Instagram/Bill Cosby & Andrea Const Celebrity Jury awards $19.25M to woman in Bill Cosby sexual assault case from 1972. Verdict finds Cosby liable for assault and battery with malice. March 24, 2026 AceShowbiz - A jury has awarded $19.25 million to a woman who accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1972, decades after she first came forward as Jane Doe Number 8 in a 2005 lawsuit connected to former Temple University athletics director Andrea Constand's case against the entertainer.