Forty Six Women and Counting Claim Sexual Assaults by Bill Cosby; NY Magazine Site Hacked

Cover of New York Magazine, July 27, 2015

[Video and text embedded of individual women telling their stories]
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In 2005, a former basketball star named Andrea Constand, who met Cosby when she was working in the athletic department at Temple University, where he served on the board of trustees, alleged to authorities that he had drugged her to a state of semi-consciousness and then groped and digitally penetrated her. After her allegations were made public, a California lawyer named Tamara Green appeared on the Today show and said that, 30 years earlier, Cosby had drugged and assaulted her as well. Eventually, 12 Jane Does signed up to tell their own stories of being assaulted by Cosby in support of Constand’s case. Several of them eventually made their names public. But they were met, mostly, with skepticism, threats, and attacks on their character.
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He asked a modeling agent to connect him with young women who were new in town and “financially not doing well.” In the deposition, Cosby seemed confident that his behavior did not constitute rape; he apparently saw little difference between buying someone dinner in pursuit of sex and drugging them to reach the same goal. As for consent, he said, “I think that I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things.” If these women agreed to meet up, his deposition suggested, he felt that he had a right to them. And part of what took the accusations against Cosby so long to surface is that this belief extended to many of the women themselves (as well as the staff and lawyers and friends and others who helped keep the incidents secret).
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[In 2012] when a 14-year-oldMissouri cheerleader accused a popular older boy at her school of sexual assault, her classmates shamed her on social media and the family’s house was burned down. The whole world watched online. How could this kind of thing still be happening?
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There are now 46 women who have come forward publicly to accuse Cosby of rape or sexual assault; the 35 women here are the accusers who were willing to be photographed and interviewed by New York. The group, at present, ranges in age from early 20s to 80 and includes supermodels Beverly Johnson and Janice Dickinson alongside waitresses and Playboy bunnies and journalists and a host of women who formerly worked in show business. Many of the women say they know of others still out there who’ve chosen to remain silent.

http://www.nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html

‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen
By Noreen Malone and Amanda Demme

New York Magazine

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Barbara Bowman

[From article]
Their stories remained a secret for decades, because they feared no one would believe them if they spoke out.
Now, nearly 60 years since Bill Cosby's first alleged sexual assault, a group of women who say 'America's favorite dad' attacked them have come forward to reveal their harrowing experiences.
The 35 women, ranging in age from their early 20s to 80, have bravely agreed to be pictured for an issue of New York magazine, set to be published on Monday, while revealing the details of their encounter with the disgraced comedian.
The waitresses, actresses, Playboy bunnies, journalists and writers described how they were allegedly drugged, raped or molested by the star.
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The claims span experiences from the 1960s all the way to 2008, when Chloe Gains, 24, said the embattled film star spiked her drink during a party at the Playboy mansion.
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He also stated that he obtained prescriptions for quaaludes by claiming it was for a sore back, but actually gave the drug to women
Interviewed in a Philadelphia hotel over four days by a lawyer acting on behalf of a 30-year-old Temple University employee Andrea Constand, Cosby claimed he believed their encounters to be consensual.
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Barbara Bowman, 48, told the magazine: 'I went into this thinking he was going to be my father. To wake up half-dressed and raped by the man that said he was going to love me like a father? That's pretty sick.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3175673/We-t-disappeared-35-Bill-Cosby-s-rape-accusers-come-powerful-magazine-cover-tell-harrowing-experiences-hands-America-s-favorite-dad.html

'We can't be disappeared': 35 of Bill Cosby's rape accusers come together in powerful magazine shoot to recount their experiences at the hands of America's once favorite dad
Women came forward and agreed to be pictured for the publication
Each one described their encounters with the disgraced TV star
They include waitresses, actresses, Playboy bunnies and journalists
The brave group range in age from their early 20s to 80
They came forward a week after a shocking deposition from 2005 surfaced
Comedian admitted he gave quaaludes to women he had sex with
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:18 EST, 27 July 2015 | UPDATED: 04:54 EST, 27 July 2015

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A self-described hacker called ThreatKing, who says he hates New York City, claims he has successfully overwhelmed the site with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), overloading its servers with traffic. As of this writing, New York is completely inaccessible.[. . .]
ThreatKing provided a link to Vikingdom's Soundcloud page, which gives a hint into the group's reasoning. There, in a recording titled “Warning Message to the United States,” a robotic voice says “We are going to destroy state websites, city websites, agency websites and court websites of the United States. You have took away our country and its time to get it back by destroying the United States.”

http://www.dailydot.com/crime/new-york-magazine-ddos-bill-cosby-cover/

Anti-NYC hacker takes New York magazine offline
By William Turton
Jul 27, 2015, 6:58am CT | Last updated Jul 27, 2015, 3:48pm CT