35 of Cosby's accusers speak to New York magazine

Thirty-five of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of rape or sexual assault have been photographed and interviewed by New York Magazine.

The striking cover story features women aged from their 20s to 80, and include supermodels Beverley Johnson and Janice Dickinson, waitresses and journalists.
Mr Cosby denies any wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crime.
Barbara Bowman told the magazine: “I felt like a prisoner; I felt like I was kidnapped and hiding in plain sight.”
She continued: “I could have walked down any street in Manhattan at any time and said: ‘I’m being raped and drugged by Bill Cosby,’ but who the hell would have believed me? Nobody, nobody.”
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The online New York Magazine article – which appeared to have crashed the website on Monday morning – features many similar stories, accompanied by six video interviews and portraits and group photographs by Amanda Demme.
“The group of women Cosby allegedly assaulted functions almost as a longitudinal study,” said the Magazine, “both for how an individual woman, on her own, deals with such trauma over the decades and for how the culture at large has grappled with rape over the same time period.”
It continued: “In the 60s, when the first alleged assault by Cosby occurred, rape was considered to be something violent committed by a stranger… But among younger women, and particularly online, there is a strong sense now that speaking up is the only thing to do, that a woman claiming her own victimhood is more powerful than any other weapon in the fight against rape.”
Lili Bernard, an actress who appeared in The Cosby Show, told the magazine: “In the early 1990s, in my mid-20s, Bill Cosby mentored me. He gained my total trust and then he drugged me without my knowledge.
“He raped me. I wouldn’t call him crazy… I felt that he was very much in control of his behaviour.”