Bill Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino describes learning he’ll be released from prison

Long-time Bill Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino has told of her devastation that ‘serial sexual predator’ Bill Cosby will be back on the streets after his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com Valentino, a former Playboy model said ‘I just heard and my stomach lurched. I’m so upset I can hardly find words.

‘We had just gotten news that his parole had been denied and so we felt safe and now everything is upside down.’

Valentino  was the sixteenth accuser to come forward, accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting her in Los Angeles in 1969.

She flew from her home in LA to witness both his trials and has been a vocal advocate for herself and fellow accusers.

Today she told DailyMail.com that she no longer feels safe knowing that the man she described as a ‘serial sexual predator’ is to walk free just three years after he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting former professional basketball player Andrea Constand.

Valentino said, ‘What is a woman’s worth? A legal glitch and now a serial sexual predator is free and I don’t know how any of us who have spoken so publicly can feel safe.’ 

 Long-time Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino has told DailyMail.com of her devastation that the ‘serial sexual predator’ will be back on the streets

Bill Cosby, shown in the most recent picture taken in at the SCI Phoenix in Pennsylvania, will be released from prison on Wednesday 

Valentino claims Cosby, a regular at Hugh Hefner’s club on the Sunset Strip, drugged her and a friend at dinner in Hollywood before driving them to a nearby apartment.

According to Valentino she pulled Cosby away from her unconscious friend as he tried to rape her – provoking the entertainer to launch an attack on her instead.

Valentino, a former Playboy Playmate, said ‘I just heard and my stomach lurched. I’m so upset I can hardly find words’

Cosby will be released from prison today after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction in a surprise decision, ruling that testimony from five women who told a jury that he’d abused them on separate occasions over 30 years impeded his chances of a fair trial. 

The Justices also ruled that a promise by Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor that he was not going to prosecute Cosby led the comedian to make incriminating comments in a civil deposition, that prosecutors ended up using to make their case against him.

Cosby, 83, is expected to be released from the SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township later today. 

In their 79-page ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices gave two reasons for overturning the conviction;   

1) Testimony from five women who had nothing to do with the charges but who said he’d abused them on other occasions was unfair to Cosby and tainted the jury so they were more likely to find him guilty  

2) A public remark by Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor that he was not going to prosecute Cosby led him to make incriminating comments in a civil deposition, that prosecutors later used to make their case against him.  

Cosby was first arrested in 2015 on suspicion of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2004. It was two weeks before the statute of limitations would have rendered her claims expired. 

Constand first reported her allegations to the police in 2005. It triggered an investigation which was made public. 

Cosby, 83, is expected to be released from the SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township later today

‘We had just gotten news that his parole had been denied and so we felt safe and now everything is upside down,’ Valentino added 

But on February 17, 2005, Montgomery County DA Bruce Castor Jr. announced he would not be prosecuting Cosby. Constand then filed a civil lawsuit and it was in a deposition for that lawsuit that Cosby admitted using Quaaludes on women to try to get them to have sex with him.

Over the next ten years, multiple women come forward in the press and civil lawsuits to accuse him but it wasn’t until 2015 that he was charged. He was charged two weeks before the statute of limitations would have rendered Constand’s claims expired. All of the other claims are too old to be prosecuted.

In 2018, he was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to between three and ten years behind bars. 

Constand testified at his trial along with five others who spoke about their own allegations against him. 

Those women were  Chelan Lasha, Janice Baker Kinney, Janice Dickinson, Lise-Lottw Lublin and Heidi Thomas.  

When Cosby, 83, was sentenced for his crimes against Constand, the other accusers seized it as their own justice too. The disgraced comedian always fought his conviction, despite admitting in a deposition that he used Quaaludes on women, without their knowledge, with the hope of later having sex with them. 

He was sentenced to between three and ten years but he vowed to serve the full ten because anything less would have required him to express remorse. 

Now, lawyers from other trials may seize on the Cosby decision to undo their client’s convictions. 

THE 5 WHO TESTIFIED AGAINST COSBY AT TRIAL ABOUT OTHER ‘INCIDENTS’ 

Chelan Lasha

Chelan Lasha 

Lasha testified about 1986 incident with Cosby when she was 17. 

She said he’d invited her to his room at the Las Vegas Hilton and told her he’d help her with her career. 

Janice Baker-Kinney

Janice Baker Kinney

Testified about a 1982 incident with Cosby in Reno. 

She said she was given pills, they played backgammon and she passed out then woke up the next day undressed, next to Cosby in bed  

Janice Dickinson

Janice Dickinson 

Dickinson testified that Cosby assaulted her in 1982 in Lake Tahoe. 

She said: ‘His robe opened…he smelled like cigar and espresso and his body odor. Here was America’s Dad on top of me. A happily married man with five children, on top of me.’ 

Lise-Lotte Lublin

She was 27 at the time.  

Lise-Lottw Lublin 

She testified that Cosby gave her two drinks in his hotel room in Las Vegas in 1989. She said she remembers him stroking her hair but then she passed out.  

Heidi Thomas 

Heidi Thomas

Thomas testified that she met Cosby in 1984 and that after taking one sip of wine he’d given her, she passed out. 

She said she woke up in his bed in a hotel room in Reno and that she was drowsy for days afterwards.

At least 60 women have testified against Cosby in total either in civil lawsuits or interviews 

 

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