Bill Cosby, the 89-year-old disgraced actor/comedian and resident of Elkins Park, “has not paid a single dollar” of awarded damages to Donna Motsinger, Fox News reported.
In March, Cosby was ordered by a civil jury in California to pay $19.25 million in damages to Motsinger, who Cosby allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted after escorting her to one of his comedy shows in 1972.
According to Fox News, Motsinger asked a judge to hold Cosby in contempt of court after violating an October order. In Motsinger’s latest request, she claimed Cosby’s “noncompliance is not partial, late, or excusable. It is total. He served no responses by October 19, and he has served none since. He paid nothing by October 19, and he has paid nothing since.”
Last month, Judge Bradley S. Phillips granted Motsinger’s request for a hearing on a motion to compel, and also ordered Cosby to “serve verified, code-compliant responses, without objection, within ten (10) days of this Order.” The judge also ordered that Cosby “shall pay monetary sanctions of $1560 to Plaintiff’s counsel within ten (10) days of this Order.”
Motsinger filed her case against Cosby in 2023.
In June, former Playboy model Victoria Valentino, now 80, filed a lawsuit against Cosby claiming that he drugged and raped her in 1969, Fox News said.
In late 2024, Cosby defaulted on his mortgage for his 5,000-square-foot Manhattan townhouse. He listed the address for sale in 2025 for $29 million.
In February, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Cosby had a “neighborly relationship” with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A 2022 documentary titled “Bill Cosby: Walking Free” depicting the former comedian’s legal battles can be found here.
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