Bill Cosby’s lawyers will ask a judge to order the accuser in his criminal sex assault case to refund the money he paid to settle her lawsuit a decade ago.
Cosby argues that accuser Andrea Constand violated their confidential agreement by speaking to police who reopened the case last year.
A federal judge will hear arguments Friday afternoon in the breach-of-contract suit he filed before a key hearing in his criminal case in February.
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Constand’s lawyers say Cosby is trying to harass their client. And they say his agents have issued frequent comments about the sex abuse allegations.
Meanwhile, the 78-year-old actor is due in state court near Philadelphia next week for the latest hearing in the criminal case.
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He denies charges that he drugged and molested Constand in 2004.
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