Cosby Shows Cancelled Amid New Accusations

Bill Cosby's shows at casinos in Las Vegas and Arizona have been cancelled as more women come forward to allege he sexually assaulted them years ago.

Officials at the Treasure Island hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip said they mutually agreed with the comedian to cancel his 28 November gig.

No reason was given by the Diamond Desert casino in Tucson, Arizona, for scrapping his show next February.

But Cosby was still scheduled to perform on Friday night to a sold-out theatre in Melbourne, Florida.

Dozens of other shows are still on the schedule through to May next year.

A model-actress is the latest woman to accuse the 77-year-old of sexually assaulting her.

Angela Leslie, 52, told the New York Daily News she was invited to meet the star in 1992 after writing a letter to him, and he asked her to perform an audition.

She said the entertainer poured her an alcoholic beverage in his Las Vegas luxury hotel suite, asking her to drink it and pretend she was drunk.

He then took off his clothes and got into bed before forcing her to fondle him, she alleged.

Cosby's lawyer dismissed the new claims as "fantastical" and said it was "long past time for this media vilification of Mr Cosby to stop".

The comedian has never been charged in relation to any of the allegations.

Louisa Moritz, who starred in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, told TMZ on Thursday Cosby sexually assault her in a dressing room in New York in 1971, after promising to make her a star.

Therese Serignese, a Florida nurse, came forward on Thursday to say Cosby drugged and raped her in 1976 when she was 19 years old backstage after a show in Las Vegas.

Carla Ferrigno, wife of The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, says Cosby made a "physically violent" pass at her in 1967 at his Los Angeles home, but she rebuffed him.

Joan Tarshis said on Monday she was a 19-year-old who wanted to be a comedy writer when Cosby gave her a drink and assaulted her.

Barbara Bowman, a former aspiring actress, wrote in the Washington Post this month that Cosby drugged and attacked her when she was a teenager. The Cosby camp called those allegations "discredited".

Linda Joy Traitz says she fought Cosby off after he pushed himself on her when she was a teenage waitress in Los Angeles, after offering her pills "to relax". Cosby's lawyer has pointed out she has a criminal record.

Tamara Green has restated a 2005 allegation that Cosby drugged and tried to assault her. His lawyers have previously denied they knew each other.

Andrea Constand, a college athlete, said she was drugged and assaulted by the star in January 2004 at his Pennsylvania home. Cosby settled a civil suit with her.

Janice Dickinson says Cosby gave her red wine and a pill before attacking her in a California hotel room in 1982. Cosby's lawyer said it was a "complete lie".

Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, said in a statement: "The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity.

"These brand new claims about alleged decades-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous, and it is completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports to law enforcement or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of so many years.

"Lawsuits are filed against people in the public eye every day.

"There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they allege they had been sexually assaulted.

"This situation is an unprecedented example of the media’s breakneck rush to run stories without any corroboration or adherence to traditional journalistic standards.

"Over and over again, we have refuted these new unsubstantiated stories with documentary evidence, only to have a new uncorroborated story crop up out of the woodwork. When will it end?

"It is long past time for this media vilification of Mr Cosby to stop."