Well, we finally know how Bill Cosby was getting access to the Quaaludes that he was allegedly using to drug and rape women throughout the ’70s and ’80s. The Washington Post has gleaned yet another nugget of info from the recently surfaced 2005 Pennsylvania deposition, in which Cosby admitted to having drugged women.
Supposedly, Cosby had been getting prescriptions from Dr. Leroy Amar, a “gynecologist to the stars,” who was known for his shady practices of handing out drug prescriptions to Hollywood’s elite, as well as botched plastic surgery procedures. Cosby claims that he had requested the prescriptions due to a bad back, but that was obviously not why he wanted them.
“Did he know when he gave you those prescriptions that you had no intention of taking them?” a lawyer asked Cosby in the 2005 deposition.
“Yes,” the entertainer replied.
“Did you believe at that time that it was illegal for you to dispense those drugs?”
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
Amar had his medical license revoked in 1979, later getting it back in 1985 under the condition that he could no longer perform surgery. One of the attorneys representing the victim claimed that Amar had confronted Cosby over his use of the Quaaludes after he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a singer named Tamara Green, whom the doctor had introduced Cosby to.
In the deposition, Cosby repeatedly says he did not know Green and had no recollection of meeting her during a singing audition that she said had been arranged by Amar. The attorney goes on to say that Amar was furious to later hear from Green that Cosby had given her wine and made her feel “very uncomfortable” by asking her to speak song lyrics directly into his face.
“In her presence, Amar confronted Cosby, almost coming to blows,” the attorney recounts. “He warned Cosby never to do anything like that again to Green.”
Amar died in 2002, three years before the deposition took place, so there was no way of confirming this story. Still, this all contributes to the big picture of just how nefarious this man is.
(Via Washington Post)