The actor and comedian Bill Cosby faces new accusations of sexual assault in a lawsuit brought by nine women who allege he “used his enormous power, fame and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers, as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them”.
The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in US district court for Nevada, several weeks after the Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, signed a “lookback law” that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases.
