Speaking after the verdict,Huth told reporters she was “elated” by the result that was “a long time coming”.
“It’s been torture,” she said of her seven-year legal fight. “To be ripped apart,you know,thrown under the bus and backed over. This,to me,is such a big victory.”
Huth hadtestified that the comedian invited her and a friend to the Playboy Mansion when she was 16,and he was 37,and forced her to perform a sex act. She told jurors that Cosby took her hand and used it to masturbate his penis.
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Cosby,who did not appear in person at the trial,denied the allegation. In video of a deposition shown to jurors,Cosby said he did not remember Huth. But he said the incident could not have happened because he would not have pursued sexual contact at that time with someone who was under the of age 18.
Cosby lawyer Jennifer Bonjean challenged Huth’s account throughout the trial,including her revised timeline.
When the lawsuit was filed in December 2014,Huth said the incident occurred in 1974,when she was 15. She told jurors she recently concluded that she had been mistaken about the year and now believes it happened in 1975.