Deadline reported on Wednesday that Bill Cosby’s talent agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), no longer represents the comic, who continues to face allegations of rape from dozens of women.
“We do not represent him at this time,” one CAA official told Deadline in an article published Wednesday.
Although Cosby is still listed as a client of CAA on IMDB.com, the agency ditched him before the latest revelations that in 2005, the comedian admitted in a sworn deposition to obtaining Quaaludes to sexually assault women.
According to the site, the star parted ways with the agency sometime late last year, around the time that new questions had emerged about Cosby’s history with women and several more accusers stepped forward.
I don’t understand this. 'Ludes? You’d be waking your “partner” up every thirty seconds. What fun is that?
I’ve got a recliner that I’ve nicknamed “Quaalude” because I fall asleep as soon as I sit down.
Cocaine is much better!
At least that’s what I’m told, having no experience with such things myself.
If he’d only slept with Ryan Seacrest…
One things bothers me about the whole Cosby saga.It is the phenomenon I refer to as ‘piling on’ I see so often in Asian countries. A rich or powerful man or woman, usually a politician or businessperson, indulges in bad conduct. During the height of their power no one says anything. However, after some huge mistake where they fall from grace, people can’t wait to say, “I knew he/she was a jerk too!”.
I know that it is difficult (and risky) to challenge a powerful person. However, why didn’t any of the accusers go public in a big way when (assuming that all the accusations are true) it could have saved future victims? What is the point of waiting until the powerful man/woman has fallen, and all the damage has been done? What will we learn from what will no doubt be an endless torrent of articles denouncing Mr. Cosby?
He hasn’t really had that much of a career for a while now so they weren’t making money on him.
THIS was just the icing on the cake.
Because of the shame associated with being raped. Our society shames anyone who is raped and often protects the rapist from prosecution. Even if the rapist is prosecuted, people often go after what the woman was wearing, what the woman was doing, was she drinking, did she willingly take the drugs, did she provoke the man’s arousal and then play coy? As a woman, coming forward to expose a rapist, even one who is not famous, is tricky to the point of being nearly impossible largely due to the fact that men act as if any woman who comes forward must be lying or provoked the attack. This is despite the fact that only 6% of accusations are false.
The same holds true for child molestation survivors. We had a case here in Vermont where one girl finally came forward and said that her teacher had molested her, and it broke open the entire case. The man, who will likely die in prison, had molested at least seven children over the years, and they finally came forward to say so, but the shame associated with rape, which we transfer to any victim of rape no matter how young, often leads to silence.