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Bill Cosby guilty - Convicted of drugging and molesting a woman

Published:Thursday | April 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
AP
Bill Cosby looks around before he leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse, Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. After decades of whispers, lawsuits, investigations, and close calls – and a multitude of women who lost hope that anyone would ever believe their word against that of America’s Dad – Cosby could be headed to prison at age 80 for the remainder of his life.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP):

Bill Cosby was convicted on Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-in-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America's Dad.

Cosby, 80, could end up spending his final years in prison after a jury concluded that he sexually violated Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

He stared straight ahead as the verdict was read but moments later lashed out loudly at District Attorney Kevin Steele after the prosecutor demanded that Cosby be sent immediately to jail. Steele told the judge that Cosby had an airplane and might flee.

Cosby angrily denied that he had a plane and called Steele an "ahole," shouting, "I'm sick of him!"