Long-time Bill Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino has told of her devastation that 'serial sexual predator' Bill Cosby will be back on the streets after his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Speaking exclusively Valentino, a former Playboy model said 'I just heard and my stomach lurched. I'm so upset I can hardly find words.
'We had just gotten news that his parole had been denied and so we felt safe and now everything is upside down.'
Valentino was the sixteenth accuser to come forward, accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting her in Los Angeles in 1969.
She flew from her home in LA to witness both his trials and has been a vocal advocate for herself and fellow accusers.
Today she told DailyMail.com that she no longer feels safe knowing that the man she described as a 'serial sexual predator' is to walk free just three years after he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting former professional basketball player Andrea Constand.
Valentino said, 'What is a woman's worth? A legal glitch and now a serial sexual predator is free and I don't know how any of us who have spoken so publicly can feel safe.'
Long-time Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino has told of her devastation that the 'serial sexual predator' will be back on the streets
Bill Cosby, shown in the most recent picture taken in at the SCI Phoenix in Pennsylvania, will be released from prison on Wednesday
Valentino claims Cosby, a regular at Hugh Hefner's club on the Sunset Strip, drugged her and a friend at dinner in Hollywood before driving them to a nearby apartment.
According to Valentino she pulled Cosby away from her unconscious friend as he tried to rape her - provoking the entertainer to launch an attack on her instead.
Valentino, a former Playboy Playmate, said 'I just heard and my stomach lurched. I'm so upset I can hardly find words'
Cosby will be released from prison today after Pennsylvania's Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction in a surprise decision, ruling that testimony from five women who told a jury that he'd abused them on separate occasions over 30 years impeded his chances of a fair trial.
The Justices also ruled that a promise by Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor that he was not going to prosecute Cosby led the comedian to make incriminating comments in a civil deposition, that prosecutors ended up using to make their case against him.
Cosby, 83, is expected to be released from the SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township later today.
In their 79-page ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices gave two reasons for overturning the conviction;
1) Testimony from five women who had nothing to do with the charges but who said he'd abused them on other occasions was unfair to Cosby and tainted the jury so they were more likely to find him guilty
2) A public remark by Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor that he was not going to prosecute Cosby led him to make incriminating comments in a civil deposition, that prosecutors later used to make their case against him.
Cosby was first arrested in 2015 on suspicion of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2004. It was two weeks before the statute of limitations would have rendered her claims expired.
Constand first reported her allegations to the police in 2005. It triggered an investigation which was made public.
In September 1963, 19-year-old Victoria Valentino was chosen as the Playmate of the Month
Cosby, 83, is expected to be released from the SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township later today
'We had just gotten news that his parole had been denied and so we felt safe and now everything is upside down,' Valentino added
But on February 17, 2005, Montgomery County DA Bruce Castor Jr. announced he would not be prosecuting Cosby. Constand then filed a civil lawsuit and it was in a deposition for that lawsuit that Cosby admitted using Quaaludes on women to try to get them to have sex with him.
Over the next ten years, multiple women come forward in the press and civil lawsuits to accuse him but it wasn't until 2015 that he was charged. He was charged two weeks before the statute of limitations would have rendered Constand's claims expired. All of the other claims are too old to be prosecuted.
In 2018, he was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to between three and ten years behind bars.
Constand testified at his trial along with five others who spoke about their own allegations against him.
Those women were Chelan Lasha, Janice Baker Kinney, Janice Dickinson, Lise-Lottw Lublin and Heidi Thomas.
When Cosby, 83, was sentenced for his crimes against Constand, the other accusers seized it as their own justice too. The disgraced comedian always fought his conviction, despite admitting in a deposition that he used Quaaludes on women, without their knowledge, with the hope of later having sex with them.
He was sentenced to between three and ten years but he vowed to serve the full ten because anything less would have required him to express remorse.
Now, lawyers from other trials may seize on the Cosby decision to undo their client's convictions.
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