Jury selection begins Monday in a new trial against Bill Cosby—a trial that could be one of the last legal proceedings the once beloved comedian faces.
Judy Huth, the plaintiff in the case, alleges that Cosby groped her while at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, 50 years ago when she was a teenager. She’s now suing him for sexual battery in a civil case. He has denied all the allegations.
Huth initially filed her lawsuit in 2014, as dozens of accusations against Cosby began to surface. However, once he was arrested in 2015 for sex crimes, Huth’s and other civil cases were put on hold.
Last year, Cosby’s 2018 criminal conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Now Huth’s lawsuit is back in court, after Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan said that the case can move forward. Here’s what to know.
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Huth, 64, was a teenager when she met Cosby at a Los Angeles park in 1975, when he was filming a movie. Initial court filings said that Huth was 15 when she met Cosby and that the incident happened in 1974, but in a more recent court filing, Huth says she believes she was 16 at the time. Cosby allegedly invited her and a friend to his tennis club.
Read more: Time
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