Woman whom Bill Cosby admitted drugging: ‘It’s not over yet’
J Pat Carter/AP‘There’s more to come. It’s not over yet,’ says Therese Serignese, 57, of the ongoing rape allegations against Bill Cosby.
The woman who Bill Cosby acknowledged drugging and having sex with in the 1970s said she feels vindicated by the admission, while more bombshell revelations about the bolt from the blue life of “America’s Dad” might be on the way.
In a 2005 deposition unsealed earlier this week, the philandering funnyman admitted under oath that he had sexual relations with Therese Serignese in Las Vegas in 1976.
“I give her Quaaludes. Then we have sex,” Cosby testified.
Serignese, now a 57-year-ancient mother of three, agreed on Wednesday that the admissions were a vindication, but called them “distressing as well.”
Matt Rourke/APIn a 2005 deposition unsealed earlier this week, Cosby admitted under oath that he drugged Serignese and had sex with her in Las Vegas in 1976 when she was 19. ‘I give her Quaaludes. Then we have sex,’ Cosby testified.
“There’s the other side as well,” she told the Day after day News, declining to elaborate because of her pending defamation case against the “Cosby Show” star.
“There’s more to come. It’s not over yet,” she said.
The new disclosures came from deposition excerpts in a now-settled civil suit against the sitcom star by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand that were unsealed by a judge Monday.
Now Constand has filed papers asking that the confidential agreement and Cosby’s entire deposition — where he was presumably questioned under oath about the then-13 women who claimed he’d drugged and taken benefit of them — to be made public.
Constand’s lawyers filed papers in Philadelphia Federal Court on Wednesday saying she should also be allowed to speak about the case because of the 77-year-ancient’s “continual violations” of their 2006 confidentiality covenant.
She noted one statement from Cosby’s camp in November referring to “discredited” accusations, and another where Cosby himself referred to the allegations by numerous women against him as “innuendos.”
J Pat Carter/APSerignese and two other Cosby accusers are suing him in Federal Court in Massachusetts because of his lawyer’s statements denying their claims.
Constand’s filing clarification that two of the women who’ve come forward since November, including Serignese, were “Jane Doe” witnesses in her case.
Constand’s filing says she’s had enough, and clarification that since November, “approximately 49 women have come forward to publicly allege sexual misdemeanors perpetrated upon them by Cosby.”
“It is believed … the release of these documents will help other women who have been victimized,” her filing says.
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the deposition, Cosby painted his run into with Serignese as consensual. She has said he pressured her to pop the pills and then raped her in a bathroom.
A rep for Cosby did not restore a call for note.
Serignese and two other Cosby accusers are suing him in Federal Court in Massachusetts because of his lawyer’s statements denying their claims — including that they had sex at all.
There was more fallout from the disclosures Wednesday as well, with Deadline.com reporting Cosby was peacefully dropped by talent outfit CAA late last year and a sexual-assault prevention group calling on Head Obama to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom Cosby was awarded by George W. Bush in 2002.
White Household press secretary Josh Earnest said, “I don’t know whether or not it’s legally possible to do so.”
With Dan Friedman
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