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USA Today
Jayme Deerwester,Maria Puente and Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY
The prosecution presented a string of Bill Cosby accusers on the witness stand 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, and another former model, Lise-Lotte Lublin, who took the stand late Thursday.
The jury has already heard from Heidi Thomas, Chelan Lasha and Janice Baker-Kinney. They each shared their run-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.
Here are the latest developments from the courtroom:
Fifth Cosby accuser takes the stand
The fifth and final “other” accuser to testify at Cosby’s retrial said she trusted him because he was “America’s Dad.”
Lise-Lotte Lublin was a 23-year-old model and aspiring actress invited to Cosby’s Las Vegas hotel suite to practice acting improvisation. When he prodded her to drink two shots to relax, she complied.
She told the jury that Cosby had her sit between his knees and he started stroking her hair. She said she lost consciousness and doesn’t remember anything else about that night in 1989 until she woke up two days later. She believes she was sexually assaulted, she testified.
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