Cosby, Bill

1. A twentieth-century American comedian, actor, and producer. He is known for his stand-up routines, including “Fat Albert,” which later became an animated cartoon, and for his groundbreaking television series I Spy and The Cosby Show.

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There had been some stories before: Bill Cosby, Bill O'Reilly, but this really opened up the floodgates.

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These days, a remarkable number of libel suits, including ones against Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, Roy S. Moore and Mr. Trump, have been filed by women who say they were defamed by men who denied their accusations of sexual misconduct.

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Mr. Clinton’s name was notably missing when the feminist publication Jezebel cited “Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, R. Kelly, Roger Ailes, and Donald Trump” as “not the only men who have allegedly abused women from positions of great power.”

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Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes: an awful sense of deja vu sets in.

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Perhaps it’s in young men in power learning from the fall of Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, and now Harvey Weinstein – and myriad Silicon Valley executives and more than a handful of academics – that women have voices and, sometimes, people who listen believe them, and the era of impunity might be fading from view.

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