Editing Bill Cosby (section)

=== 1965–1996 allegations ===
The earliest allegation against Cosby dates back to December 1965: in 2005, Kristina Ruehli came forward as [[John Doe|Jane Doe]] #12 in the [[Andrea Constand v. Bill Cosby|Andrea Constand]] case and alleged that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her at that time in his Beverly Hills home. Further, Ruehli said she had told her boyfriend about the incident, and had told her daughter in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--no by-line.--> |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Cosby accuser: I had 2 drinks, went blank |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2014/11/24/newday-cosby-accuser-kristina-ruehli.cnn/video/playlists/new-day-top-clips/ |access-date=December 30, 2015}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, Joan Tarshis told freelance reporter John Milward about an alleged sexual assault by Cosby. Milward did not write about the allegations.<ref name="washpost">{{cite news |last=Roig-Franzia |first=Manuel |date=November 22, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby's legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-cosbys-legacy-recast-accusers-speak-in-detail-about-sexual-assault-allegations/2014/11/22/d7074938-718e-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html |access-date=September 23, 2015}}</ref> In 1996, ''[[Playboy Playmate|Playboy]]'' [[Playboy Playmate|Playmate]] [[Victoria Valentino]] gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Cosby. The interview was conducted for an exposé on the lives of ''Playboy'' models, which was never published.<ref name="washpost" />

After the allegations resurfaced in 2014, [[Wendy Williams]] recalled that during [[The Wendy Williams Show|her radio show]] in 1990, she referred to sexual assault allegations against Cosby that had been published in the ''[[National Enquirer]]'' tabloid. Williams said Cosby called her boss in the middle of the broadcast demanding that Williams be fired.<ref name="ferrier_enquirer">{{cite web |date=November 21, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby Allegedly Tried to Get Wendy Williams Fired for Mentioning the Rape Accusations in 1990 |work=VICE |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-time-bill-cosby-tried-to-ruin-wendy-williamss-career-for-bringing-up-rape-allegations-allegedly-878/ |access-date=November 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K12WIUL-NtQ&t=19m44s ''The Wendy Williams Show'' (November 19, 2014)], clip telling her story about her 1990 ''Dishing The Dirt'' radio show (on 98.7 Kiss in New York) where she had discussed Cosby allegations as reported in ''The National Enquirer'', with Cosby personally phoning her station manager demanding that she be fired.</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUtiT9MMCEQ&t=3m51s 'Bill Cosby Guilty'], clip from ''[[The Wendy Williams Show]]'' (published to YouTube on April 27, 2018).</ref>