{"id":34167,"date":"2014-12-06T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34167"},"modified":"2014-12-06T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:02:06","slug":"crew-removes-graffiti-on-cosbys-hollywood-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/06\/crew-removes-graffiti-on-cosbys-hollywood-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew removes graffiti on Cosby’s Hollywood star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“RAPIST” written multiple times on comedian Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywoon Walk of Fame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES — Graffiti commenting on sex abuse allegations against Bill Cosby were removed Friday from the comedian’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n

The word “rapist” was scrawled on Cosby’s star three times, according a photo that Houston television station KRIV-Fox 26 said it received from a viewer and posted on its website Thursday. The comedian has been accused by more than a dozen women of drugging them and sexual abuse, but he has never been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which manages the stars embedded in several sidewalks in Hollywood, wrote in a statement that the stars were intended to celebrate the positive contributions of its inductees.<\/p>\n

“When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways then to vandalize a California state landmark,” the chamber wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Cosby received his star in 1977. It’s placed near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue.<\/p>\n

A Southern California woman sued Cosby on Tuesday, claiming he forced her to perform a sex act on him with her hand in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion when she was 15 years old. The incident occurred around 1974, according to the sexual battery complaint.<\/p>\n

Cosby’s attorneys denied the accusation in a court filing Thursday and sought to dismiss the case. Their motion called Judy Huth’s lawsuit extortion and said she attempted to sell her story to a tabloid a decade ago. They also cited discussions with her lawyer in which her price for silence rose from $100,000 to $250,000 in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

The renewed accusations of sexual misconduct against Cosby have cost him projects on NBC and Netflix, a trustee position at Temple University, and have forced the cancellation of numerous shows on his comedy tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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