Former supermodel Janice Dickinson, who’s described herself as America’s “first supermodel” and who has served as a judge on television’s “America’s Next Top Model,” said in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that she was raped by Bill Cosby, too.
Ms. Dickinson said Mr. Cosby summoned her in 1982 to Lake Tahoe to talk about a possible role on “The Cosby Show” and to discuss her singing career, The New York Post reported. But the meeting took a turn for the worse after she accepted a glass of wine and pill from Mr. Cosby.
“The next morning, I woke up, and I wasn’t wearing my pajamas,” she told ET. “I remember before I passed out thinking that I had been sexually assaulted. … Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was [Cosby] dropping his robe and getting on top of me. I remember a lot of pain. … I remember waking up with my pajamas off, and there was semen in between my legs.”
She said she wanted to write about the incident in her 2002 memoir, but Mr. Cosby and his team of lawyers talked her out of it.
But now, she says she’s coming forward because “it’s the right thing to do” and because “this is the true story,” she told ET.
Martin Singer, an attorney representing Mr. Cosby, said the “Janice Dickinson story is a complete lie,” the New York Post reported.
Several women have alleged over the years that Mr. Cosby has raped them. But the comedian and his attorneys have denied the claims, though they did settle a sexual suit out of court in 2006.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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