Attorney-to-the-stars Tom Mesereau laid into legal adversary Bill Cosby‘s sex assault retrial, repeatedly questioning a witness about Allred’s suggested $100 million fund for the comedian’s accusers.
“If [Allred] puts this $100 million fund together, she gets 30 to 40 percent of it, correct?” Mesereau asked accuser Janice Baker-Kinney, who says she was raped by Cosby in Reno in 1982.
“I don’t know what her percentage would be, you would have to ask her,” the 60-year-old California stage manager responded.
Allred, who represents a number of Cosby accusers — including three of the women who have taken the stand as part of the entertainer’s criminal retrial — has in the past suggested Cosby cough up the millions to be distributed among the almost 60 women who have alleged he drugged and molested or raped them.
The well-known advocate, and recent subject of a namesake Netflix documentary, sat smiling in a trademark pink pantsuit in the second row of the gallery Thursday.
Cosby, 80, faces three charges of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and molesting former Temple University administrator Andrea Constand in his Cheltenham, Pa., home in 2004.