Bill Cosby to face new trial over alleged sexual assaults at the Playboy Mansion
Comedian Bill Cosby will face a civil trial in July 2018 for an alleged sexual assault incident at the Playboy Manion more than four decades ago, a California judge has ruled.
Judy Huth has accused Cosby, 79, of giving her alcohol and then sexually abusing her in 1974 when she was 15.
Cosby is scheduled to face a separate civil trial next June in a lawsuit filed by Chloe Goins, a former model who has accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her at the mansion in 2008.
The court hearing on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Cosby’s criminal trial for sexual assault in Pennsylvania ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Once beloved for his role as Heathcliff Huxtable in the 1980s television comedy The Cosby Show, Cosby has been accused of sexual assault from approximately 60 women, with the alleged incidents spanning from the mid-1960s to 2008.
Cosby has maintained his innocence throughout and repeatedly denied the allegations.
Judge Craig Karlan on Tuesday set July 30, 2018, as the trial date for Huth's lawsuit. The case had been partially delayed by Cosby's criminal charges.