The prosecution presented a string of Bill Cosby accusers Thursday in the fourth day of the comedian's sexual-assault retrial in suburban Philadelphia.
Among them was former model Janice Dickinson, who recounted her alleged rape by Cosby at Lake Tahoe. Another former model, Lise-Lotte Lublin, isexpected to give testimony before the week is out.
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The jury has already heard fromHeidi Thomas, Chelan Lasha and Janice Baker-Kinney. They each shared theirrun-ins with Cosby from the 1980s, all involving the comedian giving them drugs that rendered them either unconscious or unable to move while the comedian molested or raped them.
Dickinson testimony about rape at Tahoe
Taking the stand Thursday, Dickinson alleged that Cosby raped her when she was 27, after giving her a pill he claimed would help her with menstrual cramps.She told jurorsthat she was "rendered motionless" by the pill as Cosby got on top of her in his hotel room in Lake Tahoe, Calif. After waking up the next day, Dickinsonsays she noticed sem*n between her legs.
“I didn’t consent to this. Here was ‘America’s Dad,’ on top of me," she said recalling the 1982 incident. "A married man, father of five kids, on top of me. I was thinking how wrong it was. How very wrong it was.”
Dickinson testified she felt vagin*l pain and, after waking up the next morning, noticed sem*n between her legs. She said Cosby looked at her “like I was crazy” when she confronted him about what had happened.
“I wanted to hit him. I wanted to punch him in the face,” she said.
Cosby's defense attorney, Tom Mesereau, challenged Dickinson on her claims, citing discrepancies between her testimony and her 2002 autobiography,No Lifeguard on Duty, about the encounter with Cosby.
Dickinson rebutted that she "wasn't under oath" when she wroteNo Lifeguard. She added that Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and her publisher to remove details about the assault in the book, and she went along because she needed the money.
“It’s all a fabrication there," she noted. "It was written by ghostwriters. I wanted a paycheck."
Dickinson, 63, is the fourth accuser to testify at Cosby's sexual-assault retrial. She is among the five dozen women who have accused Cosby of rape or molestation since October 2014.
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Janice Baker-Kinney, who was a 24-year-old Reno bartender in 1982, hasaccused Cosby of drugging and raping her then.
On Wednesday, Baker-Kinney testified that she encountered Cosby at a party, where he gave her two pills that made her lose consciousness. She testified she woke up naked in bed with the comedian, believing they'd had sex.
Baker-Kinney saidshe believes Cosby gave her Quaaludes, a now-banned sedative. She says she still blames herself for getting knocked out, telling jurors, "I don't want to have that guilt and shame."
Shereturned to the stand Thursday for cross-examination.
Mesereausuggested Baker-Kinney was motivated to distort the facts of a fun evening when she heard about a possible $100 million windfall from Cosby.
Baker-Kinney was unflappable on the stand Wednesday, freelyadmittingherpast experimentationwith LSD andbattle withalcoholism. She even called outMesereau for rolling his eyes at her, and chided the veteran defense attorney after she said he attempted to twist what she said about being assaulted.
“It still takes me everything within my being to say the words, ‘I was raped,’” she testified.
Also on Wednesday, Heidi Thomas returned to the witness stand after telling jurors late Tuesday that Cosby knocked her out with wine and forced her to perform oral sex in a Reno hotel room in 1984.
Thomas, who was a 24-year-old aspiring actress, said her agent had arranged for Cosby to give her acting tips and that Cosby gave her the wine as they rehearsed a scene in which she was portraying a drunken woman.
On cross-examination, she rejected the defense suggestion that she wanted the spotlight or toprofit from her experiences. She told the jurorsshe wants to "see a serial rapist convicted."
Thomas saidshe came forward with her allegations in early 2015 to support other women who have accused Cosby (60 in total), not for the attention.
Cosby rep: Accusers represent"prosecution by distraction"
As Cosby spokesman's Andrew Wyatt entered the courthouse Thursday, he described Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele's case so far as "prosecution by distraction." He also called the women the "supporting cast" for chief accuser Andrea Constand, who sayshe drugged and molested her at his home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004.Each count ispunishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Judge O'Neill allowed only one other accuser, Kelly Johnson, to testify in Cosby's first trial last year, and her testimony was partially undermined by her imprecision about when her alleged encounter with Cosby happened. She is not testifying at the retrial.
The first trial ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to agree on a verdict following five days of deliberations.
Five of the six accusers offering testimony at either Cosby's first or second trialare represented by women's rights attorney Gloria Allred or her daughter Lisa Bloom.
Contributing: The Associated Press
