Bill Cosby Hit With New Lawsuit

Bill Cosby is facing a new lawsuit from a singer claiming he drugged and raped her in the late 1980s.

Morganne Picard accused Bill of inviting her to the set of 'The Cosby Show' in 1987, and alleged he "insisted and encouraged" her to drink beverages that made her feel "extremely intoxicated" on "multiple occasion" up until 1990.

She also alleged she was blacked out and raped after she drank a beverage from him at his home, later waking up "naked with soreness in her vagina" in a hotel room.

"Upon information and belief, when Ms. Picard was physically incapacitated by the unknown intoxicant, Cosby undressed and raped her, without her consent and when she did not have the capacity to consent," claimed the lawsuit.

Defendants were named as Kaufman Astoria Studios, Astoria Studios LP II, the Carsey-Warner Company and NBCUniversal as they did "not investigate, reprimand, supervise nor in any way try to stop Cosby from sexually abusing, assaulting and/or battering women."

Morganne is suing Cosby for battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She's suing the other defendants for negligent hiring, and negligence.

“It is disappointing to see that these alleged distractors are able to monetize false allegations against Mr. Cosby,” a rep for Cosby said.

“Mr. Cosby continues to invoke his Constitutional Rights by saying, ‘Not Guilty’ and vehemently denying all of these alleged allegations waged against him.”

The Adult Survivors Act allows adult victims a window of a year to sue alleged abusers over older sexual crime regardless of the Statute of Limitations.

In June, former Playmate model Victoria Valentino filed a lawsuit against Cosby alleging he drugged and raped her after they ran into each other in 1969. At the time, the lawsuit was described as an attack on "the Black men in America."

Six months prior, five women filed a 34-page complaint against him after previously accusing him of sexual assault. Eden Tirl, Jewel Gittens, Jennifer Thompson, Lili Bernard and Cindra Ladd accused him of "sexual assault, sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress."

The complaint was described as "a frivolous civil lawsuit."

Cosby has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, and was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in 2018. He was released in 2021, after his conviction was vacated.