Cosby files counter case on woman, lawyers

Her law suit sparked the only criminal charges against the disgraced comedian in his running sexual assault scandal, court records showed. Cosby’s lawsuit, which was filed under seal in a Philadelphia federal court on February 1, named Andrea Constand and her attorneys, Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, online court records showed. 

US District Judge Eduardo Robreno lifted the seal on only parts of the civil case on Tuesday and the complaint was not publicly available by Wednesday night, so the full extent of the lawsuit was not immediately known. The cause of the case was listed as a “contract dispute.” 

Prosecutors late last year charged Cosby, 78, with sexually assaulting Constand, a former basketball coach at his alma mater Temple University, just days before the statue of limitations to bring charges ran out. The New York Times reported that Cosby’s attorneys have repeatedly accused the defendants of breaching an agreement in a previous civil suit brought by Constand over the alleged sexual assault, which was resolved out of court with a confidential settlement. Cosby’s suit also named Constand’s mother and American Media Inc, which owns the National Enquirer magazine, as defendants, court records show. 

A Pennsylvania judge two weeks ago rejected Cosby’s attempts to have the criminal trial dismissed.