constand filed a civil suit. barbara bowman heard the news and called constand's attorney. >> i said, i believe your client because it happened to me. >> 12 other women also came forward and spoke to constand's attorney all saying they had been sexually assaulted by bill cosby. >> i cried when i found out there were 13 women because i didn't think there were 13, i didn't think there were 2. i thought there was one, me. >> all 13 agreed to tell their stories under oath anonymously. they became known as the jane does. "dateline" talked to a small group of them, rebecca kuper neil, patricia sawyer, christina rulely and beth. >> thank you for being here. >> they say bill cosby drugged them or sexually assaulted them or tried to. rebecca said she was working as a massage therapist in las vegas when cosby raped her in the 1980s. >> what are you doing? stop it. he's like, i'm not going to hurt you. just calm down. >> patricia said she was assaulted in 1978 and again in 1980. >> why would you go back knowing that somethi

constand filed a civil suit. barbara bowman heard the news and called constand's attorney. >> i said, i believe your client because it happened to me. >> 12 other women also came forward and spoke to constand's attorney all saying they had been sexually assaulted by bill cosby. >> i cried when i found out there were 13 women because i didn't think there were 13, i didn't think there were 2. i thought there was one, me. >> all 13 agreed to tell their stories under oath anonymously. they became known as the jane does. date line talked to a small group of them, rebecca kuper neil, patricia sawyer, christina rulely and beth. >> thank you for being here. >> they say bill cosby drugged them or sexually assaulted them or tried to. rebecca said she was working as a massage therapist in las vegas when cosby raped her in the 1980s. >> what are you doing? stop it. he's like, i'm not going to hurt you. just calm down. >> patricia said she was assaulted in 1978 and again in 1980. >> why would you go back knowing that somethin

vehemently denies. >> it's he who did nothing and i was the one who achieved justice for andrea constand when i forced cosby to testify and presumably made her a very wealthy woman. >> reporter: keith jones, nbc 10 news. >>> tomorrow we could learn what pennsylvania's attorney general will do once the suspension of her law license takes effect. a spokesman says kathleen kane is preparing an e-mail that will detail her role once the suspension takes effect on thursday. the state court took away kane's law license after she was charged with perjury. prosecutors say she lied. >>> a popular restaurant is set to reopen two months after it was shut down. the owners of yangming opened their doors to show off the $500,000 renovation they completed. they replaced woodwork, carpet, and repainted and cleaned the restaurant from top to bottom, they say. yang mink was shut down in office after inspectors found a roach infestation. managers say the age of the building and a lax pest control company were partly to blame. >> reporter: when did you become aware that there was a problem. >> before there w

but this summer, long excerpts from the constand deposition came out.n it cosby was asked, when you got the quay lewds, was it in your mind that you were going to use these drugs for young women that you wanted to have sex with? yes. he was asked, did you ever give any of the young women the quaaludes without their knowledge and he refused to answer. >> i knew in my heart that he gave me something. >> linda brown was a 21-year-old model when she says she had dinner with bill cosby. she says he raped her later that night after drugging her. >> i don't know if it was quaaludes, but i know i was drugged. >> it was refreshing. okay, he's basically admitting that he did that to us. >> linda ridgeway whitedeer tells a different story. she says there was no drugs involved when cosby assaulted her. linda, an actress, says she met cosby for an interview. minutes into the meeting, he did something so shocking this grandma struggles to describe it. >> he came around and gently got ahold of my hair. when i looked up, i was staring at his genitals. he shoved his pen

when i came out in 2005 to support andrea constand i found out 13 of us, and i thought it with was the number. up to that point, i thought that i was the only victim and so i was quite shocked an surprised to to find out 13 of us, and 10 of whom were jane does, and i made it the mention to come out publicly in the hopes to empower one woman, and get one of the women to feel safe enough and courageous enough to come out of hiding and pub luckily share their story in support of me and andrea and the two other women who were public. i had no, no idea where we would be a year later. and it is, i has been quite an interesting remarkable journey. i am so proud of all of the women who have had the courage to come out, and i'm hoping that the ones who have chosen not to at this time will change their mine. >> and so we had that picture up of 40 women, and listen your journey, because we have been on a journey with you, because every time that the allegations are made, we have had to go into vetting mode and we have done it 40 time, and i know that you have brought up 57 different cases that th

but this summer, long excerpts from the constand deposition were released.it cosby was asked, when you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind you were going to use these quaaludes for young women you wanted to have sex with? answer, yes. he was asked, did you ever give any of the young women the quaaludes without their knowledge and he refused to answer. >> i knew in my heart that he gave me something. >> linda brown was a 21-year-old model when she says she had dinner with bill cosby. she says he raped her later that night after drugging her. >> i don't know if it was quaaludes, but i know i was drugged. >> so the significance of hearing in his own words. >> it was refreshing. okay, he's basically admitting that he did that to us. >> linda ridgeway whitedeer tells a different story. she says there was no drugs involved when cosby assaulted her. linda, an actress, says she met cosby for an interview. minutes into the meeting, he did grandmother, four decades later, struggles to describe it. >> he came around and gently got ahold of my hair. when i looked up,

andrea constand, the woman whose drugging and sexual assault allegation against the disgraced comedianas now filed a lawsuit alleging defamation against a former district attorney who in 2005. >> pam: as the insider's michael yo explains. cosby was on the minds of a lot of people last night in hollywood. >> reporter:pam, i was with his tv son, >> reporter:malcolm jamal warner who says the show stands on its own. >>yo-lets go back to the co sby show it was groundbreaking >>1:17:51 to see what is happening to that image what do you think about that >>mjw- 1:17:56 its interesting because i got so much feedback from people who can seperate the contrvoversy from the show. people are still proud of the show and always comment to me on the positive impact that its had on their lives. >>hi dad hows it going? >>fine >>mjw-we've got a generation of people who went to college because of that show. weve got a generation of people who became doctors and lawyers because of that show. that you cant take away man. while malcolm jamar warner never addressed the bill cosby allegations directly at the pa