In a filing on Thursday, Cosby’s attorney Patrick J. O’Connor said that Andrea Constand has violated their confidentiality agreement.
Cosby in May 2015
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A lawyer for Bill Cosby blamed Andrea Constand and her lawyer, Dolores Troiani, on Thursday of violating their settlement agreement after she accused him of sexual abuse nearly a decade ago – and part of the evidence included four of Constand's tweets.
In a motion filed in federal court in Pennsylvania, Patrick J. O'Connor said the 2006 settlement agreement required both Constand and her lawyers to keep details of the litigation quiet, "including the requirement to keep depositions and other documents confidential."
"Far from using their 'best efforts' to ensure compliance with the confidentiality provisions, Plaintiff and her counsel appear to have made no effort whatsoever. Such a cavalier attitude to [is] in direct violation of the confidentiality
provisions to which she freely consented," O'Connor wrote.
The most "egregious" breach, he wrote, was the release of a full deposition by a court reporter service, obtained by The New York Times. "It appears that neither Plaintiff nor her counsel ever bothered to tell her court reporter to treat Defendant's deposition as confidential," O'Connor write.
The paper published portions of the deposition in which Cosby admitted under oath that he had given quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with. The Times has declined to publish the full deposition and has no plans to do so, according to a statement provided to Philadelphia magazine on Thursday.
O'Connor said in court filings that Constand and Troiani have since engaged in a "campaign against him in the public eye."
Part of Constand's alleged breach, O'Connor wrote Thursday, were these four posts to her Twitter account:
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