Bill Cosby was found liable Monday for drugging and sexually assaulting former waitress Donna Motsinger in 1972, with a jury awarding her a total of $59.25 million in damages, as reported by Fox News.

The verdict includes $17.5 million for past mental trauma, $1.75 million for future mental suffering, and $40 million in punitive damages.

Cosby, now 88, was accused of assaulting Motsinger more than five decades ago while she worked as a server at The Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California.

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According to court documents, Motsinger alleged that Cosby, a regular at the restaurant, “followed her” home and later invited her to attend one of his shows at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California.

He picked her up in a limousine and gave her a “glass of wine in the limo along the way,” the complaint stated.

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The lawsuit claims Cosby was filming his stand-up act for “Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby” at the time. Motsinger said that once inside the dressing room, she began to feel ill, and Cosby gave her what she believed was an aspirin.

“Next thing she knew, she was going in and out of consciousness while two men attending to Mr. Cosby were putting her in the limousine with Mr. Cosby,” the complaint stated.

“In the limousine, Mr. Cosby sat near the window and put his arms around her. The last thing Ms. Motsinger recalls were flashes of light.”

Motsinger alleged that she later “woke up in her house with all her clothes off, except her underwear on – no top, no bra, and no pants. She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.”

Her complaint stated that she “suffered economic and non-economic damages to the maximum extent allowed by law, including but not limited to the lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and any other remedy available at law.”

Motsinger also brought claims against Cosby’s production company, Jemmin, Inc., and the Circle Star Theater. Court documents stated, “Jemmin, Inc. is vicariously liable for Mr. Cosby’s sexual battery as Jemmin, Inc. authorized and ratified the sexual battery through Mr. Cosby himself.”

The filing further alleged, “Jemmin, Inc. is guilty of fraud, oppression, and malice for the sexual battery of Ms. Motsinger at the hands of Cosby.”

The Circle Star Theater, which is no longer in business, was also accused of failing to intervene.

“Employees and agents of Circle Star Theater knew or should have known of the dangerous, drugged, and sedated state that Ms. Motsinger was in and should have rendered care and aid to Ms. Motsinger,” the complaint stated.

Motsinger was among 12 anonymous “Jane Does” who testified in a 2005 civil case brought by former Temple University athletics director Andrea Constand, which was later settled out of court.

Cosby’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said in an email to The Associated Press that the defense is disappointed by the verdict and intends to appeal.

Cosby was released from prison in 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his 2018 criminal conviction. He had served more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence related to a 2004 case in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.

The court ruled that District Attorney Kevin Steele violated a prior agreement not to prosecute Cosby that had been made by former District Attorney Bruce Castor in 2005.

In June 2022, a separate jury found Cosby sexually abused Judith Huth in 1975 at the Playboy Mansion. Another lawsuit was filed in June by former Playboy model Victoria Valentino, who alleged Cosby drugged and raped her in 1969.

Best known for “The Cosby Show,” Cosby has maintained his innocence.