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How Bill Cosby’s legacy came crashing down


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HE WAS known as “America’s dad”.

Bill Cosby was one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century in America.

The 80-year-old icon built an entertainment empire and an army of fans, with a career of five decades of stand-up comedy, TV shows and blockbuster films, winning numerous awards.

He broke barriers when he became the first African-American person to play a lead character in a TV drama, the 1965 action-adventure series I Spy, and he was the first to win an Emmy.

The Cosby Show, which was America’s number one sitcom for five consecutive seasons, has been credited with changing how African-Americans were seen in wider society.

He was also known as one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, with an accessible family-friendly style.

But it all came crashing down as guilty verdicts on three counts of sexual assault were read out in court.

“(Cosby) is nothing like the image that he plays on TV,” prosecutor Kristen Feden said in court on Tuesday. “In fact, he utilised that image and cloaked himself so that he was able to gain the trust, gain the confidence of these young women so he could strip them of their ability to say no, administering an intoxicant the same way he administered an intoxicant to Andrea Constand.”

Cosby now faces up to 10 years behind bars on each of the three counts of aggravated indecent assault and a fine of up to $US25,000 ($A33,000) on each.

The reckoning comes following the disgraced comic’s second trial, and after just over 14 hours of deliberations by a panel of five women and seven men.

His chief accuser, Andrea Constand, bravely took the stand to publicly relay for a second time her recollection of the horrifying 2004 attack.

And it’s cost him everything he ever built for himself.

“The hallowed status that Cosby occupied as one of the world’s most beloved entertainers has been irrevocably tarnished,” notes CNN.

“His legacy of laughs died in the courtroom,” said Good Morning America’s Joi-Marie McKenzie.

For many African-Americans, it was difficult to stomach that someone who opened so many doors for black people could be so repulsive.

“I haven’t wanted to delve too deeply into the allegations or even closely follow the trial,” opinion writer Eugene Robinson said in The Washington Post last year. “I didn’t want to deal with the fact that a man I admired so much was accused by dozens of women of being a serial sexual predator.”

“There are a whole lot of brothers out there who still ... hold on to their exalted view of the man who ‘redefined blackness’,” wrote Wilbert Cooper in Vice News. “They cling to ‘America’s Favourite Dad’ even though the comedian admitted to keeping Quaaludes to help him get laid.”

A number of Cosby’s former cast members have even publicly defended him.

Phylicia Rashad, who played Cosby’s wife in The Cosby Show, went as far as to say she believed the women’s allegations against him were an orchestrated attack to destroy his legacy.

“This is not about the women,” Rashad told ABC News last year. “This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of legacy.”

Cosby’s court case marked the first celebrity trial since the #MeToo movement began.

The significance of the outcome is not just in his status, but in the fact that someone of such status was successfully brought down by a legal system that tends to favour powerful celebrities.

As we speak, many other alleged abusers are still going about their lives. Former CBS anchor Charlie Rose — who has been accused of sexual assault on multiple counts — is even said to be launching a new TV series featuring prominent men who were accused of sexual misconduct.

In an opinion piece, American columnist Anushay Hossain notes that this is the start of a long journey to overhaul a legal system that often tends to favour celebrities, at the expense of women without money or status.

“Women of colour and poor women who work in low-income jobs also deserve access to justice, and to have their stories garner just as much attention,” she writes.

“What we learned today is that the stories and truths of women who have suffered and been abused for too long in silence can demand and receive a justice as powerful as the men they are challenging.

“And perhaps the most powerful thing of all is the message this verdict sends to little girls around the world that things are changing, your voice matters, and the law just might be able to stand up for you, too.”
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