Name: Linda Joy Traitz

Age: 64

Occupation: sales

Year of Alleged Assault by Bill Cosby: 1969

Traitz met Cosby while working as a waitress at Café Figaro in Los Angeles. The comedian offered to drive her home one night, but instead he took her to a beach. They parked and he pulled out a briefcase full of pills. He told her to take one to relax, but Traitz declined. He became angry. He groped her and tried to climb on top of her. Traitz pushed Cosby away, and fended him off. “I was assaulted, but I wasn’t raped,” she says. She came forward on Facebook in November 2014 after seeing comments from people attacking one of Cosby’s victims. “I blamed myself at the time. I thought I did something wrong. This happened when I was 18. It took me a long, long time to come to terms with the fact that it was him, it wasn’t me. You have to pick yourself up and keep moving. If you don’t, you become a victim for the rest of your life. Nobody wants that. Life has not been easy for me. I’ve had a little bit of a hard time. I had addiction problems as I got older, in my 40s. It got me. It brought me to my knees.”

Photo: Amanda Demme