Bill Cosby Faces A New Lawsuit After 2005 Deposition Documents Go Public

After the release of court documents from a 2005 deposition, wherein he admitted to obtaining drugs with the intention of giving them to women he desired to become intimate with, Bill Cosby is faced with another legal motion. The plaintiff this time is none other than the same woman at the centre of the 2005 lawsuit.

Entertainment Weekly was able to obtain the documents filed Wednesday, which stated that Andrea Constand is suing Cosby and his legal team for violating the confidentiality agreement they engaged in back in 2006. According to the documents, Constand also wants to be relieved from the agreement that “prohibit her from making fair response to the numerous and inaccurate statements and innuendos,” made by the camp of the legendary comedian. Aside from this request, Constand also wants all the transcripts included on the 2005 deposition to made public so that people can make their own judgements as to whether the statements and questions made on the deposition were taken out of context.

Prior to the unveiling of the said documents by the Associated Press, Cosby’s camp had fight tooth and nail to keep these under wraps, claiming that this would ruin Cosby because he is not a public figure. According to Cosby’s lawyer, the contents of the deposition would just prejudice the jury pool in Massachusetts. Moreover, the release of the documents would just be “terribly embarrassing” for the comedian actor because it would also publicize details of Cosby’s marriage, sex life, as well as prescription drug use. The lawyer added that there is no reason to show documents that contained Cosby’s responses made just because he was asked while under oath from the accuser’s lawyer.

The Associated Press had released its own take on why the documents should be released. "The defendant is the only party who objects to unsealing the record," stated the wire service. "However, now that the circumstances that he relied upon to gain preliminary sealing in this matter are nothing more than historic references, bypassed by recent public events, the files at issue should be unsealed."

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