prepared to go into sentencing. it could be a late night or come here tomorrow. >> ed lavandera, thank you. that does it for us. for another edition of 360, cnn special report of no laughing matter inside the cosby allegations starts now. the following is a cnn special report. last fall, the legendary bill cosby was restaking his claim as an a-list super star at the age of 77. >> cosby was really looking at a career rejuvenation. >> 30 years after his nbc blockbuster, the network was cooking up another cosby sitcom. netflix had plans to stream a comedy special and a 500 page biography was in new york times best seller.

>> and then it hits. >> bill cosby, under fire. >> fallout. one project after another getting pulled from em battled comedian bill cosby now accused of multiple sexual assaults. >> bill cosby mounting me. he drugged and raped me. you are such a perverted creep. >> bill cosby has -- >> the cosby allegations.

>> denver colorado, a thousand miles from los angeles. 2,000 miles from new york city. but denver is where barbara boweman decided she could grow up to be an actress. >> i was a go getter. i was adventurous. i have a passion to do this. >> by 16, she was starring in local commercials. >> come on up to colorado's favorite ski resort. we guarantee you'll notice the difference. >> and by 17, she was ready to audition for a super star. bill cosby. >> he was america's favorite dad. wants every week. >> cosby was friends with bowman's talent agent, joe farrell. >> can you tell me about your agent, can you describe her? >> yes known in town as the

barracuda. >> means i work very hard, protect my people and being a good businesswoman, then i accept it. her talent agency, jf images, had a big reputation. and barbara bowman had what it took to be a star. >> what is your view of barbara? >> very dedicated, focused, bright. naive, young, sweet. >> what might have her future looked like? >> extremely bright. >> was she ambitious and determined? >> extremely and she wanted to win. >> wanted it so badly that for three years, starting when she was just 14, beauman endured the

criticism that the boss, joe farrell, regularly dished out. >> and she would come in there and lay down the law. you think this is tough? wait until you get the next level. you think i'm tough? get used to it now. >> bowman's shot at the next level came in 1985. bill cosby was coming to denver and her agent said he was scouting for potential stars. >> so when he came in to town and she selected me, you know, it was a big deal. >> a big deal because cosby was the quintessential success story. rising from the projects of philadelphia to the heights of hollywood. >> you don't get larger, more successful than bill cosby unless you're barack obama. >> bob hubert covers cosby for philadelphia magazine. >> he was the first leading black man on a network back in the mid '60s.

>> cosby's performance in "i spy" won him three consecutive emmys but that was nothing compared to what came next. >> by 1985, he had become a television juggernaut with the cosby show. >> what you need to do now is go to the next level if you want back. >> what's that? >> begging. >> for 8 seasons on nbc, he starred at the lovable dr. cliff huxtable, patriarch of a family that defied racial stereotypes, revived the sitcom drama and mega bucks in syndication. >> it made him a huge, hung sger not just in the african-american world but whites as well. >> it was to audition to the

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bill cosby has earned millions of fans, hundreds of millions of dollars and the admiration of many, including colleagues like felicia rashad. >> he's a genius. he is generous. he's kind. he he's. and the popularity soaring. and tapped by her agent to audition for him at a denver nightclub. she calls he asked about her childhood. >> the fact that i really was a vulnerable kid, no dad. no father figure in my life and wanted to take on that role. and it was an honor to be there

and i wanted him to care about me like a father would care about a daughter. >> then, she says, it was showtime. to see how well this budding actress could perform. >> he wanted me to do an acting improv exercise where i was intoxicated. he explained it would be a little uncomfortable, if we're really authentic in our acting, we'd have to tap in and let my guard down and trust him. he had me close my eyes and proceed to act drunk. and he's behind me and she's stroking my hair and stroking my neck and, you know, kind of rubbing my shoulders and getting me to relax and meanwhile, his hands are moving down on to my breasts and at one point, i went like this and started to move his hands away and said, no, you

can't do that. you need to relax. >> for a 17-year-old, aching to be an actress, she said it was confusing. >> you know, i wanted to trust him. i really, really wanted to trust him. >> bowman's agent, joe farrell, is not retired. she declined to comment with cnn but in 2006 she told the denver post i don't know the truth of it. it's mind boggling. i don't set up interviews in bars and it makes me sad because my reputation has always been golden in this city. i have never seen cosby to be anything but a gentleman. >> a father figure in my life. >> that's what bowman said she wanted to believe too. >> and he was going to groom me, mentor me, and that he had a lot he could offer me. >> bowman said cosby soon invited her to see some of his shows. there was seattle and then reno. there, he pressured her to

perform a scene in his hotel room. >> he turned out the lights and he made me close my eyes. and went through an exercise, a trust exercise. >> that was sexual? >> that was sexual. >> he had his panlts off? >> yes. >> and were you -- >> or down at least. >> had his hands down and forced your hand on him. >> yes. >> and were you drugged? >> i don't know, but i know that i was frigid and frozen with fear and just went into a zone. >> so violated. i was dus guisgusted. i felt dirty. >> why did you not tell anyone? >> i was full of shame and fear and disgust. it was just too far fetched for

anyone to believe. >> how were you able to get past that to see him again? >> a coping mechanism, a survival mode kicked in. i was just so shocked that i wanted to just believe it didn't happen. >> it was way back when no one was suing anybody. after working as a model for jm images, diane mcfarlane knew how the acting business could be. >> there was confusion, maybe everybody has to do a little something. so it was terrifying and you wouldn't know what to do. >> mcfarland said bowman would eventually confide to her. and what she came to you, what were the conversations like? >> i remember she was traumatized from sexual abuse. i don't remember the details. i just remember the tears and holding her and telling her she'd be okay.

>> mcfarland wishes she did more to protect her. >> i would have lost my job. i'm not excusing it. i'm a different person now. >> bowman took classes and prepared until her agent, jo faerl, declared her ready for new york. she was looking to always graduate her talent into the big leagues. so bowman left college for the big apple. >> just getting off the plane was like, oh my gosh. i'm really here. >> bowman said her agent and cosby paid for her apartment and classes at this acting school. >> i felt, you know, that this was an amazing opportunity. >> an opportunity that, with hard work, might lead to a role on tv's number one show. >> was the thinking that bill cosby was recruiting to be on the cosby show? >> yes, not necessarily like i'm

taking you out of denver or taking you to new york and you're going to be on the show but that was all part of the menu of items that were going to be available. >> success for the actress also meant success for the agent. >> millions of young women want to be actresses and i've got a team of people behind me that believe in me, that care about me. i felt lucky. >> but bowman said that feeling would change. drastically. when we come back -- >> i was drugged. i was assaulted. and i was raped. hey mom, you want to live by the lake, right?

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i was put into an apartment and i was supposed to just stay on the straight and narrow, go straight to acting classes, come straight back. >> the rude awakening came here, bill cosby manhattan brown stone. >> when was the last time you saw this that night? >> cosby invited her over what was supposed to be tutoring. >> i had one glass of wine, went upstairs, started the acting exercise and that was it. i just remember putting the script down because i was feeling fuzzy, dizzy. it was like a lobotomy.

where you're there, you're awake, but you're not there. you're vacant. just baffled state of mind. next thing i know, i'm in the bathroom. and i am throwing up. >> bowman said she didn't know why she was throwing up. cosby would tell her she drank too much but she says she never even finished her glass of wine. >> so as i'm throwing up over the toilet and he's right here and the robe is, it's tied, but it's open. and the boxer shorts are open. and his penis is out. and brushing against my back. >> your pan tties are on you or over you?

>> they're to the side and all messed up and i knew what happened. >> how did you know what happened? >> because a woman knows. and i was wet and dirty. i was drugged. i was assaulted. and i was raped. >> this time bowman said she mustered the courage to tell her agent, jo farrell, back in denver. >> and she did nothing. and insinuated that that didn't happen. what are you talking about? how could you say such a thing? >> said that conversation never happened. telling the denver post the women she represented never said anything to me about this. but back in new york, barbara

bowman said she was distraught. >> and i was so freaked out and getting that response was crushing. >> bowman said she turned to a lawyer. >> he didn't believe me. and called my claims preposterous. that's bill cosby you're talking abo about. that's all it took, one more person not to believe me. >> bowman did not file a police report. after that, why didn't you sever all contact with him? >> it wasn't like that. i was a prisoner. i was completely and utterly dependent. >> dependent and with no choice. when she says cosby and her agent moved her to long island 25 miles away from manhattan. and why did they move you out

here? >> i don't know. you know, i felt like they were hiding me in this tiny little world and i was isolated from everybody. one of the rules was, no visitors. it was very restricted. >> restricted, isolated, and controlled, she says. >> it was like i was always on edge. >> it was while you were living here that atlantic city happened. >> yes. bill cosby invited me down to the shore. he was performing down there. >> she went. once she got to her hotel room, bowman said she realized her luggage was missing and started to panic. >> i felt very vulnerable and just, i wanted my stuff and i started to call from his room. because he called me down to the room and as soon as i picked up the phone and started calling concierge, he started to just go crazy. and slammed the phone down and

told me not to worry about the luggage and turn the lights out. >> bowman said all she remembers is waking up the next morning in her room undressed with her suitcase. >> i get a call from cosby and summons me. >> what did he tell you? >> say i embarrassed him, the whole hotel was going to say, what are you doing with a 19-year-old girl and the suite, on and on. >> cosby then became violent. as she described in a phone call to her best friend, denise victor. >> she told me, it's bill cosby, it's bill cosby. >> he threw me down on the bed. jumped on top of me. put his arm under my throat.

>> he kept saying, he's ana cabrera ma-- an animal. >> and kicking from behind like this. and he's struggling with all his might to get hiss pants off and undo his belt buckle. >> say, i fought him, i fought him hard. >> the belt buckle is clinking hard and he adjusted his grip and went for my pants. and then i wiggled out and it was like, it was like a light switch just clicked and it was like he snapped into reality. and kind of caught himself, that he was creating this huge scene. he was seething, finger in my face and just called me a baby. he kicked me out and said, you're done. that's it. and i literally went back to denver with the clothes on my

back. >> it was over. bowman tried to pick up the pieces of her life. she restarted her career with roles in several films. >> oh, i am checking it out. >> she tried to put bill cosby out of her mind for the next 20 years. >> i thought i was the only one. >> that is, until 2005. when another woman took on bill cosby in court and bowman decided to join the fight. >> i said, i will be damned if i will sit in silence anymore. i will do whatever it takes to let people know that that woman is telling the truth. you can call me shallow...

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to succeed in a tough business, tried to put cosby out of her mind. she felt she had to. >> was scared to death and in my world, i didn't think i had anybody else who was listening. >> 20 years would pass, from the time bowman said she was raped until 2005. when she read about another woman accusing bill cosby of sexual assault. >> i really believed i was the only other one. i thought, oh my god, another woman and i became enraged and said, i will be damned if i will sit in silence anymore. i will do whatever it takes to let people know that that woman is telling the truth. because it happened to me. >> that woman was andrea constand. she was director of operations

for the women's basketball program in temple university at philadelphia. she met bill cosby, a temple graduate and a big man on campus. >> we know he was an active alum and that included the women's basketball team. >> diana moskovitz from dead span said friend of cosby. >> sometimes dinner just the two of them. just thought it was someone who wanted to mentor her. >> in 2005, staid cosby sexual assaulted her at his home in suburban philadelphia this year before. bruce castor was the county prosecutor at the time. >> the impressions the detectives gave me about andrea was she was clearly telling the truth but that her recollection was fuzzy. >> a fuzzy memory he said is consistent with victims of date

rape drugs. >> we actually were building the theory that she had been drugged. >> cosby's lawyer called the accusations utterly preposterous and truly bizarre but cosby agreed to talk to detectives. >> cosby believe felt he was going to be arrested and was frightened. >> in the end, the prosecutor decided there was not enough evidence to bring charges. >> what i think and what i can prove are two different things. >> undeterred, constand played out her accusations for everyone to see. >> she's so important because she was the first woman to come forward and say with her name. >> she claimed cosby up invited her to her home offering career advice. >> she was thinking about a career change, very nervous about it.

wanted his advice on it and talked about how nervous she is and she offers her three gills. said this will help calm you down. >> constand said they were an herbal medication but in court response, said they were one and one-half tablets of ben driadry. >> and she trusted him. >> she trusted him. he's bill cosby. >> claimed after taking the pills, she was only barely conscious. >> she felt diz zy. she felt weak. there wasn't much she could do. >> constand cosby led her to a sofa. >> takes her to the sofa. he touched her breast, touches her vagina, and eventually digitally penetrates her. >> denied drugging or sexually

assaulting her. >> he is telling the media this is all made up, the family is in it for money, trying to, you know, extort money from him. >> as part of her civil suit, andrea constand was lining up one witness after another. >> when i finally got in touch with her attorney and said, my name is barbara bowman and it happened to me too. and she told me, you're not the only one. >> far from it. in all, 12 women listed in court documents as jane does had similar accusations, long past the statute of limitations but nonetheless, willing to testify about an alleged pattern of wrongdoing. most of the women wanted to stay anonymous but a few went public. >> he produced two capsules. >> california attorney tamara green on the teaoday show. >> groping me, handling me,

touching me. >> he said it did not happen. >> i didn't deserve that. >> former, beth, talked to the philadelphia news. >> he hurt me in the most wicked, horrible way. >> spokesmen for cosby declined to comment and barbara bowman in philadelphia magazine. >> what happened was horrible, painful, and frightening. >> cosby's lawyer called bowman's claims absolutely untrue. but bowman, green, ferrier, and the others would not back down. >> i want people to know that we are real people out here and it is happening. and i am going to let people know. >> let people know by testifying in andrea constand's civil case. but when we come back, constand versus cosby takes an abrupt turn. >> and it just seems to disappear into the ether, almost.

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by 2006, four men publicly accused cosby of drugging and sexual assaulting them. andrea constand and her lawsuit against cosby. >> he took me in. >> tamara green, beth ferrier, and barbara bowman. allegations like these would bring down most public figures. but not bill cosby. >> 6500 word piece for philadelphia magazine thinking with all these women claiming they have stories similar to andrea constand's, this thing is going to explode. >> but it did not. at least not in 2006. because cosby and constand reached an out of court settlement, terms never made public and when the lawsuit ended, so did the media interest. >> a little media attention, and wouldn't go away. and the mainstream wouldn't touch it. nobody would touch it.

>> cosby maintained the image as america's favorite dad. >> you could watch cosby show reruns and never had any idea it happened. >> remained silent about the allegations. >> your 13-year-old got no business seeing himself as a man who can drop a seed and walk away. and somehow call himself a man. >> he toured the country urging african-americans to take personal responsibility. >> you were dealing drugs. to each other. you were impregnating our 13, 12, 11-year-old children. to each other. >> he built these controversial lectures as callouts. >> i'm calling you out. and i'm holding you accountable. >> there's a pretty big irony he's lecturing african-american

communities about their behavior and what they need to do, and at the same time, if these allegations are true, certainly hiding behind his own behavior. >> for the next eight years, cosby was mostly out of the entertainment spotlight but the accolades continued. >> bill cosby wouldn't go off into the sunset unless there was something to happen to trigger a change. >> that trigger would be an up and coming comedian named hannibl burris. he called out cosby in a stand-up routine. >> i can talk down about you with a successful sitcom. great, bill cosby. but you rape women, turn the crazy down a couple notches.

>> he accuses bill cosby directly of being a racist and changed everything. >> it changed everything because on that evening, a reporter from philadelphia magazine was in the audience recording this video with his phone. >> great, but you rape women, bill cosby. >> comedian hannibal burris. >> soon, team cosby also using social media inviting fans to create memes or classic captions from his web site. >> what a huge miscalculation. did they think they were going to combat hannibal burris and people saying nice things with these old photos of bill cosby? >> whether or not it was a tactical move, backfired. people use memes to the rape allegations. barbara bowman sees the irony.

>> it took a man to crack a joke on stage in a comedy routine calling bill cosby a racist for people to go, wow, maybe there's something to this. >> a month after the burris video, bowman writes a piece for the washington post online. bill cosby raped me. why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? >> so joining me now, barbara bowman, alleges she was raped by bill cosby. >> bowman tells her story on cnn. >> i have been speaking out publicly and trying to have this story believed and heard since 2004. >> rape allegation. >> now the media are finally picking up the story. >> allegations against bill cosby. >> the smithsonian where bill and his wife, camille, displaying their african art. >> this give tops me no

pleasure, mr. cosby. >> there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days. you're shaking your head, no. i'm in the news business. i have to ask the question. do you have any response to those charges? shaking your head, no. >> the associated press also tries to get a response. >> i have to ask about your name coming up in the news recently regarding this comedian. >> no, we don't answer that. >> cosby berates the reporter for even bringing up the subject. >> and i would appreciate if it was scuttled. if you want to consider yourself to be serious, that it will not appear anywhere. >> it didn't play well, didn't look good for bill cosby. >> under mounting pressure, cosby's camp responds to the renewed allegations. the fact they are being repeated does not make them true. mr. cosby does not intend to

dignify these allegations with any comment. one thing is clear. reporters who, for years, failed to ask cosby the hard questions, are now paying attention. and this time, the story is not going away. when we come back -- >> he drugged and raped me. >> more than two dozen women come forward. >> bill cosby appears to think that rape is a joke. ♪ how did i set a new personal record today? i started with a test run. then i got a solid night's rest in a great room.

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♪ i'm able to the do this, because i have very good survival skills. >> for more than a decade barbara bowman has been fighting, tellinging a story that few people wanted to hear. >> i feel sad por me. >> in the fall of 2014, she pushes, again. this time with a first-person account h in the washington post. >> it is no that it is just me. >> and a round of tv interviews. >> victims don't come out. they don't talk. they are ashamed. they are embarrassed. >> every bit of media that i did was directed at victims. i practically pleaded for them to come forward. >>allegations of multiple women. >> when i came too, i was naked.

>> and then there was an avalanche that women said that cosby sexual li ly assaulted thn the '60s and the '70s and the '80s and the '90s. >> and then he pushed h me against the seat. >> and he was leaning me forward having sex with me. >> and the stories justp keep coming. >> and several claim that they were drugged. >> i was feeling more and more groggy. >> including former playboy playmate victoria val en tee know. >> and he was forcing me to have oral sex and when he was done, he got up and started to walk out. >> it went blank. >> and including former talent secretary kristina ruehli. >> he pulled me toward his penis, and then pulled me ahead.

>> cosby says that these events are absurd. and he says this is becoming ridiculous, and it is illogical that so many people would have done nothing, and said nothing, and made no claims to law enforcement if they had felt that they had been assaulted over so many years. as for cosby's comeback, the damage is done. >> we believe the women! >> netflix shelves his comedy special, and abc can abandons the plan for a upcoming sitcom, and the tvland an abbans do the the re-runs of "cosby show." >> and nobody wanted to be associated with a serial rapist. >> and he finally breaks his

silence, but he says, a guy does not have to answer to innuendo, and people should fact-check, and a guy should haven't to answer with that. people should fact check. people shouldn't have to go through that the and shouldn't answer to the that. >> i couldn't move or say anything. i felt something warm on my legs. >> in the weeks that follow, the number of accusers grows to the more than two dozen. >> i knew that he had drugged me. >> cosby was on top of forcefully. >> i woke up in a bed naked, bruised, and he was laying next to me. >> and bill cosby declined our request for an interview, but some who know him well have spoken outt in support. actor ben vereen on "entertainment tonight." >> i love the man and bill, we are praying for you. >> what i saw was fun, and

nothing inappropriate. >> and bill cosby's tv wife felicphylicia rashad on "abc w of american culture that formed part of american legacy, and it is difficult for me to watch this legacy be erased as the if it never happened. >> and his real wife of more than 50 years camille cosby released this statement, the man whom i fell in love with and continue to love is the man you know through his work. he is a kind man and generous man and funny man, and wonderful husband and father and friend, and he is the man that you thought that you knew. a different man has been portrayed in the media over the last two months, and it is a portrait of a man i do not know. a portrait that mrs. cosby says

is painted by irresponsible media. none of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim, but the question should be asked, who is the vick timt. -- who is the victim? cosby's legacy now hangs in the balance. >> professionally, you can't deny success. you can't deny his career. you can't deny the importance of the tux tabl show, and you have to look at the man bill cosby and look at the fact of everything that he is accused of doing. >> and because of the myriad of frg ha he is accused of doing, and the statute of limitations, it is likely that he he will never face charges, so the show must go on. >> no more cosby. >> and some of the shows have been canceled. but others, he has gotten

standing ovations. for barbara bowman, the applause is hallow. >> i have to imagine that somewhere in his gut, there is a sinking feeling that it is over. >> in our interview, she shared details of the past 30 years, and she was stoic until the last few minutes of the interview. >> i am tell mig story, and now it is told, and i am so sad for it, but it validates all of us to know that there is similarities, and knowing in the heart that did it happen? did it really happen? yes, it really happened. and it is over. it is over.

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