On Tuesday, a jury in Santa Monica found Bill Cosby liable for sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in the 1970s and ordered him to pay $500,000.
But to hear Cosby’s team tell it, the decision was an “astonishing victory” for the 84-year-old actor.
Judy Huth first brought her civil suit against Cosby in 2014, but it was long delayed while the comedian was tried in Pennsylvania on an unrelated sexual assault allegation. After his conviction in that case was overturned in 2021, however, momentum in Huth’s case picked back up.