Bill Cosby assaults a teenager at the Playboy Mansion, according to the jury.
Written byTimes Magazine
According to a jury, comedian Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy home in Los Angeles in 1975.
Judy Hutt testified before a civil court that Cosby, 84, forced her to have sex with him when she was 16.
The jury also ruled that Cosby should pay Ms. Hutt, now 64,$500,000 (£407,000) in compensation.
Less than a year ago, Cosby was released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned.
Over 50 women have been accused of harassing the man once known as America's Father, a charge he denies.
The civil suit against Cosby in Santa Monica, California, is the first to be brought to court and is one of the last remaining cases against him. Filed in 2014, it was delayed for years due to Cosby's criminal case. Ms. Hutt's complaint alleges that she took her and other underage friends to the scandalous home, lured them into bedrooms, and raped them.
Crying in the stands, Ms. Hutt told the court she felt "crazy, betrayed and stupid" after the incident when her lawyer provided a photo of her and Cosby at the villa.
Cosby was not required to appear in person and never did, but the court saw testimony from Ms. Hutt's attorney in 2015 in which the comedian said he had no recollection of it and would not have sex with minors.
Cosby's lawyers tried to poke at Ms. Hutt's allegations and found that she initially said she was 15 at the time of the happening but had changed that figure weeks before the trial.
They accused Ms. Hutt of offering her photo with Cosby to tabloids and others for a fee. The jury was also shown a 2016 video testimony of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, a close friend of Cosby in the 1970s, who said it was "highly unusual" to allow underage girls into the villa.
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