According to a new report on NewYorkDailyNews, staffers working on The Late Show with David Letterman are breathing a collective sigh of relief after it was announced they don't have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance.
As historic sexual assault allegations against Cosby continue to resurface, his next scheduled appearance with Letterman was cancelled. And the ladies got talking that the comic star had some truly bizarre backstage requests.
Sources told the New York Daily News the 77-year-old would demand that 'young girls, interns and
assistants' sit down and watch him eat curry backstage in the Green Room before the interviews.
They described how no one would say anything, but the comedian allegedly would still make them stay until he finished his meal. He last appeared on the CBS talk show in January.
The employees told the paper that producers would make them do it because 'that's what he (Cosby) wanted', even though they admitted not liking the pre-show scenario.
The revelations come as Cosby's 'fixer' for NBC claimed that he helped the funnyman channel star funnel thousands of dollars to a virtual harem of young women he kept as the The Cosby Show was filmed.
Frank Scotti, 90, told the Daily News on Sunday that he acted as a conduit through whom the actor sent lady pals funds and as a guard at Cosby's dressing room door when those women visited.
After decades, Scotti's even saved receipts from money orders he says he gave those women for Cosby. One of those women, Shawn Thompson, had a daughter named Autumn Jackson who would claim Cosby was her father.
In recent days, 15 women have gone public accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them. His lawyer Martin Singer has branded the stories 'increasingly ridiculous' and 'passed the point of absurdity.
In a statement released on Friday, he said:
'The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity.
These brand new claims about alleged decades-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous, and it is completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports to law enforcement or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of so many years.'
Bill Cosby, who has been performing on stage despite the resurgence of allegations, has remained silent.
