Frank Scotti, an old-school NBC employee who worked as facilities manager at the studio where The Cosby Show was recorded in the '80s and '90s, sat down with the New York Daily News to shed some light, he claims, on what beloved TV dad Bill Cosby was up to back then.
In a nutshell: the married Cosby was paying off various lovers, setting them up in apartments via Donald Trump's brother, and spending a lot of alone with models in his dressing room while Scotti stood guard, according to the 90-year-old retiree.
Scotti, who worked with Cosby in 1989 and 1990, described being tasked by Cosby to deliver payments of thousands of dollars to eight different women. Sometimes, Scotti told the News, he received the money as a satchel filled with hundred dollar bills.
“I did a lot of crazy things for him,” recalled Scotti. “He was covering himself by having my name on (money orders). It was a coverup. I realized it later.”
Scotti also detailed a hookup Cosby had with a New York modeling agency, claiming the agency's owner would bring a group of young women to Cosby's dressing room, some as young as teenagers. According to Scotti, Cosby would pick a woman out of the group.
“‘I want you to keep that one girl here,’ ” Scotti told the News Cosby would say. “ ‘I want to interview her for a part in the show.’”
“The owner (of the modeling agency) just walked right out. She knew exactly what was going to go on. Then (Cosby)’d tell me, ‘Stand outside the door and don’t let anyone in.’ Now you put that together and figure (out) why.”
Despite the many rape allegations against him, Cosby is continuing to tour doing stand-up. He even got a standing ovation in Florida a couple days ago.
[Via New York Daily News]
