Ah yes, Bill Cosby...the most influential black man in television and entertainment. One word from this guy and an aspiring actor and actress could sky rocket to stardom in the 80's and 90's. Spokesperson for JELL-O and all around father figure that even the black community made fun of. How many black men and women had a lawyer for a mother and a doctor for a father, but hey, that was Cosby and it was his era.
Apparently men in this position realize it and if he made sexual advances toward you as a woman, and you said anything about it, your career might never see the light of day. So he drugged women and likely raped them for almost three decades. (He's innocent until proven guilty, but there is a transcript that does admit to this behavior). The message that this man gave to anyone that sought his assistance or advice was, "don't make waves for me or I'll destroy your life"...ie, "The Cosby Effect". So many women knew this to be the case that at least 50 or more of them refused to press charges on this icon for fear of their own life. I know that that's like.
I am absolutely living the "Cosby Effect" with this investigation. My team started with myself, my friend Benjamin, my friend Martin and Jonathan Mendenhall working with a woman in the cove, Barbara trying to bring an end to electronic harassment. I added Christopher Monti and Benjamin added his family. I didn't realize it then, nor would I have cared, but his father is very influential in the entertainment world. I thought, when I found out, that it would be a huge plus for us. That was six years ago and since then not one bit of his influence has assisted me or our team with anything substantial. He refuses to talk to me in person or even say thank you for helping. What he has done is allowed other people on to this team that did nothing to help our team. In fact, these people bad mouthed us and told people to "not get involved with me". The person that said this is by far the one person that nobody should get involved with...Laurie's obsession. I'm the guy Laurie hates the most, but she is the one that Laurie would kill for. Getting near her is a huge mistake.
Unfortunately for me, Benjamin's brother is a womanizer and is easily led by two women that joined my team under the auspices of "knowing me" but then force everyone to believe that nobody should help me...ON MY OWN FUCKING TEAM. The biggest win was taking my friend's father and cajoling him into believing that he should help these two women and not anyone on my team that collected all of the evidence. You know that the brother said? He secretly wanted to take all of our evidence and give it to these women to see if he could get them some kind of deal before anyone on my team would get any assistance from his father or law enforcement. OUR FUCKING EVIDENCE! That's the kind of person Benjamin's brother is. He's affluent, privileged, arrogant and not a very good attorney. The only problem is that he is the favorite son of this man. Benjamin is not his favorite. He's second chair therefore all of Benjamin's friends won't be considered until his brother helps these awful women...with our evidence. That's not acceptable.
This is the "Cosby Effect", if I write something like this, then the father will shun me then act like, "I was just about to talk to you in person, but NOW I WON'T" after six fucking years? That was the bullshit lie that all of us believed. This man has never done a single thing for me but make my boyfriend promise to never talk to me until he gave the okay. That was his number one son's idea. Can't imagine why? I think that what the eldest son and father have done is one thing...they have blatantly told me not to make any waves for them. Guess what? I don't give a fuck what they say. Fuck em both. They never intended to help me and they never will. Now that criminal charges can be faced by these women that have been dismissed as well as his eldest son, I'm supposed to feel like I was "just this close" to having a meeting with him...like in a fucking gnat's ass that was going to happen. Cosby doesn't work with anyone Cosby doesn't want to and Cosby don't want to work with me.
Fuck off.
