While a jury couldn’t agree on whether Mr. Cosby drugged and then sexually assaulted Andrea Constand, more than 40 women have told similar stories about him. She and Mr. Cosby posed for a photo that Mr. Cosby’s official Twitter account made public. For three strange years, we’ve openly renegotiated our relationship with Mr. Cosby, struggling to square his television celebrity with these women’s accounts. Mr. Cosby declined to take the stand in his own defense — yet he tried to make statements in the court of public opinion. The notion that Mr. Cosby could make a moral escape through an alter ego is absurd.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2017 21:57 UTC