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Bill Cosby trial: Janice Dickinson recalls feeling 'ashamed' in testimony on alleged rape


(CNN) Bill Cosby gave Janice Dickinson a blue pill that made her unable to move in Lake Tahoe in 1982, she testified in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, court on Thursday.

Dickinson is a "prior bad acts" witness against Cosby, 80, in his trial on three charges of aggravated indecent assault. Prosecutors say what she and and other women experienced shows Cosby had a pattern in his assaults.

Dickinson was the latest woman to testify she was given a blue pill that incapacitated her, and she said she worried her career would be ruined if she spoke out.

Here are the five biggest revelations from her testimony.

Cosby flew her from Indonesia first-class to see her

In 1982, Dickinson heard from her booker that Cosby wanted to meet her. She was excited because she wanted a career in acting, she testified, and thought he could help.

"I was told that Mr. Cosby mentored people and he was taking an interest in seeing what I'm like, I suppose," she said.

She was on a modeling assignment in Bali, Indonesia, when Cosby called her at the hotel, she testified. He offered a plane ticket and wardrobe to come meet him in Lake Tahoe, a resort area on the California-Nevada border, where he was acting.

"He tried to get me to fly economy," she said in court. But she said it had to be first-class.

She recalls being given a blue pill, like other women

In Lake Tahoe, she went to dinner with Cosby and another man and started to get menstruation cramps, she testified.

"I mentioned it to the gentlemen at the table. Cosby said 'I have something for that.' I was given a blue pill," she said.

After that, they went to a room, and she was seated at the edge of a bed. She felt lightheaded and she had trouble getting her words out, she testified. Then Cosby got on top of her, she said.

"I couldn't move, I felt like I was rendered motionless," Dickinson testified.

Several other women in this case have said Cosby gave them a blue pill that made them unable to move.

Andrea Constand, the former Temple University employee whose testimony is at the center of the trial, testified at the previous trial that Cosby gave her three blue pills that he said would help her relax.

"Put them down. They're your friends. They'll take the edge off," she recalled Cosby saying. "I said, 'I trust you.' I took the pills, and I swallowed the pills down."

Afterward, Constand began to slur her words, and she felt weak, she testified. Cosby moved her to the couch, and as she lay there frozen, she felt his hand groping her breasts and moving inside her vagina, she testified.

Chelan Lasha, a woman who testified on Wednesday, said she was 17 in 1986 when she met Cosby at a Las Vegas hotel where she worked. She testified she had a cold at the time and Cosby offered her an antihistamine.

"He gave me a little blue pill with a shot of amaretto. He said it will help break up the cold," she testified.

"Did you take what he said was an antihistamine?" prosecutor M. Stewart Ryan asked.

"Yes, because I trusted him," she said, sobbing.

Dickinson remembered his smell

Dickinson said she remembered what Cosby smelled and tasted like after she was drugged.

"He smelled like cigars and espresso and his body odor," she said.

"I remember his breath, I remember the taste of his kiss."

She testified she felt pain between her legs, and that she passed out after he entered her.

"It was gross," she said.

She worried her career would be ruined if she came forward

She woke up the next morning with her pajamas halfway off and didn't know where she was, she testified. She was very sore and noticed semen between her legs and felt anal pain, she testified.

Dickinson then confronted Cosby, but he didn't respond.

"Do you want to explain what happened last night, because that wasn't cool," she testified that she said at the time.

"I wanted to hit him, I wanted to punch him in the face," Dickinson testified. "I can remember feeling anger, disgust, and ashamed."

She did not report the incident to police because she "knew that he could ruin my career if I ever came to and said something," she testified.

"You just don't say things against Cosby, that's something we just don't do," she said.

Dickinson defended her decision to withhold the full story from her book

Tom Mesereau, attorney for Bill Cosby, leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse.

On cross-examination, Cosby's attorney Tom Mesereau asked why a passage in Dickinson's 2002 book about the Lake Tahoe visit does not say she and Cosby had sex.

"I wasn't under oath when I wrote that book," she testified.

Dickinson testified she was broke at the time and she wrote the book for money to pay for her children's education.

"So you lied to get a paycheck?" Mesereau asked.

"Don't call me a liar," she said.


Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN) Reality TV star and supermodel Janice Dickinson testified in court Thursday that she confronted Bill Cosby and wanted to punch him in the face after she said he drugged her and raped her in a hotel in Lake Tahoe in 1982.

"Do you want to explain what happened last night, because that wasn't cool," she told him, according to her testimony.

"I wanted to hit him, I wanted to punch him in the face," she said. "I can remember feeling anger, disgust, and ashamed."

Dickinson is the fourth "prior bad acts" witness to testify in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, court against Cosby, 80, in his trial on three charges of aggravated indecent assault.

The criminal charges deal solely with Cosby's actions toward Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who says Cosby drugged and then assaulted her at his home in January 2004.

She is scheduled to begin her testimony Friday morning.

However, prosecutors are allowed to seek testimony from up to five other women who have said Cosby also drugged and assaulted them in previous incidents. The prosecution argues that these "prior bad acts" witnesses show that Cosby's behavior shows a pattern of misconduct and he did not make a one-time mistake in his actions toward Constand.

Cosby has said the sex with Constand was consensual.

'I couldn't move'

Janice Dickinson walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse in a break from testifying on Thursday.

Dickinson, now 63, was a supermodel in 1982 and said Cosby flew her out to Lake Tahoe, a resort area on the California-Nevada border, to meet her.

At dinner with him and another man, she mentioned she had menstrual cramps, she testified. Cosby said he had something for that and she said she was given a blue pill.

They went to a room, and she began to feel lightheaded and couldn't get the right words out, she testified. Cosby then got on top her, she testified.

"He smelled like cigars and espresso and his body odor," she said. "I couldn't move, I felt like I was rendered motionless."

"Here was America's dad on top of me, happily married man with five children and how very wrong it was," she said.

She recalled feeling vaginal pain.

"I passed out after he entered me. It was gross," she testified.

When she woke up, she was sore and remembers her pajamas were halfway off, she testified. That's when she confronted him.

During a spirited cross-examination, Cosby's defense attorney Tom Mesereau asked why a passage in Dickinson's 2002 book about the Lake Tahoe visit does not say she and Cosby had sex.

"I wasn't under oath when I wrote that book," she testified.

Heidi Thomas, Chelan Lasha and Janice Baker-Kinney have each testified over the past few days that Cosby incapacitated them with drugs or wine and then assaulted them in separate incidents in 1984, 1986 and 1982, respectively.

On cross-examination, Cosby's defense attorneys have worked to point out inconsistencies in their stories. In opening statements, Mesereau called the prosecution's strategy with these witnesses "prosecution by distraction" because they did not have enough evidence in Constand's case.

"When you don't have a case, you have to fill the time with something else," Mesereau said. "Remember my words as you listen to the people testify."

Woman says she felt dizzy after Cosby gave her drink

The fifth and final prior accuser to testify, Lise-Lotte Lublin, said she remembered being in Cosby's room and blacking out, but does not remember a sexual assault.

She was 23 in 1989 when her modeling agency arranged for her to meet "The Cosby Show" star. She said Cosby spent time with her family and introduced her as his daughter to others.

"I felt like he was representing himself as a father figure and a mentor to me," she said.

She said Cosby offered her a drink at another meeting in Las Vegas, one about acting. She said she told him she didn't drink but he said that it would relax her.

"I kind of trusted him because he's America's dad," she said.

She testified she began to feel dizzy within minutes, and he asked her to come sit with him. She sat in front of him between his legs and he began to touch her hair, she recalled.

She vaguely remembers walking down a hallway of a hotel suite, she said. She remembers nothing from then until she woke up at home in her bed, she told the court.

Years later, in January 2015, after hearing accounts from other women, she said she realized "something else had happened after I blacked out. I don't know what it was, but I believe I know what it was."

Defense attorney Kathleen Bliss asked her about testimony and prior statements, in an apparent attempt to point out inconsistencies about her comments about sitting between Cosby's legs.

Bliss also targeted Lublin's memory.

"You have absolutely no idea if you were sexually assaulted," Bliss said.

"I don't know what happened after I blacked out," Lublin replied.


Former model is the fourth of five accusers to take the witness stand at Cosby’s sex assault retrial

A former model told a jury on Thursday that Bill Cosby raped her in 1982 after giving her a pill he claimed would ease her menstrual cramps but instead left her immobilised and unable to stop an assault she called “gross”.

Janice Dickinson, the fourth of five accusers to take the witness stand at Cosby’s sex assault retrial, told jurors she was “rendered motionless” by the pill as Cosby got on top of her in his Lake Tahoe, Nevada, hotel room. She said he smelled of cigars and espresso.

“I didn’t consent to this. Here was ‘America’s Dad’ on top of me. A married man, father of five kids, on top of me,” Dickinson said. “I was thinking how wrong it was. How very wrong it was.”

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Dickinson, 27 at the time, testified she felt vaginal pain and, after waking up the next morning, noticed semen between her legs. She said Cosby looked at her “like I was crazy” when she confronted him about what had happened.

“I wanted to hit him. I wanted to punch him in the face,” she said.

A former TV personality who has called herself the “world’s first supermodel,” Dickinson became one of the first women to go public with her allegations against Cosby when she told her story on the Entertainment Tonight TV show in 2014.

Another accuser, taking the witness stand after Dickinson, said Cosby prodded her to drink two shots in his Las Vegas hotel suite, then had her sit between his knees and started petting her head.

Lise-Lotte Lublin told jurors she lost consciousness and does not remember anything else about that night in 1989 – a time when Cosby was at the height of his fame starring as sweater-wearing father-of-five Dr Cliff Huxtable on America’s top-rated TV show, The Cosby Show.

“I trusted him because he’s ‘America’s Dad’,” Lublin said. “I trusted him because he’s a figure people trusted for many years, including myself.”

Dickinson and Lublin were among five additional accusers who prosecutors called to the stand to show Cosby had a history of drugging and molesting women long before he was charged with violating Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

The 80-year-old comedian says his sexual encounter with Constand was consensual. His first trial ended in a hung jury.

The defense has dismissed the other women’s testimony as “prosecution by distraction”.

“These women proved that they were here to back up their sister – they got their sister’s back,” Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said outside court.

Dickinson, the only celebrity accuser to testify against Cosby, parried with defense attorneys who seized on discrepancies between her testimony and what she wrote about their encounter in her 2002 autobiography.

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She told jurors she wanted to include details about the assault, but wound up telling a highly sanitized version in which there was no sex, let alone a rape, because her publisher said the legal department would never let the allegations against Cosby make it to print.

Dickinson said she went along because she needed the money and feared Cosby would ruin her career. “It’s all a fabrication there. It was written by ghostwriters. I wanted a paycheck.”

Dickinson testified she got to know Cosby after he called her agent and said he wanted to meet and possibly mentor her as she looked to expand her career into singing and acting. The first accuser to testify, Heidi Thomas, said she met Cosby the same way.

She said Cosby invited her to Lake Tahoe after an initial meeting at his New York City townhouse, where he had given her an acting manual. Cosby tracked her down to Bali, where she was modelling, and asked her to Lake Tahoe.

In Tahoe, she tested her vocal range with Cosby’s musical director, watched Cosby perform and then joined the two men for dinner. She said that was where she started to get cramps and Cosby produced a little blue pill. She took it and soon became woozy and “slightly out of it”.

Cosby’s musical director left, Dickinson said, and Cosby told her: “We’ll continue this conversation upstairs.”

Dickinson had a camera with her, she said, and took photos of Cosby wearing a colourful robe and talking on the telephone.

“Shortly after I took the pictures and he finished the conversation, he got on top of me,” Dickinson said. “His robe opened up ... I couldn’t move.

“I didn’t fly to Tahoe to have sex with Mr Cosby.”,” she said.

Prosecutors hope the five accusers’ testimony will help bolster Constand, the former women’s basketball administrator at Cosby’s alma mater, Temple University. Constand, who will take the stand later in the trial, alleges Cosby gave her pills and molested her. The defense says she set him up to score a big payday. Cosby settled her civil suit for $3.4m.

The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand and the other women have done.


Janice Dickinson has told of her anger and disgust at being allegedly raped by 'America's dad' Bill Cosby after losing consciousness when the disgraced actor gave her a 'small blue pill' that he claimed would help with menstrual pains.

She told how she 'zonked' out as he entered her and how she thought, 'Here was America's dad on top of me, a happily married man with five children and I remember how wrong it was, how very, very wrong it was'.

Taking the witness stand on the fourth day of Cosby's retrial for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, 45, the former supermodel recalled being invited by Cosby to see him perform at Lake Tahoe and supposedly discuss her acting and singing ambitions in 1982.

Dickinson wore a simple black pants suit and white shirt as she appeared at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday.

She nodded briefly to the judge as she took the stand and spoke animatedly and heatedly at times. Speaking of her alleged rape her voice was full of anger but she never glanced across at the defendant though he sat just feet away.

The supermodel claims that Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982, when she was 27 years old, after giving her an unknown pill.

: Bill Cosby accuser model Janice Dickinson, 63, walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse in a break from testifying on the fourth day of the sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pennsylvania

Dickinson first accused Cosby of sexual assault in 2014. She says the incident happened in Lake Tahoe in 1982

Cosby's sexual assault retrial, which started on Monday, is expected to last a month at Montgomery County Courthouse

On the first day of that trip she remembered having dinner with Cosby and his music director Stu B Gardener and complaining of menstrual cramps.

She said, 'I started to get menstruation cramps I had my hand on my stomach probably travel definitely my time of the month and I mentioned it to the gentlemen at the table.

'And Cosby said, 'I have something for that'.' And I was given a blue pill - a little round blue pill.'

She didn't know what it was, only that Cosby told her it would help.

She said: 'We remained seated inside the restaurant and shortly after I took the pill I started to feel woozy and dizzy, slightly out of it.

'When we were finished Gardener left and Cosby said, 'We'll continue this conversation upstairs so I followed him to his room'.'

Once there, Cosby changed into a bathrobe and made a telephone call while Dickinson, 63, sat on the edge of the bed, the supermodel said.

The court saw three pictures taken by Dickinson with the Polaroid camera she carried with her as she sat on the end of the bed in Cosby's hotel room.

Cosby is on a telephone, in a robe, wearing glasses and brown velvet hat.

After the photos were shown, Dickinson recalled: 'He got on top of me and his robe opened and I remembered he smelled like cigars and espresso and his body odor.

'I couldn't move. I was I felt like I was rendered motionless. I was thinking what the F…. what the heck is he doing? I was in shock I didn't consent to this I hadn't said, 'Yes'.

'I didn't fly to Tahoe to have sex with Mr Cosby [but] it was occurring I remember his breath, the taste of his kiss it smelt like cigars and espresso.'

She continued: 'Before I zonked out I felt pain between my legs, vaginal pain. I passed out after he entered me. It was gross. I woke up the next morning in my room I didn't know where I was.

Dickinson previously revealed dated-looking photographs of a robe-wearing Cosby she says she took in the hotel room where she claims he sexually assaulted her in Lake Tahoe

Dickinson (pictured in the early 1980s) claims that Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982 after giving her an unknown pill. Dickinson said in that 2014 interview that Cosby invited her to dinner to discuss a role on The Cosby Show and at one point offered her a glass of wine and a pill

'I had semen between my legs and I felt anal pain. I took a mirror and looked at myself I could see I was very sore. I remember having pajamas half way on with no bottoms on.'

Dickinson claimed that she confronted Cosby the next day, telling him: 'What happened last night wasn't cool. Why did you do that?'

She said she wanted to 'punch him in the face' but got no reaction from the actor.

Earlier Dickinson had told the court how she was a successful model living and working New York, when Cosby contacted her agency asking to meet.

She first met him at his townhouse on New York's Upper East Side. She went with her business manager at the time and recalled the meeting as pleasant and how Cosby gave her 'a really fat book' by Constantine Stanislavsky telling her that if she wanted to be an actress she had to learn her craft and be prepared.

Dickinson recalled: 'I was very excited. I was told Mr Cosby mentored people and he was taking an interest in me, checking me out, seeing what I was like.'

The supermodel drew laughter from the gallery and smiles from some of the jurors when she said, 'He took an interest in my singing career which never got off the ground because I can't sing.'

Dickinson waited in the courthouse halls to be called to give testimony in Cosby's trial on Thursday

Dickinson is one of five women allowed to testify against Cosby in the retrial. Judge Steven O'Neill is allowing the five women to testify for the prosecution in order to show an engaged in a pattern of behavior, using a particular modus operandi

'No really,' she added, 'I can't.'

Her next contact from Cosby came with a telephone call when she was on a modeling assignment in Bali.

She said, 'I was on the beach and I got a call . It went to the hotel phone and it was Cosby. I was like damn how the hell did you get this number? I assume he must have got it from my agent Monique Pillar.

'I was thinking to myself, 'Why is this guy calling me?' I didn't really have the self-confidence to become and actress but I really wanted it.

'He offered me a plane ticket and wardrobe to come meet him in Lake Tahoe where he was performing. To further talk about my career. At that point I really wasn't prepared I hadn't read that book.'

Again Dickinson drew laughter from the courtroom as she stated, 'He offered me transportation. He said, 'I will you fly economy', I said, 'No, you will not I fly first class'. He tried to get me to fly economy!'

Dickinson said her last memory of the night was of Cosby (pictured above in 1982) taking off his robe and climbing on top of her, and that the next morning she remembers 'a lot of pain

Dickinson said she felt confident to accept his invitation because she saw this as the next step hopefully to further her career.

She had been in Bali with her than boyfriend and had no reason to see anything sinister in Cosby's apparent generosity.

She arrived at her hotel room to find outfits laid out - ski clothes, eveningwear, daywear - and a lady from the hotel boutique there to help her select whatever she desired.

She recalled going through her vocal range with Stu B Gardener down at a sound stage before Cosby showed up to listen to her perform.

She said, 'I was hideously nervous because here was a real musician [and] I did not know what I was doing.

'Cosby walked into the room soon after and said, the conversation was like 'So how are you doing?' And Gardener was like, 'Well you see for yourself'.

'He started playing chords and I started singing and Cosby put his fingers in his ears and just grimaced [it was] like scratching fingers on the chalk board.'

Later she watched Cosby's show before having dinner with the two men where, she claims, Cosby gave her the 'small blue pill' that rendered her 'immobile' shortly after taking it.

Dickinson admitted to having problems with drugs - specifically cocaine - after somebody gave her an 8-ball of the susbstance and she became hooked.

She ultimately entered rehab in Minneapolis and though she could not recall whether this was before or after her alleged rape she said Cosby called her in rehab and sent her two dozen red roses.

'I mean who calls somebody in rehab?' she exclaimed. 'Two dozen roses? You send a wife two dozen red roses.'

In a vigorous cross-examination Tom Mesereau challenged Dickinson with the 'totally different story' she had written in her 2002 autobiography.

Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, alleges that the entertainer drugged and molested her in 2004 at his home in suburban Philadelphia. More than 40 women have accused the 80 year old entertainer of sexual assault

In that book she does not speak about having sex with Cosby at all but claims she told him she was exhausted and he slammed the door in her face.

Reading her own words back against her Mesereau told how she claimed to have returned to her room, drunk a miniature of Courvoisier 'popped a couple of Quaaludes and pondered the big questions; 'What the f*** am I doing in Lake Tahoe?''

Dickinson said that wasn't true. Mesereau responded: 'So you lied to get a paycheck?

'Don't call me a liar Sir,' Dickinson said. 'I'm not a liar.'

She claimed that everything she had done was to support her son, Nathan, now 30, and daughter, Savannah, 24.

Dickinson now married to husband, Rocky, said that as a single mother in the eighties she'd, 'sold everything from Tampax to Coca-Cola to cars to support my kids.'

But Mesereau continued to press Dickinson on the fact that she had put her name to a book she was now claiming was untrue.

Dickinson insisted, 'I told my ghost writer and publisher what really happened but they said it would never get past Cosby's legal team.

'He's a powerful guy and they told me, 'He can ruin your career.' And I knew that. I knew that since 1982 because you don't say things against Bill Cosby.'

She admitted that she had 'needed that paycheck' and said, 'You take poetic license in what you do. Today I'm sworn on a bible and I'm here to tell my true story. And because I've spoken out other victims came out about this monster.'

Cosby accuser Lise-Lotte Lublin walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse during a break from testifying on the fourth day of the sexual assault retrial

Lotte Lublin was the last of the five women to testify against Cosby in the comedian's sex assault retrial

Mesereau punctured Dickinson's claim to have found it 'very very wrong' that Cosby - a married man -should have sex with her.

He pointed out that Dickinson had dated married men, said questioned her truthfulness with: 'Did you ever tell anyone you were pregnant with Sly Stallone's child?'

Dickinson admitted that she did, despite not being pregnant with Stallone's child.

'But you weren't were you?' he cajoled.

'There were two contenders,' she said, 'I had sex with two men that month.'

'But he wasn't the father?' Mesereau pushed.

Dickinson's answer, 'No, thank God,' drew a ripple of laughter from the gallery.

Dickinson rejected the suggestion that she was speaking out for publicity, 'I don't need publicity from this. I'm happily married'.

Mesereau said that in another book, Dickinson wrote about her father trying to abuse her as a child but made no mention of Cosby.

'I locked him away in a deep compartment in side my soul,' she said. 'Abused woman do that.'

Dickinson said back in 2014 that she came forward because she believes the other victims who have spoken publicly, and that it is the 'right thing to do.'

Asked once what she would say to Cosby if she saw him, Dickinson did not mince words.

'How dare you,' she said. 'Go f**k yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot.'

But faced with him today in court she simply told of her disgust at being violated by the man she had once thought an icon.

Bill Cosby walks towards the courtroom after a break beside accusers (L-R) Lili Bernard and Caroline Heldman in the Montgomery County Courthouse on the fourth day of his sexual assault retrial

Copies of two of Dickinson's books, 'No LifeGuard on Duty' and 'Everything About Me Is Fake and I'm Perfect,' sat on Mesereau's podium marked with a forest of post-it notes as he ploughed through accounts of hedonism, drugs and sex that today Dickinson claimed were 'poetic license'.

'You talk about going to Studio 54,' he said and read aloud, 'People were f***ing like animals, there was the stink of sex, amyl nitrate and cocaine.'

Dickinson denied taking cocaine at which point Mesereau read on, '[the club owner] closed the door and lay down a f***ing ounce of cocaine, drew up lines, offered me a silver straw and I plunged in'.

She said, 'Cocaine was everywhere! This was New York in the seventies.'

She admitted to trying Quaaludes 'a couple of times' when she was a teenager in Hollywood, Florida.

But she maintained that the sections in the book in which she claimed to have taken a variety of drugs - cocaine, valium, Ativan, lithium, red pills pink pills, yellow pills, blue pills to lead to 'cosy sleep' - were 'poetic licence.'

She said, 'These books were frivolous episodics of my life and when I wanted to write the true episodes of my life I was denied.'

Vehemently rejecting Mesereau's contention that she 'lied for a paycheck' she said, 'No. I wrote this book for a paycheck and I also wrote it to get through the abuse I suffered as a child from my dad. I tried to write about the rape that happened in Lake Tahoe'.

She said that Studio 54 was a 'wild place' and 'everyone went there'.

She said, 'People were dancing people were doing drugs, having sex, drinking tea - everyone was there you could see Gore Vidal, Robert DeNiro the Prime Minister's wife Barbara Trudeau dancing on the dance floor.'

Bill Cosby arrives for the fourth day of his sexual assault trial at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday

Cosby stands accused of three charges of aggravated sexual assault against Andrea Constand

'Here's the deal,' Dickinson said with rising impatience, 'It doesn't matter what I say in my book. I have freedom of speech I can say what I like, but today I'm sworn on oath and telling the truth.

'Yes I took poetic license I needed a pay check to feed my children and I stand by that'

Dismissed from the stand Dickinson was told she was subject to recall. Uncertain what that meant she turned to the judge in confusion.

O'Neill reassured her, 'It's my job to advise you' then turned pink when Dickinson interjected, 'I think you've been great'.

As the court erupted in laughter she added: 'Law & Order is my favorite show.'

Dickinson's testimony was followed by that of the fifth and final accuser called by the prosecution, Maud Lotte Lublin.

She told of how, as a 23-year-old model in 1989 Cosby contacted her through her agency and asked for a meeting.

He told her, she said, that he would help her with her career and mentor her in acting.

She met the actor several times, she said, and he spoke with her sister and mother over the telephone.

She said he was fascinated with her mother and father's relationship as she was Scandinavian and he was African American. And she told how when he introduced her to people he did so as 'his daughter.'

But she said she was never comfortable being alone in his company again after an incident of which she has little recollection on their second meeting in his hotel suite in the Hilton, Las Vegas.

She said Cosby called her to his hotel as he had something he wished to talk to her about.

She said, 'He talked to me about improvisation in acting which I was completely unfamiliar with. He said he would walk me through some improvisations and I must have looked confused because he walked over to the bar and he poured a shot and said, 'Drink this it will relax you.'

Each count carries a penalty of ten years of imprisonment, and if convicted of all, or any, he looks set to spend the rest of his life in jail

Cosby grasps spokesman Andrew Wyatt's arm as they walk into court in Norristown on Thursday

Lotte-Lublin said she did not drink alcohol but trusted the man she saw as a father figure so accepted the shot that he'd poured her.

She accepted a second she said and then,

She said, 'Within a few minutes I started feeling dizzy. Things that he was saying to me didn't sound clear.

'I got woozy and then he asked me to come over and sit with him. He was sitting in the corner sort of stretched out across the couch so he asked me sit down basically between his knees with my back to him.

She said she did so but felt deeply uncomfortable with the physical contact. She said, 'I didn't know what to do, this was inappropriate, it was only our second meeting and his legs were touching my arms.

She said, 'He started stroking my hair and I could hear him talking but the things that were being said were muffled. I remember feeling very relaxed and I remember thinking, 'What are you doing? I don't get it. It don't understand what's happening right now. But I didn't have the power to move or get up.'

The last thing Lublin remembers is a long corridor and thinking that she dind't know the suite had so many bedrooms as she saw multiple bedroom doors.

Bill Cosby and his publicists Ebonee Benson (left) and Andrew Wyatt (right) speak to the press at the Montgomery County Courthouse during the fourth day of his retrial

She woke up, she said, two days later - at home with no knowledge of how she had got there.

She said: 'I thought I had a reaction to whatever he gave me and got sick and somehow got myself home and stayed in bed for two days.'

It was only when she read other women's accounts in 2014 that she realized something similar had happened to her after she blacked out.

'Have you ever asked the defendant for anything?' Kristen Feden asked.

'An apology,' she replied, 'Take responsibility for his actions, show some remorse.'

Speaking outside the courthouse, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt described the accusers as ‘five distractions’ with ‘poetic license and alternative facts.’

He said they were represented by ‘two of the greatest extortionists of the 21st century - Gloria Allred and her daughter Lisa Blasphemy Bloom.’

He slammed their testimonies as an Oceans 11 style script handed to the women by Allred and Bloom in an attempt to extort Cosby to the tune of $100millon.’

Judge Steven O'Neill allowed the five women to testify for the prosecution in order to show an engaged in a pattern of behavior, using a particular modus operandi.

Cosby accuser Janice Baker-Kinney walks towards the courtroom to testify in the Montgomery County Courthouse for the fourth day of the sexual assault retrial on Thursday

In the midst of testifying in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial, Chelan Lasha (pictured April 11) turned to address the comedian directly with an emotionally charged comment

Heidi Thomas arrives to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby during the retrial of Cosby's sexual assault case on Wednesday

During the last trial, only one woman, Kelly Johnson, was permitted to testify.

The jury has already heard from Janice Baker-Kinney, Chelan Lasha, and Heidi Thomas. The panel will also hear from Lisa Lotte-Lublin.

On Wednesday Baker-Kinney told how she woke up naked in bed next to Cosby with a 'sticky wetness' between her legs after going to a 'pizza party' at the home in which he was staying while performing at Harrah's casino in Reno, Nevada.

She alleged that her friend, Judy, had invited her and that she had assumed there would be others there.

It was 1982 and she was a 24-year-old bartender at the casino used, she said, to attending parties thrown by the celebrities who headlined there.

But when the women arrived she discovered it was to be just them and Cosby.

She had intended, she said, to stay for 'a beer or two and a slice of pizza' but when Cosby offered her Quaaludes Baker-Kinney who admitted to have taken one before, accepted.

Cosby, she said, pressed another into her hand and told her to that two would 'be okay.' She alleged that she 'face planted ' on a backgammon board as they played shortly afterwards.

Lasha, at the time a teenage model, sobbed, dabbed her eyes and broke down repeatedly as she told of being handed a blue pill by Cosby while suffering a cold then being assaulted in Las Vegas in 1986.

Thomas told how she was drugged and raped across a four-day period in April 1984, when Cosby lured her to a remote ranch house in Reno, Nevada, on the promise of mentoring and coaching the aspiring actress.

She recalled 'snapshots' of memory in which she woke from unconsciousness to find herself on a bed with Cosby trying to force himself into her mouth.

Thomas went public after other women started to come forward, giving multiple interviews and supporting a campaign to change the statute of limitations on rape in Colorado.

Cosby stands accused on three counts of aggravated sexual assault against Andrea Constand, 44, in January 2004.

Back then, prosecution allege, Constand took three blue pills, lost consciousness and was guided to a sofa when visiting Cosby's home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.

Constand claims that she awoke to feel Cosby's finger inside her and that he took her hand and placed it on his penis.

She later awoke around 4am, her clothes disheveled, alone on the sofa.

Andrea Constand walks to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on June 6, 2017 in Norristown, Pennsylvania

In June 2017, the first jury failed to come to a unanimous verdict on charges that Cosby drugged and assaulted Constand, 44, at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004. Judge Steven O'Neill declared a mistrial.

The retrial started on Monday after an arduous and sometimes explosive jury selection process that lasted four days and during which the defense accused the prosecution of uttering, 'racial animus.'

Prosecutor Kevin Steel vociferously denied that race played any part in either the trial or the jury selection, while the defense team doubled down on the claim that something of that nature had been overheard by one associated with Cosby's defense.

Defense attorney Kathleen Bliss appeared on the cusp of repeating the alleged slur in open court but was prevented from doing so by Judge Steven T O'Neill who decided to hear the discussion in camera.

All prospective jurors were questioned on their knowledge of both Cosby's first trial and the #MeToo movement which has fostered a very different atmosphere in which Cosby now faces his retrial for allegedly sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his home in the Philadelphia suburbs in 2004.

All but a few had knowledge of both but the jurors selected to sit among the panel of 12 all claimed to have formed no fixed opinion and clearly stated that what they had learned would not prevent them from being 'fair and impartial'.

Cosby's retrial was originally scheduled to take place last November but a complete re-shake of the disgraced actor's defense team saw that pushed to April 2018.

Well before the trial started the defense team led by Tom Mesereau, famed for his high profile and successful defense of Michael Jackson, and an already impressively confrontational Bliss, has shown themselves to be notably more aggressive than Cosby's original team of Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa.

Constand is one of more than 50 women who have accused him of sexual assaults, some dating back decades.

The court is likely to hear much of the same evidence as in the first trial, where Constand testified that Cosby gave her pills that rendered her powerless to stop him from touching her.

Each side comes to the second trial with fresh ammunition after a series of pre-trial rulings by the judge.

Cosby's new defense team has already proved more aggressive then their predecessors, Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa.

McMonagle's defense of his client lasted just six minutes after a prosecution that took six days.

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