PENNSYLVANIA
New York Times
By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JON HURDLE
APRIL 18, 2018
The editor and publisher Judith Regan at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., where she testified on Wednesday at the Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial. Credit Pool photo by Corey Perrine
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Judith Regan, the publisher of a 2002 memoir by one of Bill Cosby’s accusers, testified on Wednesday that the author had told her about being drugged and raped by Mr. Cosby, but her company’s legal department would not allow publication of the accusation because it was not corroborated.
The author, Janice Dickinson, had told the jury last week that her efforts to publish the accusation had been blocked by the publisher of her book, “No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel.”
Ms. Regan confirmed that account on the eighth day of Mr. Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges.
“She wanted the rape story in the book, and she was insistent and angry that we wouldn’t include it,” she said.
Pressed by Mr. Cosby’s lead attorney, Thomas A. Mesereau, on why she had not included the story in the book, Ms. Regan said, referring to the company’s legal department: “They objected to our including a story like this without a witness.”
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