The New York Times has just released a report taken from ten year old court deposition which details Bill Cosby's illicit sexual activities over nearly four decades.
The document is from a questioning session that took place in 2005 at a Philadelphia Hotel. At the time Cosby was being sued by a young female employee of Temple University who alleged that the comedian and entertainer had drugged and molested her. Cosby and his representatives have managed to keep the report private for quite some time, but the Times was able to secure a copy earlier this month.
In the deposition, Cosby said that on one occasion, he reached into Temple employee Andrea Constand's pants and fondled her, taking her silence as a green light.
"I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped," he said.
The Times described Cosby's depiction in the deposition as that of an:
"unapologetic, cavalier playboy, someone who used a combination of fame, apparent concern and powerful sedatives in a calculated pursuit of young women - a profile at odds with the popular image he so long enjoyed, that of father figure and public moralist."
In the report, Cosby candidly detailed his sexual encounters with women, many of them much younger than he was. Some graphic details follow:
One experience he recounted was that of a 19 year old aspiring model who wrote letters to Cosby. The two eventually met and Cosby says she massaged him with lotion. In another, Cosby speaks of casually dumping another model he was involved with so he could court other women.
Cosby boasted of his ability to read women's emotions and nonverbal ticks which indicated their interest in him:
"I think I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them," he said in the report.
The documents do not implicate Cosby in any criminal activity, but are the latest blow to his already tarnished reputation.
