Judy Huth, who is now 64, and a friend, Donna Samuelson, testified that in 1975, when they were teenagers, they were invited by Mr. Cosby to accompany him to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, days after she met him. had met on a movie set in Los Angeles. a park near their homes, where he was making a movie, “Let’s Do It Again”.
According to them, days later he invited them to his tennis club and then took them to a house where he was staying, where they played a game where they had to drink beer if they lost at billiards. He then asked them to follow him in their car to the Playboy Mansion.
“Are you ready for your surprise?” he said, according to Mrs Huth. “I had no idea what it could be,” Ms Huth testified in court at the trial.
During the trial, her lawyers showed the jury a photo of Ms Huth standing with Mr Cosby in the mansion’s games room playing arcade and pinball machines, they said. It was taken by Mrs. Samuelson, Mrs. Huth told the court, fifteen minutes earlier, she said, Mr. Cosby had harassed her.
Mr. Cosby put his hands on Mrs. Samuelson’s shoulders at first, but she squirmed away, Mrs. Samuelson said.
Mrs. Huth asked if she could use a bathroom, she said, and when she came out, Mr. Cosby was sitting on a bed in an adjoining bedroom.
“He patted the seat next to him,” she said. “I sat down. He tried to lean back on me, he tried to kiss me, he tried to put his hands under my belly button where my high-waisted pants were.”
To distract him, Mrs. Huth said, she told Mr. Cosby she was on her period. But then, she said, “he put his sweat down, grabbed my hand, put it over his hand, closed it” and forced her to perform a sexual act with him.
Mr Cosby has denied sexually assaulting Ms Huth, or any of the other women who have come forward in recent years to accuse him of sexual misconduct. In a videotaped in 2015, Mr Cosby denied any sexual contact with Ms Huth, saying he did not know her and could not remember taking her to the Playboy Mansion.
Mr Cosby’s lawyer noted that Ms Huth recalled when the meeting took place: although she initially said it was in 1974, when she was 15, she recently came to the conclusion that it was in 1975, when she was 16.
Mr. Cosby’s lawyers had argued that she had in fact been a willing visitor to the Playboy Mansion, noting that she did not flee after what she described as a disturbing encounter with Mr. Cosby, but kept swimming in the mansion for hours. in the pool, ordering cocktails and mixing with celebrities.
“Boy, Judy and Donna had a great time,” said Mr. Cosby’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, referring to Mrs. Huth and her friend.
Mrs Huth testified that afterwards she had been angry and wanted to leave. Mrs. Samuelson testified that she persuaded Mrs. Huth to stay and calm down. Mrs. Huth agreed, she said, because Mrs. Samuelson was the one driving.
But though they stayed, Mrs. Huth said she was busy, just going through the motions and thinking about what had happened in the bedroom. The two friends said they left the mansion around midnight and agreed to keep what had happened a secret.
