Bill Cosby is blasting his insurance company for quietly settling another civil lawsuit - this one brought by a woman claiming the comedian doped and groped her in the Playboy Mansion.
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Details of the deal between insurance giant AIG and accuser Chloe Goins were scarce on Tuesday.
"All I can say on the record is that Ms Goins is satisfied with the settlement," her lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, told the New York Daily News.
Cosby, meanwhile, said he never authorised AIG to cut a deal with Goins.
"AIG's conduct is despicable, and I can only imagine how terribly they're treating their policyholders, who don't have my means and my resources," Cosby said in the angry statement, according to spokesman Andrew Wyatt.
"AIG continues to act egregiously by settling these heinous claims without my knowledge and/or consent; and AIG continues to show they're complicit in this scheme to destroy me and my family," he claimed.
"I encourage all of AIG's policyholders to drop this pathetic insurance company quickly, before they destroy you and your family.
News of the settlement with Goins came two weeks after AIG settled with seven women who sued Cosby for defamation in federal court in Massachusetts after his camp branded them liars over their claims of sexual assault.
Goins, 28, stepped forward in December 2014 with claims Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008, when she was 18 years old.
After speaking with police in January 2015 to file a report, Goins sued the "Fat Albert" star for sexual battery.
Cosby, 81, has denied the allegations through his spokesman and lawyers.
According to Goins, she met Cosby at a private party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 and consumed a drink that Cosby provided to her.
"After taking a few sips, she started feeling woozy," Kuvin previously told The News. The lawyer said Cosby then guided Goins to a bedroom in the mansion where she blacked out.
"She woke up some time later, all of her clothes off, with Cosby down by her toes. He bit one of her toes, causing her to wake up. Her breasts felt wet and sticky, like someone had been licking them," Kuvin said.
The lawyer said Goins demanded to know what was happening, and that's when she allegedly saw Cosby pull up his pants and bolt out of the room.
Prosecutors ultimately declined to pursue any charges. They said the two potential crimes in the case would have been misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor indecent exposure.
"Both of these offences occurred in 2008 and are barred by the statute of limitations and as such any consideration of a criminal filing is barred by law," the prosecutor who filled out the rejection worksheet wrote. "Therefore prosecution is declined."
Cosby, 81, was sentenced in September to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University staffer Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
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