NBC, Carsey-Warner and Kaufman Astoria did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit was filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, passed last month, which gives adult survivors of sexual abuse a one-year window to sue their abusers even if the statute of limitations on their claims has expired. The law mirrors the state's Child Victims Act of 2019, which similarly opened a two-year window for child sex abuse survivors to sue their abusers. That law yielded about 10,600 lawsuits, including a prominent case against Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.
The idea of the lookback window is that many victims of sexual abuse take years to publicly speak about their traumas, and this law would give them an opportunity to finally have their day in court.The allegations in Monday's lawsuit mirror longstanding accusations against Cosby, the 85-year-old comedian and actor once known as "America's Dad" for his public persona as an upstanding father figure., in New Jersey and Nevada in 1990 and at his Manhattan home in 1991.