Comment on Why No One Should Be Surprised By the Bill Cosby Rape Allegations: A Timeline of His Bad Behavior

Thirteen women accused Cosby of sexual assault nearly 10 years ago, when the first official charge against him was made in 2005. [...] it wasn't until a video of (male) comedian Hannibal Buress calling Cosby a rapist during an October stand-up set went viral that people began to care. [...] even more women have come forward with horrific allegations about Cosby dating back decades. All the latest news There are many who are expressing shock that the imagined family man was capable of sexual assault, despite the fact that evidence and stories of Cosby's megalomania, intimidation and control tactics have been public knowledge since the height of his fame during The Cosby Show. Kristina Ruehli, then a secretary at Artists Agency Corp., says Cosby drugged her and tried to force her to perform oral sex at a party in his home. Joan Tarshis, a 19-year-old aspiring comedy writer, says Cosby fixes her a "redeye," a Bloody Mary topped with beer, in his bungalow while they work on material for The Bill Cosby Show. Linda Joy Traitz, a 19-year-old waitress at Café Figaro, a restaurant Cosby partially owns, accepts a ride home from the comedian. Instead of taking her home, however, "he drove out to the beach and opened a briefcase filled with assorted drugs and kept offering me pills 'to relax,' which I declined," she says. Cosby allegedly forces Louisa Mortiz, an actress, to perform oral sex on him in a Tonight Show greenroom. Cosby is at a party at the Playboy Mansion when Tommy Smothers congratulates the comedian on his latest TV show, not knowing it had been canceled a day prior. After having dinner together, she says he gives her a glass of red wine and a pill to help ease menstrual cramps. Ferrier says she later confronted Cosby at his hotel and he told she had had too much to drink.