NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Iconic entertainer Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday on three counts of sexual assault, a decision that punctuates one of the most thundering falls from grace in American cultural history.Once one of the nation’s most admired men, a pioneering African-American actor beloved for his role as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the 1980s megahit “The Cosby Show,” Cosby was recast in a suburban Philadelphia courtroom as a merciless predator and sexual deviant.
Comedian Bill Cosby Convicted Of Sexual Assault In Retrial
By Manuel Roig-Franzia, the Washington Post, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Thu, 04/26/2018 - 10:02am
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