Producer Alan Ladd’s Wife Accuses Bill Cosby of Drugging, Raping Her in 1969
Source: Variety
Cindra Ladd, a former film industry exec and wife of producer Alan Ladd Jr., is the latest woman to accuse Bill Cosby of raping and drugging her years ago.
In a first-person article published by Huffington Post, Ladd recounts her experience with Cosby when she was 21 and working for producer Ray Stark in New York. Ladd asserts that after becoming friendly in a nonsexual way with Cosby, she was heading to a movie with him one evening when he gave her a pill that he said would help her headache.
For more than 45 years I have tried to recall exactly what happened that night. To this day it remains a blur. I have a vague recollection of feeling like I was floating while walking through Times Square and watching some kind of Japanese samurai movie with him. I dont remember where the theater was nor very much of the evening, Ladd wrote. What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friends apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual. It was obvious to me that he had had sex with me. I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed.
Ladd wrote that it never occurred to me to contact law enforcement, given Cosbys stature as an entertainer and in an era before date rape was recognized as a crime. She told her husband about the incident nine years ago, when another woman accused Cosby of similar acts, Ladd wrote.
Read more: http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/producer-alan-ladds-wife-accuses-bill-cosby-of-drugging-raping-her-in-1969-1201415339/
Former Hollywood Exec Accuses Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault
http://www.people.com/article/cindra-ladd-bill-cosby-rape-accusations
louis-t
(23,297 posts)This guy has been getting away with it for 45 years. That's the amazing part.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Or so say Cosby apologists.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)$$. Attention , career move, story to sell etc. she is not the first who really seem to have no other possible angle except to speak the truth.
Think of how many others for what ever reason can't come forward! This guy was sick and serial at this pt of knowledge
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)many women were willing to essentially enable him to do it to other women by not reporting it and now because of how long ago the majority of these cases date back to he probably wont ever see a day in prison so justice probably will never be done.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:22 PM - Edit history (1)
for this pervert, THAT is a form of justice in itself
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)Mr. Cosby has long been an advocate of reason and a voice raising the concerns of black America.
That he was a scumbag all along has done damage in more ways than one.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)....like, advising young black men to pull up their pants while he was.......drugging and raping women
honestly, he has to be true sociopath
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)He was a leader in black America and has advocated for our people in public while he abused women in private.
NJCher
(35,730 posts)I don't think he was ever seen as a voice of black America, except by right wingers who applauded him.
Cher
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)You're either delusional, kidding yourself or out of touch.
candelista
(1,986 posts)Cosby has had plenty of admiring black audiences.
juajen
(8,515 posts)He was constantly being held up as a person of color to emulate. I know, I'm old enough to remember.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He's the "whitest" black comedian that ever lived. Even Flip Wilson is like Lenny Bruce compared to Bill Cosby.
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)You're either delusional, kidding yourself or out of touch.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I see. Hence, I can allege someone is a spokesperson for the white community, and should anyone tell me differently, I can simply say (or more accurately, merely allege) they are delusional, kidding themselves or just out of touch...
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)as Pat Boone is to Rock and Roll. Aside from the lascivious jokes about slipping women Spanish Fly, of course.
Dick Gregory, Cosby is not.
It would be even sweeter if his wife divorces him after these seemingly weekly cases dwindle.
How many times have we seen the old "stand by your man" routine take this route when the heat dies down?
Cher
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)long ago these cases are I doubt that will ever happen.
Heck the majority of them are so far back that they cant even go after him for civil damages either so they cant even get justice that way.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)certainly not optimal
the man creeped me out even when he was doing his Dr. H schtick - I've never been able to stand him
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)It always seemed a bit odd that to me he specifically chose Gynecology as Dr. Huxtable's specialty on that show. I can't think of another sitcom where a lead doctor character wasn't anything other than a general practitioner of some kind. You know, so that they could interact with a variety of wacky personalities of all different ages and genders.
According to at least one account, Coz would set up a "scene" in an OB/GYN's office that his prospects could then "audition" in. That is really messed up.
crim son
(27,464 posts)by an acquaintance or a person you admire? I'm thinking no, or you would not use the "enable" word so flippantly... I'm tempted to say, ignorantly.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)reporting it when it happened to them.
If even one had come forward say back in the 80s even it could very well have saved other women from having to go through it but they didnt.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Uh, no.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)Look up the word enabler and it fits
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enabler
one that enables another to achieve an end; especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)to take on one of the most powerful people in their industry at the time. They did what they needed to do for their own safety and healing.
Little known fact: having some creep force their dick into you doesn't make you responsible for anything they do with their dick from that day forward.
The sort of gaslighting and victim blaming you're engaged in is exactly what keeps victims quiet. And I suspect that's the point.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)doing to other women.
Dems2002
(509 posts)Date rape wasn't even considered a crime in 1969. Hell, it pretty much isn't now. This was a man with power and money. I do not blame his victims, I blame him and the other individuals who knew and covered it up for him. It's shocking. But fundamentally, the charges have been around for a while and it took a man believing them to make them go viral. Remember that.
blackcrow
(156 posts)You have no idea what it's like for a rape victim who reports the crime, do you.
Not only is it another terrible ordeal, but the chances are good the police or district attorney will do nothing, years ago the victim's reputation would have been ruined, likely she'd have lost her job and often any chance at marriage. And she would have accomplished nothing. No one would have taken her word against Cosby's.
You must be young and completely clueless. And your post is unintentionally, I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, vicious.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, vicious..."
I think you're being far too generous to individuals who cower behind the cover of implication...
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)underpants
(182,878 posts)Wow.
madokie
(51,076 posts)and if or when he's found guilty he needs to be removed from society, like in a jail cell somewhere.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I know I'll never watch his sorry ass again
cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)You don't think maybe it has happened more recently? Maybe someone will come forward. What is the statute of limitations anyway?
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)But thats just the current law if say back in the 70s or 80s the statute was shorter then that may be the one that applies because I dont believe they can make it retroactive though I am not 100% sure on that of course.