Bill Cosby was fined almost half a century later for sexual harassment

A US court has fined 84-year-old Hollywood actor Bill Cosby in a sexual harassment case nearly half a century later. According to the news a...

A US court has fined 84-year-old Hollywood actor Bill Cosby in a sexual harassment case nearly half a century later.

According to the news agency 'Reuters', a court in Santa Monica, California, USA, in a civil case filed in 2014, sentenced Bill Cosby to a fine of US 500,000, or about 100 million Pakistani rupees.

The case has been heard several times in the last seven years and during this time many other women have also filed cases against the actor and he has also been sentenced to jail including facing the courts.

Bill Cosby was sentenced by a Montgomery County court in the US state of Maryland in December 2018 to three to 10 years in prison and a fine for raping a woman and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison until July 2021. ۔

He was later fined ڈالر 500,000 by another court for sexually harassing a woman in 1975.

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The conviction was filed in 2014 by a woman named Judy Hath, who claimed that she was sexually harassed by the actor in 1975 when she was just 16 years old.

The woman, now 67, told the court during the hearing that she had been invited by Bill Cosby to her home in 1975 with a friend, after which the actor raped her.

The woman had told the court that the actor had molested her without her consent and pressured her to have sex.

During the hearing, three of the nine members of the jury asked the woman to provide evidence to substantiate her allegations, but most of the members later ruled in her favor and fined the actor.

On the other hand, the actor's lawyer has expressed surprise over the verdict and announced to file an appeal against it, while the actor had termed the allegations of sexual harassment against the woman during the hearings as fabricated and said that he had accused the woman. Don't know