that woman is telling the truth. when i finally got in touch with her attorney and said, my name is barbara bowman, and it happened to me, too. and she told me you re not the only one. i was the third, and there were two others before me, and then i found out there were ten more. team cosby has always strongly denied all allegations, but andrea constand s attorneys were determined the women be heard, petitioning the court to allow all 13 to tell their stories at trial. all of us were willing to testify. but the women never took the stand. the case never went to trial. cosby sat for a deposition, but settled with constand in the summer of 2006. the deposition is sealed. there s some sort of financial
six alternates listened to lawyers lay out and refute the case against bill cosby. they then tried for another six to get a verdict. from my point of view it was right up the middle. that s a juror who didn t want his identity revealed. there was a 10-2 vote near the end of one count but as soon as the foreman announced a vote, three of the people jumped up and wanted to change their votes so putting it back i think back to the middle. so on saturday morning, june 17 we re following breaking news on the bill cosby case, a judge declaring a mistrial. a mistrial. mr. cosby sat there looking somber and a bit shocked. i don t know shocked at the outcome or just shocked at the
family. i remember andrea telling me that she had met bill cosby. i just thought, wow! that s so lucky. was it good luck turned bad? the case against cosby. breaking news. hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein is apologizing after a new york times report detailed numerous allegations of sexual harassment. more and more women are coming forward. years before sexual misconduct allegations against hollywood mogul harvey weinstein triggered a movement. stop the violence! stop the rape! there was one woman who came forward with allegations of sexual assault against another hollywood giant. bill cosby. her name, andrea constand, and her 2005 allegations eventually led to what you could call the prelude to me too, with more than 50 women alleging america s dad sexually assaulted them, as
da ended up pg dro the case. multiple sources talked about how angered officers on the force were by this decision, by the d. a s office. and, you know, one we quote actually as saying this made me as angry as anything in a long kroer involved in these kinds of investigations. so there was significant dissent about this decision. that recording, that bit of the recording that we played, though, that was the model was asked to do that by authorities? this was a sting operation conducted in cooperation with officers, and she was shadowed by undercover officers during that operation. and it was to the district attorney listening to that taip whether they felt there was enough evidence to move forward. the officers involved from the nypd special victims unit worked for some time on this. as i said multiple sources felt they had the evidence and then it went to the da s office, yes. obviously the story has a lot of threads, one of which is
joke. he s brought so much of this to light, stories of 13 women claim to have harassed or assaulted. in your piece, three women detailed how he raped them and others tell about how he sexually assaulted them. for years it s been years after the assault took place. why do you think they decided to speak now? every single woman talked about a culture of fear and silence. a vast machine designed to shut down these allegations. they faced off against pr operatives who planted smear items. that s so in miss gutierrez s case the woman you just heard. they faced off against lawyers. we talk at length in this story about the nondisclosure