Photos: Bill Cosby through the years
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday. A look at Cosby's life and career, in photos.
FILE – In this Sept. 12, 1965, file photo, Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, arrive at the 17th Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this May 22, 1966 file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby poses with his award for best actor in a TV series for his role in "I Spy," at the Emmy Awards in New York. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - This August 1972 file photo shows comedian Bill Cosby from the Saturday morning cartoon show "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." Cosby created and starred in the cartoon series based loosely on his Philadelphia childhood that promoted good behavior and morality. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this 1974 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby prepares to hit the ball as Australian World Cup team captain and playing partner Fred Stolle watches during an exhibition tennis match in Hartford, Conn. Cosby and Stolle teamed against actor Robert Culp and American World Cup team member Arthur Ashe. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
FILE - In this April 1, 1982 file photo, John H. Johnson, publisher of Jet and Ebony magazines, left, and actor Bill Cosby, center, join the Rev. Jesse Jackson at a benefit reception for Operation PUSH in Chicago, Ill. (AP Photo)
FILE – In this July 22, 1996, file photo, Bill Cosby speaks to members of the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997 file photo, Bill Cosby is led from his New York home by his wife, Camille. Cosby's only son, Ennis William Cosby, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire in the Santa Monica Mountains in California. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
FILE - In this June 18, 1997 file photo, entertainer Bill Cosby, right, appears on Court TV's "Cochran and Company" program hosted by attorney Johnny Cochran in New York. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
FILE – In this April 29, 1999, file photo, Bill Cosby, marking 25 years as pitchman for Jell-O desserts and a donation of children's books from his "Little Bill" series, talks with schoolchildren at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera, File)
FILE - In this April 14, 2000 file photo, co-hosts Oprah Winfrey and Bill Cosby appear during the Essence Awards 2000 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2002 file photo, members of Bill Cosby's television family, the Huxtables, gather in NBC's Today show studio for an interview with co-host Katie Couric, in New York. From left are Sabrina Le Beauf, Tempest Bledsoe, Cosby, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Raven Symone and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
FILE - In this July 9, 2002 file photo, President Bush, right, stands with comedian Bill Cosby during the announcement of Cosby's Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bush awarded Cosby the nation's highest civilian honor, saying he had "used the power of laughter to heal wounds and to build bridges." (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2004 file photo, Bill Cosby addresses a gathering at the 34th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
FILE - In this April 24, 2008 file photo, Bill Cosby speaks at a forum for at-risk youths, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/W.A. Haarewood, file)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, Bill Cosby, perennial host of the Playboy Jazz Festival, right, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner appear at a party to announce the lineup of the upcoming festival at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
FILE - This Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby, left, and his wife Camille appear at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts before he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - In this May 12, 2011 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby appears at Temple University's commencement in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2013 file photo, actor-comedian Bill Cosby poses for a portrait in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby performs at the Stand Up for Heroes event in New York. (John Minchillo/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this April 25, 2014 file photo, entertainer Bill Cosby meets with young athletes during the Penn Relays athletics meet in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo, Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, laugh as they tell a story about collecting a piece in the exhibit "Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue," at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - This booking photograph released by the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 shows Bill Cosby, who was arrested and charged, in district court in Elkins Park, Pa., with aggravated indecent assault. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004. (Montgomery County Office of the District Attorney via AP)
FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby salutes the crowd as he begins a performance in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2015 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives at court to face a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault in Elkins Park, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - In this Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, arrives for jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5, 2017 in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Bill Cosby, center, leaves the the Montgomery County Courthouse after being convicted of drugging and molesting a woman, Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, Pa., following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Rashad has previously defended Cosby, including in a 2015 ABC News interview where she said, “This is not about the women. This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of legacy.”
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The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict Tuesday in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000.
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A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 has sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992.
More than a dozen women have sued Bill Cosby since his June 2021 release from prison. That includes nine new cases brought Wednesday in Nevada, by accusers who successfully lobbied to eliminate the state's statute of limitations for adult survivors.