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DEPOSITION:

COSBY PAID WOMEN TO KEEP AFFAIRS SECRET

BILL Cosby, in sworn testimony a decade ago, said he had paid Although Cosby painted himself as sensitive to Constand, he told
her attorney, “I think Andrea is a liar and I know she’s a liar because
women after sex to keep the affairs from his wife, suggested he was I was there,” when he was asked how he felt about Constand crying
skilled at understanding nonverbal cues for sexual consent and during her deposition in the case.
called one of his accusers a liar. Bruce Castor, the suburban Pennsylvania prosecutor who declined
to bring charges in the Constand case a decade ago, told the
The New York Times reported the revelations Saturday after ob- AP earlier this month that if he is
taining a copy of a transcript from a deposition Cosby gave in a elected again he would review
lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee who alleges the unsealed court docu-
he drugged and molested her. ments to see if Cosby
According to excerpts from the deposition released a month ago, committed perjury.
and first obtained by The Associated Press, Cosby admitted he pro- The Associated Press
cured quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he generally does not
wanted to have sex with. name people who say
they have been sexually
The Times, citing the transcript, reports that Cosby told lawyers assaulted unless they
for Andrea Constand, who worked at Temple in Philadelphia and agree to have their
brought the suit, that he was a “pretty decent reader of people and names published, as
their emotions in these romantic sexual things.” Constand has done.
He said he offered to pay for Constand’s education and paid another
woman whom he had met in 1976. He said he funneled money to Monday, July 20 2015 - ARUBA TRAVELLER
one of the women he had sex with through his agent so his wife
wouldn’t find out.

Cosby’s publicist, David Brokaw, did not immediately return a mes-
sage seeking comment late Saturday.
Although Constand never sought any money from Cosby, the come-
dian said he figured his wife would have known he was helping her
with furthering her education but said, “My wife would not know it
was because Andrea and I had had sex,” according to the newspaper.
Constand’s case was settled on confidential terms.
Cosby has denied accusations made by dozens of women who claim
he sexually assaulted them. He has never been charged with a crime,
but the accusations have shattered Cosby’s good-guy, fatherly image.

At points during the deposition, Cosby also described his sexual
encounters with the women in detail.
The deposition also paints Cosby as emotionally charming, but
he also spoke about disregarding relationships to pursue other
women.

He suggested he was skilled at understanding women
and nonverbal cues signaling sexual consent.
Cosby, who has been married since 1964, said
he sparked a relationship with Constand in the
early 2000s and invited her to his house and
had conversations about her family and plans
for future education.

The relationship between the two continued
for several years until, Constand says, Cosby
drugged and molested her in his Pennsylvania
home.
Cosby said during the deposition that Constand
was “a liar.”

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