Actor and comedian Bill Cosby has been sued by former actress Victoria Valentino under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on s** abuse claims.

Valentino alleges that Cosby drugged and s**ually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969.

She says she was an actress and singer when she met Cosby, who later approached her at a Los Angeles cafe where she was crying over the recent drowning death of her six-year-old son.

Cosby offered to pay for a spa treatment for her and a friend, and then sent a chauffeured car to pick the women up for dinner.

That evening at a steakhouse, Cosby gave them each a pill, according to Valentino.

“Here!

Take this!” the lawsuit alleges Cosby said to them.

“It will make you feel better.

It will make us ALL feel better.”
Cosby then drove the women to his house, where Valentino passed out on a couch and later woke up and witnessed him s**ually assaulting her unnamed friend, according to the lawsuit.

The court documents allege Cosby then “engaged in forced s**ual intercourse” with Valentino while she was incapacitated from the drug.

Valentino’s allegations come after lawsuits last year by six Cosby accusers in New York under a similar provision known as a “lookback” law that allows adults to file s**ual abuse cases for allegations that had fallen outside the statute of limitations.

Cosby, who has been accused of rape, s**ual assault and s**ual harassment by at least 60 women, has denied all allegations involving s** crimes.

He was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era and spent nearly three years at a state prison near Philadelphia before a higher court threw out the conviction and released him in 2021.

His spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, has said that Valentino’s lawsuit lacks “any proof or facts” and that so-called lookback laws violate constitutional rights aimed at protecting crime victims and “those that are accused of a crime”.

The lawsuit in LA county superior court was filed nearly two years after Cosby left prison when the Pennsylvania supreme court overturned his 2018 s**ual assault conviction.

It found he gave incriminating testimony in a deposition about the encounter only after believing he had immunity from prosecution.

The trial judge and an intermediate appeals court had found no evidence of such immunity.

Earlier this year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby s**ually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was a teenager in 1975.

Valentino is also a former Playboy model.

Seven other accusers received a settlement from Cosby’s insurers in the wake of the Pennsylvania conviction over a defamation lawsuit they had filed in Massachusetts.

Their lawsuit said that Cosby and his agents disparaged them in denying their allegations of abuse.

Valentino’s lawsuit requests a jury trial and seeks unspecified punitive damages.

Cosby’s spokesperson calls it an attempt to prevent black men from achieving the American dream.