26-year-old Chloe Goins, who dropped a federal lawsuit against Bill Cosby just three months ago, has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual battery by both Cosby and Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner.
The suit stems from an incident in the Playboy Mansion in 2008. MSN reports that:
“With somewhat graphic descriptions of how the now much accused Cosby allegedly plied her with drink, drugs and then, while she was ‘unconscious’ assaulted and ‘molested’ her, Goins’ lawyer Spencer Kuvin of West Palm Beach, Florida, and new attorney Kevin Kensik of Rolling Hills Estates, CA, on Monday cited other cases that have emerged of past supposed Cosby incidents at the Mansion to claim host Hefner ‘was familiar with Defendant COSBY’s habit and act of intoxicating young women and spending the night with them while at his residence.’ While California laws says prosecutors have a decade to pursue criminal charges in a rape case, the statute of limitations is about half of that on assaults such as the one Goins has said occurred in 2008.”
Hefner’s alleged prior knowledge of Cosby’s preference for drugged women to assault is the basis for his inclusion in the case. According to the lawsuit:
“His act of inviting or housing and introducing Defendant COSBY, the Defendant HEFNER knew or should have known had a history of severe and serial sexual battery and or possibly rape of women was negligent at the very least, and Defendant HEFNER knew or should have known such actions would lead to harm of his invitees and Plaintiff.”
Goins part in the original lawsuit, filed along with 50 other women who say that Cosby assaulted them, was difficult to prove since witnesses named by Goins refused to corroborate her story. Whether those witnesses truly say the incident did not happen or were simply too afraid to come forward is not clear. That lawsuit by Goins came to no fruition because:
“‘The incident as described by Jane Doe #2 [Goins] included two potential criminal offenses: misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor indecent exposure…Both of these offenses occurred in 2008 and are barred by the statute of limitations and as such, any consideration of a criminal filing is prohibited by law. Therefore, prosecution is declined.'”
Watch Goins tell her story in her own words below:
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