How I used fame and drugs to sleep with vulnerable women and hush money so my wife wouldn't find out

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby, in sworn testimony a decade ago, said he had paid women after sex to keep the affairs from his wife, suggested he was skilled at reading women's unspoken desires and called one of his accusers a liar. 

Interviewed in a Philadelphia hotel over four days by a lawyer acting on behalf of a 30-year-old Temple University employee Andrea Constand, Cosby claimed he believed their encounters to be consensual. 

• But the bombshell deposition, unearthed by the New York Times, goes on to reveal how the disgraced comedian:
• Telephoned Constand and told her to tell her mother 'about the orgasm' because he didn't want her to think of him as a 'dirty old man'. 
• Obtained prescriptions for quaaludes by claiming it was for a sore back, but actually gave the drug to women.
• Paid women off with a private account so his wife, Camille, wouldn't find out about his extramarital affairs. 
• Admitted he was 'making light of a very serious situation' when quizzed by Constand's lawyer
• Admitted to playing the role of mentor when it came to meeting women
• Blocked a negative magazine article to avoid damaging his reputation 

The deposition was thought to have been confidential as part of the lawsuit settlement, but the New York Times obtained the documents through a court-reporting service, where it was publicly available.

Primarily he spoke of Constand, but also of other victims, including a 19-year-old model who sent him a poem and ended up on his couch where she pleasured him with lotion. After describing a sexual act he had with Constand, Cosby explained why he believed it to be consensual.

'I walk her out. She does not look angry. She does not say to me, don't ever do that again,' he said. 'She doesn't walk out with an attitude of a huff, because I think that I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them.'

Constand's lawyer, Dolores M. Troiani, accused Cosby of 'making light of a very serious situation'.

'That may very well be,' Cosby responded.  

Cosby has repeatedly denied all alleged sexual assault, though dozens of women have accused him of such acts.