Embattled comedian Bill Cosby has hired a battalion of private investigators to dig up dirt on his many accusers.
The 77-year-old come-dian, who is fighting an onslaught of accusations that he sexually assaulted more than two dozen women over many years, is paying six-figure fees to private investigators for information that might discredit his alleged victims, reported New York Post.
Multiple sources confirmed that Cosby, through his Hollywood attorney Martin Singer, is implementing a scorched-earth strategy in which anything negative in his accusers’ pasts is fair game. “At least one California-based firm with a half-dozen former LAPD detectives on staff is muckraking for Cosby,” a source said.
“If you’re going to say to the world that I did this to you, then the world needs to know, ‘What kind of person are you? Who is this person that’s saying it?’?” Cosby told his legal and public-relations team at a recent meeting, according to an insider who was present
. “You can’t say that I put something in your coffee, threw you in a cab and then you go on and live a high-profile life, a famous life and you never complain,” Cosby said, referring to supermodel Beverly Johnson, who claimed Cosby spiked her cappuccino during a visit to his home in the 1980s, the source said.
The insider said they have also been able to dig up information on another accuser — Katherine McKee, an ex-girlfriend of the late Sammy Davis Jr who said Cosby raped her in the 1970s.
The comedian’s investi-gators were immediately able to dig up internet posts in which McKee allegedly praised Cosby’s stand-up act and wrote glowingly of him. They also discovered a published interview in which she said she is “used to lying.” (PTI)
