--- title: Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations Against Actor description: Just because Bill Cosby admitted he gave Quaaludes to a woman he was in a consensual sexual relationship with in the 1970s does not mean... canonical: https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-22T03:09:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:27:28.970Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations og:description: "Quaaludes were a highly popular recreational drug in the 1970s" og:url: https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6a898e1c2e6996f/69885a8ecd1bba0fb86fc3c8/smithsonian-bill-cosb_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bill Cosby og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations twitter:description: "Quaaludes were a highly popular recreational drug in the 1970s" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6a898e1c2e6996f/69885a8ecd1bba0fb86fc3c8/smithsonian-bill-cosb_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations Against Actor > Sponsored content. 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There was a confidentiality agreement with that settlement but Troiani asked the judge to release Cosby’s deposition transcripts and Constand and Troiania from those confidentiality provisions which “defendant has chosen to ignore,” she wrote. “But for Cosby’s repeated violations of the confidentiality agreement and attempt to sway public opinion in his favor this motion would not have been necessary,” she wrote. “The release of these documents will assist other women who have been victimized and bring awareness to the fact that sexual assault is not just committed with a gun or knife but is also committed by mentors who engage in exploitative behaviors,” she wrote. O’Connor argues against unsealing the deposition, which was [obtained by _The New York Times_](http://www.people.com/article/bill-cosby-admits-affairs-drugs-deposition-released) via the court reporting service the attorneys used, and/or allowing it to be distributed to more members of the media. “The timing of plaintiff’s July 8, 2015 motion reflects an attempt on her part to ride on the coattails of the barrage of inaccurate and negative media attention that followed this court’s July 6, 2015 release of excerpts from the defendant’s deposition,” O’Connor wrote. “Plaintiff should be denied further relief and instead should be sanctioned,” he wrote. “The court should preserve what little benefit to defendant remains from the settlement agreement.” [_This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com_](http://www.people.com/article/bill-cosby-quaaludes-consensual-sex-sexual-assault) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/"},"headline":"Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations Against Actor","datePublished":"2015-07-22T03:09:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:27:28.970Z","description":"Just because Bill Cosby admitted he gave Quaaludes to a woman he was in a consensual sexual relationship with in the 1970s does not mean...","url":"https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6a898e1c2e6996f/69885a8ecd1bba0fb86fc3c8/smithsonian-bill-cosb_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nicole Weisensee Egan / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6a898e1c2e6996f/69885a8ecd1bba0fb86fc3c8/smithsonian-bill-cosb_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bill Cosby","caption":"Bill Cosby","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967102/bill-cosby-rape-quaaludes-attorney/","name":"Cosby Attorney Hits Back Amid Quaaludes Accusations Against Actor"}}]}] ```