Bill Cosby chose not to give evidence in his sexual assault retrial as his lawyers rested their case on Monday, setting the stage for closing arguments and jury deliberations.

US jurors were shown Bill Cosby's travel records as his lawyers said he never visited his Philadelphia mansion in the month he is accused of drugging and molesting a woman there.

Model Janice Dickinson has told a US jury that Bill Cosby raped her in 1982 after giving her a pill he claimed would ease her menstrual cramps but instead left her immobilised.

A day after Hollywood's first Oscars of the #MeToo era, Bill Cosby went to court in a bid to get his sexual assault case thrown out or at least stop some of his dozens of accusers from giving evidence at his retrial.

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A judge has agreed to delay the start of Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial to allow his new lawyers to get up to speed on the case.

ONE of my favourite things to do around Oscar season is to read The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot’ in which anonymous members of the Academy admit who they voted for and explain their reasons why.

Bill Cosby will be retried in November on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago, after a jury failed to reach a verdict after deliberating for six days.

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Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to break a deadlock.

Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have asked for a definition of "reasonable doubt" on their fifth day of deliberations, a day after telling the judge they were deadlocked on all charges.

Jurors in the Bill Cosby sex assault case have adjourned after considering charges that could send the comedian to prison for the rest of his life.

A conviction could send Cosby, 79, to prison for the rest of his life.

Bill Cosby acknowledged to police more than a decade ago that he fondled Andrea Constand after giving her what he said were cold-and-allergy pills meant to help her relax, his sexual assault trial has heard.

Bill Cosby's chief accuser took the stand at his sexual assault trial to tell her story publicly for the first time, saying the comedian gave her pills that left her paralysed and helpless, before groping her.

The mother of a woman who accuses Bill Cosby of sex assault has recalled the day her daughter told her the entertainer had drugged her at a hotel.

Bill Cosby has also suggested racism "could be" behind the scores of accusations against him.

Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sex assault case in Pennsylvania are fighting efforts by his defence to question 2,000 potential jurors.

Three women who accused Bill Cosby of the intentional infliction of emotional distress have had their claims dismissed.

A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge has ruled.

Bill Cosby's lawyers are pushing to have the actor's trial moved from the Philadelphia suburbs because of worldwide media reports that brand him "a serial rapist".

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A judge will let only one other accuser testify at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial to bolster charges that the actor drugged and molested a woman at his estate near Philadelphia.

A judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against comedian Bill Cosby, although he still faces criminal charges in Pennsylvania.

US entertainer Bill Cosby's lawyers are set to argue that prosecutors are reaching back to the "casting couch" era to round up female accusers and build a "stale" sexual assault case against him.

A Pennsylvania judge has denied Bill Cosby’s latest bid to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. The 78-year-old comedian must stand trial.

Comedian Bill Cosby won the right to delay providing evidence in a lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which he is accused of defaming women with public assertions that they fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Bill Cosby has lost an attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. In a ruling, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby’s appeal against that decision.

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A judge refused to throw out the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby last night, sweeping aside claims that a previous district attorney had granted the comedian immunity from prosecution a decade ago.

Bill Cosby’s top legal adviser has said he never would have let the comedian testify in a 2005 lawsuit if he thought Cosby could still face sexual assault charges in the matter.

The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to bring sex-crime charges against Bill Cosby has testified that he believes his decision is binding on his successors and forever closes the door on prosecuting the comedian.

A US magistrate will consider whether materials gathered in a defamation case filed by seven women against Bill Cosby can be kept out of the public eye.