{"id":69781,"date":"2026-03-23T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/bill-cosby-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-and-ordered-to-pay-19-25m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:14:38","slug":"bill-cosby-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-and-ordered-to-pay-19-25m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/bill-cosby-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-and-ordered-to-pay-19-25m\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A California jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial on Monday, awarding Donna Motsinger $19.25m in damages. Motsinger alleged in the case that while working as a restaurant server in 1972, she was drugged and raped by Cosby after he gave her a glass of wine in his limousine.<\/p>\n<p>Motsinger sued Cosby after California amended its laws to change the statutes of limitations on when accusers can file sexual assault cases. In remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/23\/arts\/television\/bill-cosby-verdict-lawsuit-donna-motsinger.html?partner=slack&amp;amp;smid=sl-share\">after the jury\u2019s verdict<\/a>, she described the trial as a five-decade-long effort to get justice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/bill-cosby-guilty-sexual-assault-civil-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A California jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial on Monday, awarding &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/bill-cosby-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-and-ordered-to-pay-19-25m\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}