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A timeline of Bill Cosby's sexual assault allegations, charges

A timeline of sexual assault allegations and criminal charges against Bill Cosby.

Jan. 13, 2005:

Andrea Constand files a report with police in her native Ontario, Canada. She alleges Cosby assaulted her a year earlier at his mansion in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, while she was a Temple women’s basketball administrator.

Feb. 10, 2005:

Tamara Green says Constand's accusation compels her to go public about an encounter with Cosby in the 1970s when she says he drugged and groped her.

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June 23, 2005:

Beth Ferrier accuses Cosby of drugging her in 1984.

November 2014:

Jewel Allison says Cosby sexually assaulted her in the late 1980s.

Nov. 1, 2006:

Barbara Bowman says Cosby drugged and assaulted several times in 1985.

Nov. 16, 2014:

Joan Tarshis says Cosby drugged and raped her on more than one occasion in 1969.

Nov. 18, 2014:

Actress Janice Dickinson accuses Cosby of drugging and raping her in 1982.

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Nov. 20, 2014:

Carla Ferrigno accuses Cosby of attempting to assault her in 1967, Therese Serignese says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1976 and Louisa Moritz claims he sexually assaulted her in 1971.

Nov. 21, 2014:

Kristina Ruehli accuses Cosby of raping her in 1965.

Nov. 22, 2014:

Victoria Valentino accuses Cosby of raping her in 1969 and Angela Leslie says he sexually assaulted her in 1992.

December 2014:

Model and actress Beverly Johnson says Cosby drugged and assaulted her in the mid-1980s.

Dec. 2, 2014:

Judy Huth files a lawsuit saying Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1974, when she was 15 years old. Prosecutors decline to press criminal charges.

Dec. 3, 2014:

Chelan Lasha accuses Cosby of drugging her and fondling her in 1986.

Dec. 5, 2014:

PJ Masten says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1979.

Jan. 7, 2015:

Rebecca Lynn Neal accuses Cosby of drugging and raping her and a woman named Kacey says Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 1996.

Jan. 8, 2015:

Kathy McKee says Cosby raped her in the 1970s and Linda Kirkpatrick accuses him of drugging and groping her in 1981.

Jan. 14, 2015:

Chloe Goins accuses Cosby of drugging and sexually abusing her in August 2008.

July 2015:

Cosby admits in 2005 that he got Quaaludes — a now-banned sedative — with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave them to at least one woman and “other people,” according to excerpts of a civil deposition obtained by The Associated Press. Further transcripts from the deposition reveal details of womanizing, which he describes as consensual encounters, and attempts to hide affairs from his wife.

January 26, 2015:

Cindra Ladd accuses Cosby of drugging and raping her in 1969.

Feb. 12, 2015:

Lise-Lotte Lublin and Linda Brown accuse Cosby of drugging them. Brown says he raped her.

March 22, 2015:

Heidi Thomas says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1984.

March 23, 2015:

Marcella Tate says Cosby drugged her in 1975.

March 27, 2015:

Sunni Wells accuses Cosby of raping her in the mid-1960s and Margie Shapiro says he drugged and raped her in 1975.

April 23, 2015:

Autumn Burns accuses Cosby of drugging and raping her around 1970 and Janice Baker Kinney says he drugged and raped her in 1982.

May 2015:

Dickinson files a defamation suit against Cosby after his lawyers accuse her of fabricating rape allegations.

May 1, 2015:

Sammie Mays says Cosby drugged and molested her in 1987 and Lili Bernard says he drugged and raped her in the late 1980s.

Aug. 12, 2015:

Colleen Hughes says Cosby drugged and raped her in the 1970s, Linda Ridgeway accuses him of sexually assaulting her and Eden Tirl says he assaulted her in 1989.

Oct. 15, 2015: 

Renita Hill of Baldwin Borough, who appeared on an educational children's TV show as a teenager with Cosby, is the fourth women to sue him, saying he defamed her after she gave an interview claiming he sexually abused her in the 1980s. Hill says Cosby helped pay for her college tuition and housing until she broke off contact with him in 1987 after years of abuse.

Nov. 26, 2015:

Sarita Butterfield says Cosby groped her in 1977.

Dec. 30, 2015:

Patricia Steuer says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1978 and 1980. Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting Constand 12 years earlier.

May 24, 2016:

District Judge Elizabeth McHugh rules that prosecutors have sufficient evidence to bring Cosby to trial in the lone criminal case brought against him out of the barrage of allegations that he drugged and molested dozens of women.

Sept. 23, 2016:

Joyce Emmons accuses Cosby of drugging her in 1979 or 1980.

Dec. 13, 2016:

Prosecutors hope to call 13 other sexual assault accusers to show that the comedian had a pattern of drugging and molesting women. The defense will attack their credibility and relevance as they try to keep them off the witness stand at the trial, scheduled for the spring.

Feb. 24, 2017:

In a major break for Bill Cosby, a judge ruled that just one of the comedian's multitude of other accusers can testify at his trial set to go on trial in June. The one witness who can testify says the TV star drugged and assaulted her in 1996 at a Los Angeles hotel.

May 22, 2017:

Jury selection begins in Allegheny County.

 

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