Camille Cosby's Unsealed Deposition Reveals She Refused to Answer Many Questions

Camille Cosby's deposition has been unsealed despite her attempts to block it.

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After several failed attempts to block her deposition, Camille Cosby finally sat down with lawyers in February and April of this year to answer questions in relation to the defamation suit filed against her husband, Bill Cosby. Seven women are suing Bill for defaming their names after he called them liars in their claims that he sexually assaulted them. He’s also been formally charged with sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand and pleaded not guilty.

During the deposition, Camille was questioned about her husband’s extramarital affairs and whether or not she believed he "acted with a lack of integrity" during their 52 years of marriage. She was even asked if he used his celebrity "to manipulate young women," CBS Newsreported. Now, new details from that heated deposition are coming to light and, for the most part, Camille remained tight-lipped.

When asked about the trust funds Bill allegedly set up for the women he slept with, she refused to answer citing marital privilege. She would go on to use that throughout the deposition, with the exception of when she was asked whether or not Bill’s affair in the '70s that may have resulted in a baby was a big deal back then. "It was a big deal then, yes," she answered.

More than 50 women have come forward to accuse her husband of rape over the last 40 years. More recently, a sexual battery lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claims Bill forced a then 15-year-old Judy Huth to perform a sexual act of some kind on him at the Playboy Mansion back in 1974. Hugh Hefner was recently deposed for the case but his testimony remains sealed for now. On Monday, both Hefner and Cosby were listed as defendants in a case filed by former Playboy model Chloe Goins who says Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008.

Cosby maintains his innocence throughout all of this. 

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