Twelve: That's how many women have now publicly accused legendary comedian Bill Cosby of sexual abuse or misconduct, including rape and forced oral sex, stretching back into the '60s. The allegations began almost a decade ago, but have recently come under new public scrutiny.
Cosby has stringently denied any such allegations (except one, from a woman with whom he settled out of court), but they have taken a toll on his public life. NBC recently announced it was canceling a planned "comeback" sitcom project with Cosby; and Netflix will not air his already taped comedy special.
Below is a list of the women who have come forward to accuse Cosby, complete with details from their interviews as well as video, where available. The accusations are in chronological order according to when the women came forward, starting in 2005, not when they said the assaults took place.
This list does not include the still-anonymous "Jane Does" cited in a 2005 civil suit who have not come forward.
Andrea Constand
A former Temple University employee (where Cosby was and is on the board of trustees), Constand told police in January 2005 that Cosby assaulted her a year earlier in his home, after giving her sleeping pills. According to CBC, Constand "woke up and found her bra undone and her clothes in disarray." She filed a civil suit in March of 2005 after prosecutors announced there was "insufficient credible and admissible evidence" for a criminal charge. That civil suit -- which named 13 other women as victims -- was settled in November 2006.
Tamara Green
Green came forward in February 2005, following Constand's public allegations and was then the only other named victim in Constand's civil suit. An attorney, Green told "The Today Show"'s Matt Lauer that Cosby assaulted her in 1970, following a business lunch. He "went into some sort of office area at the back of the restaurant and he produced two capsules in his hand," Green said. The pills put her "almost literally face down on the table of this restaurant."
Beth Ferrier
Ferrier came forward in 2005 and said that she was previously one of the unnamed women in Constand's suit. She told People that Cosby had been a mentor to her in the '80s, but that he drugged her drink one night. "I woke up in my car in the parking lot with my clothes all a mess," she said. "I wondered, I still wonder, 'What did he do with me? Why was my bra unhooked?'" They later had an affair for several years, Ferrier said: "I felt like I couldn't say no."
Barbara Bowman
Bowman came forward in 2006 and said she was one of the women named in Constand's civil suit. Bowman has repeated her allegations multiple times since going public, most recently writing a column for the Washington Post. In 1985, she said, Cosby "brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure, and then assaulted me multiple times."
Joan Tarshsis
Tarshis, a journalist, came forward in mid-November to accuse Cosby of rape in 1969, detailing the assaults in a Hollywood Elsewhere essay. Tarshis said Cosby drug and then raped her. She detailed one such rape in a CNN interview: "I said, 'If you have sex with me, your wife is gonna know it because you probably will infect her.' I thought I was very clever in saying that, but he was more clever and instead he made me have oral sex with him, which really was just horrible. To me it's much, much worse than had he just raped me the normal way."
Janice Dickinson
Dickinson, a supermodel and reality star, told "Entertainment Tonight" in November that Cosby assaulted her at Lake Tahoe in 1982, after drugging her glass of red wine at dinner. "The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man. ... Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me," Dickinson said. "And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs."
Therese Serignese
Serignese, who told The Huffington Post that she was Jane Doe No. 10 in Constand's civil suit, said in November that Cosby raped her in 1976 after she met him at the Las Vegas Hilton. She said Cosby had her escorted to the green room, where he gave her two white pills and some water. "The next memory I have was I was in a bathroom and I was kind of bending forward and he was behind me having sex with me," Serignese said. "I was just there, thinking 'I'm on drugs, I'm drugged.' I felt drugged and I was being raped and it was kind of surreal."
Linda Joy Traitz
Traitz told CNN in November that Cosby assaulted her in 1969 while she was working at a Los Angeles restaurant that he co-owned. He offered her "brightly colored pills," according to CNN. But she said she resisted before he groped her chest, "pushed her down in the seat and toward the door, and tried to lay on top her," according to CNN.
Louisa Moritz
Moritz told TMZ in November that Cosby forced oral sex on her before an appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1971. Moritz said: "He took his hands and put them on the back of my head and forced his penis in my mouth, saying, 'Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways.'"
Carla Ferrigno
Ferrigno, the wife of "Incredible Hulk" actor Lou Ferrigno, told CNN in November that Cosby forced a kiss on her during a party at his home in 1967. "It was so unexpected and so rough. He kissed me right in the mouth," she said.
Renita Chaney Hill
Hill told CBS Pittsburgh in November that she was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Cosby for four years i nthe '80s, after being cast, at age 15, in his series "Picture Pages." Cosby would "insist she have a drink even though she was underage. She says she now believes she was drugged," according to CBS. "One time, I remember just before I passed out, I remember him kissing and touching me and I remember the taste of his cigar on his breath, and I didn't like it ... I always thought it was odd that after I had this drink I would end up in my bed the next morning and I wouldn't remember anything," Hill said. She said she, because she was unconscious, she doesn't know if she was raped.
Kristina Ruehli
Ruehli told Philly Mag in November that she met Cosby in 1965 while working as a secretary at a talent agency. Cosby invited her to a party at his home, but she said that no one else was there when she showed up. He poured her a drink. "I drank a bourbon-and-7 at the time. I could really hold my liquor. I'm Irish. And I had a couple of those -- just two -- and then I just don't remember much," she said. Soon, she said, she was in a bed: "It was all foggy, and I woke up in the bed. I found myself on the bed, and he had his shirt off. He had unzipped his pants. I was just coming to. He was attempting to force me into oral sex." Ruehli said she was one of the Jane Does named in Constand's suit.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Lou Ferrigno had died.
