Viral Swing: Bill Cosby paid $3.4m to silence woman he had sexually assaulted, prosecutor says

Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Bill Cosby paid $3.4m to silence woman he had sexually assaulted, prosecutor says

Bill Cosby began his retrial on Monday at Montgomery county court of common pleas in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Bill Cosby paid $3.4m to buy the silence of a young woman he had previously drugged and then sexually assaulted, a prosecutor alleged on Monday as the comedian’s retrial got under way in Pennsylvania in the first major courtroom drama of the #MeToo era. Kevin Steele, the district attorney for Cosby’s home county of Montgomery, revealed a secret that has remained hidden for the past 12 years – the amount of money that the TV star formerly known as “America’s Dad” was prepared to pay to keep his detractor quiet.