Cosby quizzed on ability to 'read' women

Andrea Constand, who accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her, has filed legal papers questioning the comic's ability to 'read' women's sexual cues.

The accuser in the only sex assault case that Bill Cosby has settled is questioning his self-proclaimed ability to "read" women's cues in sexual situations.

Andrea Constand's lawyer claims in court papers filed on Tuesday that Cosby didn't recognise the Temple University employee he befriended was gay. Constand testified she was dating a woman at the time.

The parties in Constand's 2005 sexual battery case against Cosby now accuse each other of breaking the confidentiality clause.

Constand accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her at his Philadelphia-area home. More than two dozen women have since made similar accusations.

Cosby in his deposition released this month says he considered his relationship with Constand consensual and called himself "a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things."


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