Name: Linda Brown

Age: 67

Occupation: former model

Year of Alleged Assault by Bill Cosby: 1969

Cosby went out with a 21-year-old Brown after Brown’s modeling agent arranged it.  Brown saw Cosby perform, and they went to dinner afterward. Cosby said he would take Brown home, but before he dropped her off, he said he needed to make a short detour to his hotel room because he had a gift for her. At the hotel room, he handed her a record and a soda, asking if she’d wait while he made a phone call. She took a sip of the soda and blacked out. She woke up in bed, naked, where she says Cosby began to sexually assault her. She came forward in February 2015. “ I felt like a real-life blow-up doll for him. I kept it a secret because I was so ashamed and embarrassed about allowing something this horrible to happen to me. Originally I thought I was the only one to fall into that trap. When I realized that not only wasn’t I the only one, but he did this to many, many women, I felt the need to come forward and help report them because there is strength in numbers.”

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