\u201cShe knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby,\u201d the suit said.<\/p>\n
Attorneys said Cosby, 88, did not remember any sexual contact with Motsinger, but that any that had occurred had been consensual.<\/p>\n
The jury took three days to deliver its verdict, ordering Cosby to pay US$19.3m, a figure that could increase if they add punitive damages.<\/p>\n
The case was heard in the same courthouse where a 2022 jury ordered Cosby to pay US$500,000 ($853,000) in damages to Judy Huth after finding that he had molested her in 1975 when she was just 16 years old.<\/p>\n
The man formerly known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Dad\u201d was jailed in Pennsylvania for drugging and molesting a woman in a separate criminal case in 2018, but was freed in 2021 when his conviction was overturned on a technicality.<\/p>\n
Cosby was a towering figure in late 20th century American popular culture, including for his starring role in The Cosby Show, which ran from 1984 to 1992.<\/p>\n
Dozens of women have accused Cosby of being a calculating, serial predator who plied victims with sedatives and alcohol before assaulting them over four decades.<\/p>\n
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