Last night at 9pm EST, NY Magazine dropped an epic bombshell of an article. This is an astounding piece of investigative journalism. The magazine took six months to methodically research the story, which arrives a few weeks after Cosby’s own deposition revealed how he routinely drugged and sexually assaulted women. If anything can make Camille Cosby see the truth, this article will do the trick. I’m not optimistic about Camille ever changing her opinion, but this article is huge and will carry long-lasting effects.

NYMag interviewed 35 of Cosby’s victims, including model Beverly Johnson (who wrote her own powerful essay last year). All of these women allowed themselves to be photographed and described Cosby’s predatory behavior. They were interviewed separately, yet their stories are startlingly similar and speak of Cosby rendering them powerless with pills. The full piece is incredibly graphic but deserves to be read in full. A few excerpts:

“At 17, my agent introduced me to Bill Cosby, who was going to mentor me and take me to the next level of my career. Over the course of the next year, I was drugged half the time when I was with him and would come out of a delusional experience going, ‘Whoa, what was that?’ He would say, ‘Well, I needed to undress you and wash your clothes because you got drunk and made a fool of yourself.’ Do you remember the Jaycee Dugard story? She pretty much could have climbed over the fence any time she wanted to but was just so broken down and couldn’t think straight. I felt like a prisoner; I felt I was kidnapped and hiding in plain sight. I could have walked down any street of Manhattan at any time and said, ‘I’m being raped and drugged by Bill Cosby,’ but who the hell would have believed me? Nobody, nobody. I was invited down to Atlantic City to see his show and had a very confusing night where I was completely drugged and my luggage was missing. When I called the concierge to find out where my luggage was, Cosby went ballistic. He slammed the phone down and said, ‘What the hell are you doing, letting the whole hotel know I have a 19-year-old girl in my hotel suite?’ The next morning, he summoned me down to his room and yelled at me that I needed to have discretion. He threw me down on the bed and he put his forearm under my throat. He straddled me, and he took his belt buckle off. The clanking of the belt buckle, I’ll never forget.” – Barbara Bowman

“People often these days say, ‘Well, why didn’t you take it to the police?’ Andrea Constand went to the police in 2005 – how’d it work out for her? Not at all. In 2005, Bill Cosby still had control of the media. In 2015, we have social media. We can’t be disappeared. It’s online and can never go away.” – Tamara Green

[from NYMag]

I included the second excerpt because it illustrates how Cosby can no longer manipulate the media. He tried twice in the past six months, but the jig is up for Bill Cosby.

Some additional Cosby news:

* Cosby reportedly obtained his massive stash of Quaaludes from a gynecologist. Why was Cosby visiting this type of doctor? The Washington Post did some digging and found out how LeRoy Amar was known as “a Hollywood prescriber.” Cosby says he requested the pills for “a bad back,” of course.

* Spelman College — a prestigious, historically black women’s college — has cut all ties with Cosby. They discontinued their William and Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Endowed Professorship, which was funded by a $20 million donation from Bill. They’re going to return the unused portion of money to Cosby. He can use it to pay his lawyers.

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