The Bill Cosby Factor

In the lawsuit, filed this week in Philadelphia County, former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor alleges that Andrea Constand and her lawyers orchestrated a smear campaign, including a defamation lawsuit of their own against Castor, that cost him the 2015 election to Kevin Steele Constand, Canadian police in 2005, telling them that between mid-January and mid-February of 2004, Cosby had given her pills that made her dizzy and weak, and then sexually assaulted her in his suburban Philadelphia estate. Canadian police then alerted Pennsylvania authorities. The civil case was settled confidentially and sealed on Nov. 8, 2006 Cosby paid a settlement to Constand "well into the millions of dollars," according to the Castor lawsuit filed this week. ABC

Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades“There is a toxic environment for women at this company,” Ms. O’Connor said in the letter, addressed to several executives at the company run by Mr. Weinstein.NYT