Bill Cosby: Court Date For Playboy Mansion Sexual Assault Case

Bill Cosby is going back to court — over accusations of raping Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was only 15 years old!

The disgraced comic (seen here with longtime pal Hugh Hefner) is now facing a July 30, 2018, court date. Judy is suing Cosby for emotional distress and sexual battery, saying that he drugged her at Hefner's headquarters in Los Angeles in 1974 — when she was only 15 years old!

The lawsuit claims that Judy and a 16-year-old pal first met Cosby at a movie shoot. A week later, they escorted him to the mansion, where Cosby reportedly plied the teens with alcohol. Judy said that she emerged from a bathroom and Cosby asked her to sit beside him on a bed, where he tried to “put his hand down her pants…without her consent.”

The statute of limitations has expired on criminal charges, but Judy's lawyers are taking advantage of a loophole in California law — allowing a suit to be filed because their client became traumatized by the alleged assault within the last three years.

A desperate Cosby tried a shocking new tactic in dismissing the lawsuit — as his lawyers said the alleged victim missed her chance to file charges! Cosby's attorneys wanted Judge Craig Karlan to rule that Judy waited too long between realizing the damage caused by the "traumatic incident" and filing the lawsuit.

The trial date was set for 2018 over expectations that Cosby will soon face a new jury in Pennsylvania after a mistrial was declared on charges that he raped Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby has already given depositions in the Huth case, but — unlike in the Constand case — those statements have not been made public.

Cosby's original lawyer, Marty Singer, had denied the charges, and said that Judy's lawyer had once tried to extort Cosby for $250,000. The comic recently hired new lawyer Christopher "Son of Mel" Tayback, who's also representing Cosby against California lawsuits filed by Chloe Goins (who also claims she was assaulted at the Playboy Mansion) and model Janice Dickinson.