--- description: Former model Janice Dickinson has accused Bill Cosby of sex assault and said the 1982 incident occurred in Lake Tahoe title: Former Model Janice Dickinson Accuses Bill Cosby of Sex Assault image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e1f9a7c0d4294ba/69876979e20a871c1aa836dd/janice-dickinson1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Former Model Janice Dickinson Accuses Bill Cosby of Sex Assault by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 19, 2014 11:48 AM CUT  Janice Dickinson attends the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014 at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on Feb. 9, 2014 in New York. Janice Dickinson attends the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014 at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on Feb. 9, 2014 in New York.Michael Loccisano—Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 19, 2014 11:48 AM CUT Model and TV host Janice Dickinson is adding her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby of sexual assault. In an “Entertainment Tonight” interview that aired Tuesday, Dickinson said that the 1982 incident occurred in Lake Tahoe, California, where he was performing. Dickinson told “Entertainment Tonight” that she wrote about the assault in her 2002 autobiography, but that Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details. She said her new account is a “true story.” Cosby’s attorney, Marty Singer, blasted the assault allegation as a “complete lie.” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/former-model-janice-dickinson-accuses-bill-cosby-sex-assault-n251361 "undefined") _Read next:_ [_Here’s Everything We Know (and Don’t Know) About the Bill Cosby Rape Allegations_](http://time.com/3592547/bill-cosby-rape-allegations-timeline/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/"},"headline":"Former Model Janice Dickinson Accuses Bill Cosby of Sex Assault","datePublished":"2014-11-19T11:48:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:18.328Z","description":"Dickinson said 1982 incident occurred in Lake Tahoe","url":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/","keywords":["Living","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e1f9a7c0d4294ba/69876979e20a871c1aa836dd/janice-dickinson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e1f9a7c0d4294ba/69876979e20a871c1aa836dd/janice-dickinson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Janice Dickinson","caption":"Janice Dickinson attends the Katya Zol fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014 at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on Feb. 9, 2014 in New York.","creditText":"Michael Loccisano—Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week","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":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/","name":"Former Model Janice Dickinson Accuses Bill Cosby of Sex Assault"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Bill Cosby's Image Issues","description":"Bill Cosby's Image Issues","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3EBzX0OF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-11-15T19:22:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3EBzX0OF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/","duration":"PT1M42S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3594289/janice-dickinson-bill-cosby-accuse-assault/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```