How Bill Cosby went from 'America's dad' to convicted sex offender
Before his dramatic downfall, culminating in a guilty verdict, Cosby seemed to be at the peak of what had been an extraordinary public life
Bill Cosby came very close to cementing his legacy as America’s sweater-clad father figure and no-nonsense moral voice for the ages.
Instead he may die in a prison cell after being exposed as a criminal whom dozens of women say drugged and assaulted them while they were unconscious.
It’s a dramatic downfall for the man once known as “America’s dad” and star of what the Boston Globe has called“one of the most cherished comedies in television history”.
But the guilty verdicts he received on Thursday for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand also obscure the fact that he nearly got away with everything for which he was just convicted.
In the weeks and months before a by the comedian Hannibal Buress began
