witnesses included Andrea Constand, the Temple University sports administrator he was convicted of sexually assaulting in a Pennsylvania criminal court in 2018. The state’s Supreme Court threw out the verdict and Cosby was freed from prison after serving nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence.
Motsinger first made her allegations anonymously in a 2005 lawsuit filed by Constand.
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly and consent to be named, as Constand and Motsinger have.
In 2022, a jury in Santa Monica awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was a teenager in 1975.
Motsinger’s lawsuit echoed allegations of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment made by at least 60 women against Cosby, all of which he has denied.
The former stand-up comedy and television superstar once widely known as “America’s Dad” became the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era before his conviction was permanently thrown out when an appeals court found he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition only after believing he had immunity from prosecution.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/video/bill-cosby-found-liable-in-1972-sexual-assault-owes-19m-in-damages/
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