Bill Cosby’s lawyer, Glenn Beck, and other ugliness continues to surround Bill Cosby
Earlier this week, Bill Cosby made clear he “does not intend to dignify” the many allegations against him—a promise he has so far fulfilled by hiring attorney Marty Singer, whose response had so far ensured that complete lack of dignity. After sending one of his trademark threatening letters to BuzzFeed, suggesting that the site and anyone else publishing stories from Cosby’s alleged accusers was placing themselves in peril of legal prosecution, Singer has now released another, much lengthier statement blasting those women and the media. Like so many of Singer’s missives, it’s grating, confusing in parts, and no one is looking forward to seeing it. He is quickly becoming the Leonard Part 6 of lawyers.
Singer’s letter specifically blasts Linda Joy Traitz—who claimed Cosby drove her to the beach, offered her pills, and attempted to force himself on her—by referencing her criminal history, which he says includes identity theft, drug possession, and fraud. He also went after two new claims made just yesterday: Carla Ferrigno, wife of Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, claims Cosby attacked her in 1967 in his home while Cosby’s wife was asleep upstairs, grabbing her and forcefully kissing her. And Louisa Moritz, an actress familiar from Love American Style and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, said Cosby forced her to perform oral sex on him while backstage at The Tonight Show in 1971. “Have a taste of this,” she says he told her. “It will do you good in so many ways… You don’t want to upset me and the plans for your future, do you?”
“We’ve reached the point of absurdity. The stories are getting more ridiculous,” Singer said in response. “I think people are trying to come up with these wild stories in order to justify why they have waited 40 to 50 years to disclose these ridiculous accusations.” The sort of logic feedback loop this creates—that these women are fabricating stories to explain why they waited so long to disclose their stories, which they fabricated to explain why they waited so long to disclose their stories, which they etc.—is why Singer gets paid the big lawyer bucks.
Singer also called into question the credibility of Moritz, now a criminal defense lawyer, by noting that she had been disciplined by the California State Bar and ordered not to practice. He says this was because she “didn’t report certain quarterly reports,” though he admits that “the nature of the reports is unclear from the documents.” Presumably his team is still trying to determine whether these were Moritz’s quarterly “Bill Cosby Did Not Sexually Assault Me” report, which would indeed be a smoking gun.
Singer’s statement was unfortunately too late for him to also address the latest accusation from Angela Leslie, who told the New York Daily News that—after sending Cosby a letter and photo in hopes of landing a role in 1990’s Ghost Dad—Cosby invited her to the set of The Cosby Show. Though she canceled that trip because of illness, she says she later accepted another invitation to meet him in Las Vegas, where he brought her to his room and had her “audition” by pretending to be intoxicated, then handing her a drink to help with that. She says he then put lotion in her palm and “masturbated with my hand.”