Bill Cosby made a stunning admission under oath — acknowledging he repeatedly obtained quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women in hopes of having sex with them.
The revelation comes from sworn deposition testimony Cosby gave in a civil lawsuit filed by one of his accusers, Donna Motsinger. In the sealed, recently obtained testimony, Cosby admitted he refilled a recreational prescription for quaaludes at least seven times and said the pills were never meant for his own use.
According to the deposition, Cosby said he received the original prescription from a gynecologist during a poker game held at his Los Angeles home prior to 1972. The doctor, Leroy Amar, was described in court records as a close friend of Cosby’s at the time. Amar later lost his medical license in California in 1979.
Cosby testified that he never took the quaaludes himself, stating instead that he intended to give them to women. The pills, he said, were round and white.
The admission plays a central role in Motsinger’s lawsuit, which alleges Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1972 while she was working as a server at the well-known Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California.
Motsinger claims Cosby gave her a pill she believed was aspirin. After taking it, she says she began drifting in and out of consciousness and later woke up in her home wearing only her underwear, with no memory of how she got there.
Cosby is currently attempting to have Motsinger’s lawsuit dismissed, while she continues to fight to keep the case alive in court.
Though Cosby has long denied wrongdoing in public statements, his own sworn testimony — acknowledging a deliberate pattern of acquiring drugs to give to women — remains one of the most damning admissions tied to the long list of allegations that have followed him for years.