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Cosby Accuser Recounts Alleged Chicago Attack From 1979

Cosby Accuser Recalls Alleged Incident In Chicago

(CBS) -- Thirty-five women on the cover of the newest issue of "New York" magazine have one thing in common: They all accuse Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them.

And one of those women say her encounter with Cosby happened here in Chicago.

WBBM Newsradio's Steve Miller spoke with her.

It was 1979, at Chicago's Whitehall Hotel, where then-Playboy Bunny manager PJ Masten was supposed to meet Cosby, whom she had known for about five years. She says she thought they were meeting to have dinner.

He was drinking with some other men in his room and asked her what she would like to drink.  She recalled requesting a small serving of Grand Marnier.

"That's the last thing I can remember until 4 o'clock in the morning," Masten says. "I woke up in bed, naked, bruised, really bruised and battered. He was laying next to me, naked.

"And I slithered out of the bed to get my clothes. I didn't want to wake him up. I was scared to death."

Later, she says, she told her supervisor at Playboy what had happened.  Her supervisor noted Cosby was friends with Playboy boss Hugh Hefner and no one would believe her.

Masten's interview is one of several featured in "New York" magazine.

Cosby has said sex he had with women was consensual.

 

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