LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) – Walt Disney World officials say a bronze statue of Bill Cosby is being removed from the Hollywood Studios theme park.
Local news outlets report the statue was being removed after the park closed last night. Disney offered no other comment.
The removal of the statute at Disney’s Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza came after court documents unsealed on Monday revealed that Cosby testified in 2005 that he’d obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with.
The 77-year-old Cosby hasn’t commented on the documents, which were secret for a decade until Monday, after The Associated Press went to court to get them released. He has never been charged with a crime and has repeatedly denied sexual assault allegations.
Los Angeles police say they are still investigating a model’s allegations that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008.
Officer Jane Kim said Wednesday that its inquiry into model Chloe Goins’ allegations against Cosby is ongoing. No further details were available about the case, which is the only one the department is actively investigating against the 77-year-old comedian.
Police opened their investigation in January after Goins met with detectives at the department’s downtown Los Angeles headquarters.
Goins says Cosby drugged and accosted her in a bedroom of the mansion in August 2008. Cosby’s attorney, however, released a statement denying his client was in Los Angeles at the time.