Bill Cosby was protected by ruthless NBC executives who knew in the 1980s that their million-dollar man was a sick sexual predator! That’s the shocking claim made by network insiders who are breaking their silence after the disgraced star of “The Cosby Show” — which generated billions of dollars for NBC — was found guilty of sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania. And if the NBC brass hadn’t turned a blind eye to Cosby’s hush-money payments to other victims, said a stunned source, then the sicko star’s serial rape spree may have ended! “There’s no doubt they could have applied pressure to Cosby to get help and stop his behavior,” the whistleblower claimed. “They could have staged an intervention or suspended the show, but they were afraid of killing their golden goose!” And one veteran NBC employee even came forward with proof that he’d been used to help cover up Cosby’s sex-crazed scandals and to postpone the comic ending up with a ruined career…
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Cosby’s lawyers denied the charges. But, as Cosby became increasingly mired in scandal, one network source insisted: “NBC knew! Behind the scenes, it was well known
that payoffs were being made to some women to keep them from exposing the scandal!"
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One veteran NBC employee, Frank Scotti, claimed Cosby asked him to deliver monthly payouts to at least eight women in 1989 and 1990. Frank even provided copies of money orders made out in his name as evidence. [Cosby] was covering himself by having my name on it,” said Frank.
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A show insider claimed Cosby would pick up women “in front of castmates like Phylicia Rashad. It was absolutely sick!” Cosby’s TV wife, Phylicia, however, initially supported her former co-star, saying: “What you’re seeing is the destruction of a legacy. And I think it’s orchestrated.”
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Keshia Knight Pulliam — who played daughter "Rudy" on the hit sitcom —
even showed up at Cosby's side during his first sexual assault court case that ended in a mistrial! However, she then distanced herself from the second trial. "NBC's already caught up in the fallout of
Matt Lauer's sex scandals," added an insider, "but now Cosby's court case is another reminder that NBC has a sick history corporate history that shouldn't be forgotten!"
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Cosby’s lawyers denied the charges. But, as Cosby became increasingly mired in scandal, one network source insisted: “NBC knew! Behind the scenes, it was well known
that payoffs were being made to some women to keep them from exposing the scandal!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
One veteran NBC employee, Frank Scotti, claimed Cosby asked him to deliver monthly payouts to at least eight women in 1989 and 1990. Frank even provided copies of money orders made out in his name as evidence. [Cosby] was covering himself by having my name on it,” said Frank.
A show insider claimed Cosby would pick up women “in front of castmates like Phylicia Rashad. It was absolutely sick!” Cosby’s TV wife, Phylicia, however, initially supported her former co-star, saying: “What you’re seeing is the destruction of a legacy. And I think it’s orchestrated.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Keshia Knight Pulliam — who played daughter "Rudy" on the hit sitcom —
even showed up at Cosby's side during his first sexual assault court case that ended in a mistrial! However, she then distanced herself from the second trial. "NBC's already caught up in the fallout of
Matt Lauer's sex scandals," added an insider, "but now Cosby's court case is another reminder that NBC has a sick history corporate history that shouldn't be forgotten!"
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