A man outside the courthouse where Bill Cosby was sentenced. Source: Getty Images
United States comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to a minimum of three years in prison for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. The 81-year-old is the first major celebrity convicted and sentenced for a sex crime since the downfall of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual harassment in the country and beyond.
United States comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to a minimum of three years in prison for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. The 81-year-old is the first major celebrity convicted and sentenced for a sex crime since the downfall of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual harassment in the country and beyond.
