Another Victim From Bill Cosby's 2005 Rape Lawsuit Reveals Her Identity
Posted on Wed Nov 26th, 2014 9:40am PDT By X17 Staff
Donna Motsinger, 73, of Taos, New Mexico has revealed that she was one of the 12 anonymous women who testified against Bill Cosby in the civil rape lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand in 2005.
Motsinger says she was Jane Doe number eight, and she claims she was drugged and raped by the Cosby Show star at a jazz club in Sausalito, California in 1971. The case against the actor was settled out of court in 2006, but after Cosby was back in the news this month, a number of women from the lawsuit have come forward.
Motsinger tells the New York Post:
Barbara Bowman, who also appeared as a witness in Constand's case, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post earlier this month about her ordeal, and shortly after that, former publicist Joan Tarshis came forward and revealed that the former comedian assaulted her on two occasions in 1969. Former supermodel Janice Dickinson appeared on Entertainment Tonight last week and alleged that Cosby drugged raped her in 1982, and Renita Chaney Hill, Angela Leslie and Kristina Ruehli also came forward this week.
But despite all these women's statements, Cosby insists that he's innocent. His attorney, Marty Singer, told CNN on November 21, "The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity."
For the record, when we polled our X17 readers last week, a whopping 73% of you think he's guilty...
Motsinger says she was Jane Doe number eight, and she claims she was drugged and raped by the Cosby Show star at a jazz club in Sausalito, California in 1971. The case against the actor was settled out of court in 2006, but after Cosby was back in the news this month, a number of women from the lawsuit have come forward.
Motsinger tells the New York Post:
- "I feel guilty not telling my story. I’m a coward over here. Those women are brave. It’s the least I can do. I want to tell people so [the victims] can’t be bullied, so they can’t be discredited."
Barbara Bowman, who also appeared as a witness in Constand's case, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post earlier this month about her ordeal, and shortly after that, former publicist Joan Tarshis came forward and revealed that the former comedian assaulted her on two occasions in 1969. Former supermodel Janice Dickinson appeared on Entertainment Tonight last week and alleged that Cosby drugged raped her in 1982, and Renita Chaney Hill, Angela Leslie and Kristina Ruehli also came forward this week.
But despite all these women's statements, Cosby insists that he's innocent. His attorney, Marty Singer, told CNN on November 21, "The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity."
For the record, when we polled our X17 readers last week, a whopping 73% of you think he's guilty...
Poll
Do YOU think Bill Cosby's guilty?
No; and it's character assassination to say he raped these women. | |
Yes; too many people are making claims. It must be true. |