Bill Cosby Ordered to Pay $60 Million For 1972 Sexual Assault
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A California jury found 88 year old Billy Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman back in 1972. Donna Motsinger was awarded $19.25 million for her pain and suffering and another $40 million in punitive damages. Cosby plans to appeal the verdict and continues to deny ever assaulting anyone. Even though his only criminal conviction was overturned for procedural reasons, Cosby is still facing dozens of other civil lawsuits from women who have made similar accusations against the once beloved comedian.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.9 | It is Tuesday, March 24th, and a California jury has found Bill Cosby liable for a sexual assault that happened |
| 0:27.4 | before Amy Robach and I were even born. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and |
| 0:34.2 | T.J. 50 plus years ago we're talking about and a jury just said, Mr. Cosby, |
| 0:43.8 | you need to pay a huge amount to this woman for something that happened in 1972. Do I have that |
| 0:51.3 | right? Yes, 1972. It happened on one occasion and a jury took more than two days to deliberate, but they have awarded this woman $59.25 million for her pain and suffering and for punitive damages in this case. It was the largest verdict so far. |
| 1:12.8 | So far, we say, and to be quite honest with you, it's hard to keep up. Every time I see a Harvey Weinstein update about a trial day, I'm like, wow, he's still dealing with legal stuff. |
| 1:23.3 | I'd be honest with you, I didn't realize Bill Cosby is still dealing with lawsuits that are flying all over the place. |
| 1:28.1 | He certainly is. And this was a doozy of a lawsuit. And look, she testified, took the stand, |
| 1:35.5 | described what happened to her, she said on that day in 1972. Three other women testified of having |
| 1:43.1 | similar encounters with Bill Cosby. He did not take the stand. |
| 1:47.8 | And it's interesting to hear what he said in deposition. It wasn't, he's denied, by the way, |
| 1:53.2 | ever assaulting a woman. He says that any sex he had in even any quailudes he gave women, |
| 1:59.6 | which he's admitted to doing, have all been |
| 2:02.0 | consensual that they agreed to take them. So he's admitted to having extramarital affairs and being a |
| 2:06.9 | womanizer and even drugging women, but he said it was all consensual. And again, Bill Cosby, |
| 2:12.5 | at this point, has been out of prison for several years. He had a 10 year, what, three to 10 years is what it was |
| 2:18.9 | supposed to be. He served three because a, well, Supreme Court threw out the criminal conviction. |
| 2:24.3 | So everything that's going on with Bill Cosby, all the accusations and things, one |
| 2:28.9 | conviction and that one was thrown out. So from a criminal standpoint, he's dealt with that part of these cases. |
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