Jewel Allison says Cosby forced her to touch his genitals after a dinner at his home.
Former model Jewel Allison fully embraced the Bill Cosby mythos — family man, knit sweaters, pudding pop pitchman — until the night she accepted his dinner invitation.
By the time she headed back home, sexually abused and vomiting in the back of a cab, Allison harbored no more illusions about the oft-honored comedian.
“We may be looking at America’s greatest serial rapist that ever got away with this for the longest amount of time,” Allison told the Daily News last week. “He got away with it because he was hiding behind the image of Cliff Huxtable.”
The Brooklyn woman, after a quarter-century of denial, talked about her trip in the late 1980s to Cosby’s East Side brownstone.
Her revelations came as a former Cosby insider told The News exclusively he delivered monthly payouts to eight women in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Frank Scotti, 90, said he believed the Emmy-winner paid the women because he was having affairs with them.
Allison said she was introduced to Cosby by her agent, Sue Charney. Charney is credited with discovering supermodel Janice Dickinson, who also claims that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her.
Cosby was hosting a dinner at his house, and Charney told Allison to seize the opportunity. Cosby prepared the meal and led the conversation, and Allison barely noticed when nobody else showed up.
It was her birthday, and she thought Charney might have arranged the dinner as a gift.
“He said he wanted to help models and actors who were well-educated, who could do something else,” she recalled. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is Bill Cosby.’”
Cosby, now 77, followed up with phone calls to her home. “I love your laugh,” the family man told the single woman.
Allison, among a bevy of alleged victims who came out with their stories in the past couple of weeks, finally accepted another dinner invitation to Cosby’s home, where it was again just the two of them. He produced a vintage bottle of wine, supposedly a gift from Chrysler exec Lee Iacocca.
“I was really impressed,” she recalled. “He poured me a glass.”
The wine tasted awful, and Allison suddenly felt woozy and ill. Reeling, she sat on a couch. Cosby then lifted her up and leading her into another room, she said.
“He said, ‘Look in the mirror, and see the glow in your face,’” she remembered Cosby saying creepily. “I looked at myself and I didn’t look good. My eyes were all over the place.”
Allison said Cosby grabbed her hand and placed it on his genitals.
“That was my sexual assault by this comedian,” she said. “He turned me around and said, ‘Let’s get you home.’ At the door, he gave me a very hard embrace and a hard kiss.”
A yellow cab was waiting, and the driver never blinked as Allison vomited in the back seat all the way home. Cosby had covered the cab fare.
While Allison was appalled by what happened, Cosby later invited her to spent the night at his suburban Philadelphia home. She declined.
“There’s no such thing as America’s Dad,” she said. “There’s just a man named Bill Cosby. He’s a very sick sociopath.”
Allison’s account of her alleged sexual assault at the hands of the funnyman has the same threads as many of his other victims, including Angela Leslie.
The former model from Michigan revealed to the Daily News last week that Cosby invited her to Las Vegas. In his hotel suite, she said, Cosby gave her a drink and slipped naked into bed. Then he allegedly grabbed her hand and used it to masturbate.
“I felt so used,” Leslie, 52, said. “I felt that he didn’t get what he wanted, and he threw me out. ... He didn’t make me feel special in any way. He said, ‘Come here, put your hand here, do this.’ ”
Cosby’s lawyer, Martin Singer, did not return calls for comment on Sunday.
Allison said the decision to go public with the twisted sexual encounter was not easy after all this time.
“I didn’t want to take this black icon down,” said Allison, who has degrees from NYU in film and television. “This was my Bill Cosby.
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