Bill Cosby Steps Out For First Time In Six Months, Wife Camille Remains By His Side

The cou­ple was spot­ted out­side their New York City home on Sunday, with Camille cling­ing to her hus­band’s arm. The 78-year-old come­di­an was dressed down in a white sweat­shirt with the words “Hello Friend” print­ed on it, while Camille wore a long grey coat. Hello Friend is the name of the foun­da­tion the Cosbys set up in hon­or of their late son, Ennis Cosby, who was killed in a failed rob­bery attempt in 1997.

The sight­ing marks the first time in six months that the come­di­an has been pho­tographed. The last pub­lic sight­ing of Cosby was in May dur­ing his appear­ance at Selma High School in Alabama, where he pro­mot­ed education.

Over 50 women have now accused the embat­tled come­di­an of sex­u­al assault. He has denied all wrong­do­ing and has nev­er been charged with a crime.

Last December, Camille defend­ed her hus­band of over 40 years, after the num­ber of women accus­ing him of sex­u­al assault began to grow.

“A dif­fer­ent man has been por­trayed in the media over the last two months,” she said in the state­ment. “It is the por­trait of a man I do not know. It is also a por­trait paint­ed by indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions whom many in the media have giv­en a pass. There appears to be no vet­ting of my husband’s accusers before sto­ries are pub­lished or aired. An accu­sa­tion is pub­lished, and imme­di­ate­ly goes viral.”

“None of us will ever want to be in the posi­tion of attack­ing a vic­tim. But the ques­tion should be asked — who is the victim?“she added.

In November 2014, super­mod­el Beverly Johnson briefly talked about Camille, after she claimed Cosby drugged her in 1986 at his home when she came to read for a part on The Cosby Show. Johnson said that when she called to con­front the come­di­an using the pri­vate num­ber he gave her, she was shocked to hear Camille answer the phone.

“A lit­tle shocked, I quick­ly iden­ti­fied myself to her in the most respect­ful way pos­si­ble and then asked to speak to Bill,” Johnson wrote for Vanity Fair. “Camille polite­ly informed me that it was very late, 11 p.m., and that they were both in bed together.”

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Cosby recent­ly had a legal win on Nov. 13, when Judge Debra Katz Weintraub tem­porar­i­ly stayed an order for him to sit for a depo­si­tion in accuser Janice Dickinson’s defama­tion civ­il suit against him. Cosby’s depo­si­tion was orig­i­nal­ly sup­posed to take place on Nov. 23 in Boston, Dickinson’s attor­ney, Lisa Bloom,exclu­sive­ly told ET ear­li­er this month.

Cosby was already ordered to give a depo­si­tion on Oct. 9 in the case of Judy Huth, who claims in a law­suit that he molest­ed her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15. It was ruled the details of that depo­si­tion are to be sealed from the pub­lic until Dec. 22, so the court can decide which por­tions may or may not be kept confidential.

Read more here :Bill Cosby Steps Out for First Time in Six Months, Wife Camille Remains By His Side by Antoinette Bueno 3:50 PM PST, November 24, 2015