Bill Cosby at a Veterans Day ceremony, Nov. 11, in Philadelphia.(Photo: Matt Rourke, AP)
Bill Cosby is likely hoping he will eventually fall out of the news.
But it's not happening. Not yet, anyway.
The latest developments:
• NBC is dropping its deal with Cosby to do a sitcom. The project has been scrapped, reports AP.
• Netflix has nixed the special it was set to air on Nov. 28 titled Bill Cosby at 77.
• Model Janice Dickinson is adding her name to the growing list of women accusing Cosby of sexual abuse, telling of an incident in which she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby in 1982.
• An old Cosby bit about drugging women is going viral.
• A former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., is now explaining why he didn't charge Cosby with sexual assault in 2005, even though he says he thought Cosby "did it." In an interview Tuesday, Bruce Castor told Philadelphia's NBC10, "At the time I remember thinking that he probably did do something inappropriate."
So why didn't he prosecute? "I didn't say that he didn't commit the crime," Castor says. "What I said was there was insufficient, admissible and reliable evidence upon which to base a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. That's 'prosecutors speak' for 'I think he did it but there's just not enough here to prosecute.' "
• And there's Tuesday night's Don Lemon interview.
Lemon interviewed with Cosby accuser Joan Tarshis and suggested a way she could have avoided being raped, something that has outraged many on Twitter.
Here's how the interview went:
LEMON: "Can I ask you this, because — and please, I don't mean to be crude, OK?"
TARSHIS: "Yeah."
LEMON: "Because I know some of you — and you said this last night, that he — you lied to him and said 'I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you do — if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.' "
TARSHIS: "Right."
LEMON: "And you said he made you perform oral sex."
TARSHIS: "Right."
LEMON: "You — you know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it."
TARSHIS: "Oh. Um, I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn't even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have."
CNN's Don Lemon on April 16, 2014 in New York City.(Photo: Rob Kim, Getty Images)
LEMON: "Right. Meaning the using of the teeth, right?"
TARSHIS: "Yes, that's what I'm thinking you're —"
LEMON: "As a weapon."
TARSHIS: "Yeah, I didn't even think of it."
LEMON: "Biting. So, um —"
TARSHIS: "Ouch."
LEMON: "Yes. I had to ask. I mean, it is, yeah."
TARSHIS: "Yes. No, it didn't cross my mind."
On Wednesday, Lemon apologized on the air, saying, "As I am a victim myself I would never want to suggest that any victim could have prevented a rape. If my question to her struck anyone as insensitive, I am sorry as that is certainly and was not my intention."
Lemon wrote in a 2011 memoir of being sexually abused as a child.
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