Bill Cosby and his team is reportedly doing whatever it takes to clean his image and that includes discrediting the women who claim that he drugged and raped them. Cosby has hired a group of private investigators to look into their pasts.
On Sunday, The New York Post reported that Cosby is paying investigators six figures. A source told the paper that one firm the Cosby Show star hired is based in Glendale, California and employs several former LAPD detectives.
“If you’re going to say to the world that I did this to you, then the world needs to know, ‘What kind of person are you? Who is this person that’s saying it?’” a source claims Cosby said in one meeting to his legal and PR teams. “You can’t say that I put something in your coffee, threw you in a cab and then you go on and live a high-profile life, a famous life and you never complain.”
That last quote is a reference to model Beverly Johnson, who claimed that she was given a drugged cup of cappuccino by Cosby in the 1980s.
Another source who claimed to have worked for Cosby said that the strategy has worked so far, since the investigators spoke to Johnson’s boyfriend, who claimed Johnson “only had good things to say about Cosby.” The source added, “We found out that Beverly never told her live-in lover of several years what she’s now telling the media and we found that to be strange.”
They have also found information to discredit Katherine McKee, an ex-girlfriend of Sammy Davis Jr. who claims Cosby raped her in the ‘70s.
While Cosby’s attorney, Marin Singer, didn’t comment on the Post’s story, Cosby’s wife, Camille Cosby, did accuse the media of not doing their research on the women who have accused Cosby of rape and assault.
Sunday’s Post report was written by Stacy Brown, the same journalist who spoke with Cosby over the phone earlier this month. Cosby told Brown that the black media will “go in with a neutral mind.” Another attorney for Cosby, John P. Schmitt, later said that the interview was recorded without Cosby’s knowledge and that Brown did not say he was writing for the Post.
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