The ever-growing sexual assault scandal surrounding comedian Bill Cosby took another turn on Friday, with two new accusers coming forward, including a woman who claimed that the comedian asked her for phone sex after raping her.
At a press conference in New York, the two women, accompanied by attorney Gloria Allred, told their stories.
One accuser, identified as Dottye, claimed that in 1984 she missed an open call for “The Cosby Show” because she was on vacation, but managed to track down Cosby, sending him her headshot and resume, along with a note asking to be considered for the role.
Dottye claimed that Cosby called her and asked her to audition for him. When she arrived at his New York brownstone, she said, Cosby gave her a drink and “began to spin me around.”
“Once he stopped spinning me I was dizzy and disoriented, and sick,” Dottye said Friday. “Within seconds I began to vomit all over myself and his rug. I felt ashamed.”
Dottye went on to claim that Cosby disrobed her, washed her in the bathroom and apparently gave her a robe to wear. She claims that she then found herself on the second floor of the building, near a half-bathroom with a chest to the left of the door.
“He leaned me against the chest, raised the robe, and raped me,” Dottye said, adding that he then led her to the dining room “and laid me on the floor where he continued his assault.”
Dottye claims that Cosby led her to the front door and closed it behind her, leaving her to drive home to New Jersey by herself.
“Bill Cosby called me the next day, not to see how I was, but for phone sex!” Dottye recalled. “He tried to get me to do it, but I was no longer under the influence of what I thought was only alcohol.”
The second accuser, identified as Donna Barrett, said that she was officiating a track meet at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 when Cosby “grabbed me from behind very firmly and quite purposefully.
“He had his arm on my waist and forcefully pulled me onto his private area saying, ‘Hey, back that thing up here, girl, back it on up!’” Barrett claimed. “I felt his private parts against my backside. I cried out and tried to pull away from his vise-like grip on my waist.”
In the past year, dozens of women have accused Cosby of rape or sexual assault, with many of the women claiming that he drugged them beforehand.
Cosby faces multiple lawsuits as the result of the allegations. His former attorney, Martin Singer — with whom Cosby parted ways this week — has denied the allegations in the past.