Bill Cosby found guilty of sexually assaulting 16-year-old girl at Playboy Mansion in 1975

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Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of claims of sexual assault.Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, with jurors in the civil trial ruling in favour of Judy Huth, now aged 64.A majority of jurors found that Cosby had intentionally caused harmful sexual conduct with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under the age of 18, and that his behaviour was motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor, per The Guardian.

Huth has been awarded $500,000 in compensation, considerably less than the $8million in punitive damages Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, had sought.Huth filed the lawsuit back in 2014, initially saying the incident took place in 1974 when she was 15, but later saying she had made a mistake about the year and amending her claim.

In legal filings and court testimony, Huth said she and a friend had met Cosby, then aged 37, at a park, and that they were invited by him to the Playboy Mansion.She testified that Cosby assaulted her, forcing her to perform a sex act without her consent.

Cosby was not physically present at the trial, but denied the allegations in a video deposition shown to jurors, claiming he did not remember Huth.The disgraced actor and comedian, aged 84, maintained his innocence, saying the alleged sexual abuse could not have taken place because he would not have pursued sexual contact with someone under the age of 18.