Woman Testifies That Bill Cosby Kissed Her When She Was 14

Kimberly Burr testified Friday that she was 14 years previous when Invoice Cosby invited her into his trailer on a movie set in Los Angeles in 1975 and began kissing her.

Ms. Burr was testifying within the civil trial in Los Angeles the place Mr. Cosby has been sued by one other lady, Judy Huth, who has accused Mr. Cosby of sexually assaulting her that very same 12 months, when she was additionally a youngster.

Ms. Burr, who’s now 61, mentioned that she had met Mr. Cosby at a tennis event in Palm Desert that 12 months, the place he had invited her to the set of the movie “Let’s Do It Once more” in Los Angeles with the promise of being an additional. Whereas her mom and different members of her household waited outdoors, she mentioned, he led her into his trailer to assist him repair his bow tie, the place he grabbed each her arms and began kissing her.

“I used to be caught,” Ms. Burr instructed the courtroom. “I used to be struggling, attempting to get away.”

When he let go, she mentioned, she “walked proper out of the trailer down the steps” and didn’t inform her household as a result of she didn’t wish to spoil the day for them.

Throughout cross-examination, Jennifer Bonjean, a lawyer for Mr. Cosby, challenged her account, asking how, after such a traumatic expertise, she may have stored pictures within the household house of the assembly displaying Ms. Burr and her brother with Mr. Cosby. “Did it trouble you that they had been there?” she mentioned.

A spokesman for Mr. Cosby, Andrew Wyatt, dismissed the testimony. “These are simply allegations made as much as help Judy Huth, whose claims will not be factual in any respect,” he mentioned in an interview.

Ms. Huth’s case is the primary civil swimsuit accusing Mr. Cosby of sexual assault to achieve trial. In her lawsuit, Ms. Huth says that she was sexually assaulted by Mr. Cosby on the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, when she was 16, after she and a pal met him in a park the place he was filming “Let’s Do It Once more,” the identical film he was engaged on when he met Ms. Burr.

Days after their assembly, Mr. Cosby invited Ms. Huth and her pal to his tennis membership, Ms. Huth’s attorneys have mentioned, the place Ms. Huth performed a sport the place she needed to drink alcohol each time he gained at billiards, after which they each adopted him of their automotive to the Playboy Mansion. As soon as there, Ms. Huth has mentioned, Mr. Cosby compelled her to carry out a intercourse act on him in a bed room.

Mr. Cosby has denied he sexually assaulted Ms. Huth, or any of the opposite girls who’ve come ahead lately to accuse him of sexual misconduct.

Greater than 50 girls have accused Mr. Cosby of sexually abusing them. This was the primary time Ms. Burr has spoken publicly.

As Ms. Huth’s attorneys have sought to reveal a sample of habits and abuse by Mr. Cosby, they referred to as one other witness, Margie Shapiro, 65, who had already come ahead with accusations in 2015.

Ms. Shapiro testified that she was 19 in 1975 when Mr. Cosby met her on the doughnut store the place she was working and invited her to the set of one other film he was filming in Los Angeles. Later that day, they went to the Playboy Mansion, the place, she mentioned, he drugged and assaulted her. She mentioned that that they had performed pinball collectively within the sport room on the mansion, and that he had provided her a capsule after she misplaced. She mentioned she remembered waking up: “My subsequent reminiscence was foggy, however I used to be in a mattress bare and Invoice Cosby was bare, inside me,” she mentioned.

She mentioned she instructed a pal what had occurred however by no means went to the police. “I felt I went there consensually, I took a capsule and he’s him and I’m me,” she mentioned. “I felt silly as a result of I felt on the time I put myself in that state of affairs.”

Mr. Cosby’s spokesman, Mr. Wyatt, issued an announcement Friday afternoon which mentioned that the accusers had been “discrediting themselves” and questioned their accounts. “Since we stand on the muse of fact and info,” he mentioned within the assertion, “we consider that Mr. Cosby can be vindicated of ALL allegations in an effort to transfer ahead with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

In difficult Ms. Shapiro’s account in courtroom, Mr. Cosby’s authorized workforce questioned whether or not she was working on the doughnut store on the morning she mentioned she met Mr. Cosby, and whether or not she went to the Playboy Mansion. They acknowledged that Ms. Shapiro went to Mr. Cosby’s home, however they insisted that the connection was consensual. Ms. Shapiro mentioned she stood by her account.

Mr. Cosby’s attorneys have famous in courtroom proceedings that Ms. Huth’s recollection of when her encounter befell has modified: Whereas she initially mentioned it occurred in 1974, when she was 15, she extra lately concluded it was in 1975, when she was 16. The legislation in California labeled a 16-year-old as a minor. In disputing Ms. Huth’s account, Mr. Cosby’s attorneys have steered they met years after the time she mentioned they did, when she was now not a minor.

Of their opening remarks, his attorneys sought to discredit Ms. Huth’s account by mentioning that she and the pal who accompanied her to the Playboy Mansion stayed for hours after the alleged encounter with Mr. Cosby, swimming within the out of doors pool and watching a film.

The pal, Donna Samuelson, has testified that Ms. Huth was distraught and needed to go away however Ms. Samuelson persuaded her to remain.

Ms. Huth’s lawsuit, which she filed in 2014, had largely been placed on maintain whereas prosecutors in Pennsylvania pursued Mr. Cosby criminally on prices that he sexually assaulted Andrea Constand.

Mr. Cosby’s 2018 conviction in that case was overturned final 12 months by an appellate courtroom, which dominated {that a} non-prosecution settlement he made with a earlier prosecutor meant that Mr. Cosby shouldn’t have been charged within the case. Mr. Cosby walked free after serving practically three years of a three- to 10-year sentence.

Mr. Cosby, 84, will not be scheduled to testify and has not attended the opening days of testimony, however his deposition testimony is anticipated to be performed in courtroom.

Ms. Huth, 64, who has been in attendance, is intending to offer her account to the jury.