Lawyers for Bill Cosby's
wife and business manager Camille Cosby will ask a judge on Tuesday to spare
her from answering further questions related to a lawsuit by seven women.
The women claimed the
comedian sexually assaulted them.
Camille Cosby's lawyers
have accused the attorneys for the seven women of acting improperly during a
Feb. 22 deposition about the lawsuit.
It was one of a series of
actions by women who have accused Bill Cosby of sex abuse, toppling him from
his position as one of the U.S. best-loved entertainers.
``Plaintiffs' counsel,
Joseph Cammarata, asked Mrs Cosby a litany of improper and offensive questions,
including questions regarding her own sexual relations.
She was also quizzed about
her own political commentary, and the death of the Cosby's son in 1997,"
they said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
``These questions were
irrelevant to the issues in this case and plainly were designed to annoy,
embarrass, and oppress the witness," Cammarata said.
Cammarata has previously
defended asking Camille Cosby, 72, direct questions about sex, saying it was
appropriate given the subject matter involved.
The seven women have sued
Bill Cosby for defamation, saying that he lied when he denied sexually
assaulting them.
``Are we going to talk
about the sexual history? Of course. Are we are going to talk about the extramarital
activity? Yes," Cammarata said in a January hearing.
``We already know these
subject matters," he said.
More than 50 women have
accused Bill Cosby, best known for his role as the father character in the
1980s television hit "The Cosby Show", of sexually assaulting them.
He was said to have plied
them with drugs and alcohol, in a string of incidents dating back decades.
Most of the alleged
crimes are too old to be the subject of criminal prosecution. But authorities
in Pennsylvania charged the 78-year-old entertainer with sexually assaulting a
woman in 2005.
Cosby, who is out on
bail, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
U.S. Magistrate Judge
David Hennessy will preside over Tuesday's hearing in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The judge had last week
ruled that any further depositions of Bill Cosby related to the suit, will be
postponed until after the Pennsylvania criminal charges were resolved.
Tamara Green filed the
Massachusetts lawsuit in December 2014.
She was later joined by
six other women who say Cosby sexually assaulted or abused and defamed them by
calling them liars.
Cosby has counter sued,
accusing the women of defaming him.(Reuters/NAN)
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