Janice Dickinson tells jury Cosby raped her

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Model Janice Dickinson is telling a jury that Bill Cosby raped her after giving her a pill he claimed would help her with menstrual cramps.

Dickinson is the fourth accuser to take the witness stand at Cosby's sex assault retrial in suburban Philadelphia. She told jurors Thursday she was "rendered motionless" by the pill as Cosby got on top of her in his Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room.

Dickinson was 27 at the time and says she felt vaginal pain. After waking up the next morning, she says she noticed semen between her legs.

Cosby's defense lawyers are challenged model Dickinson over her testimony that the comedian raped her in 1982.

Defense attorney Tom Mesereau seized on discrepancies between Dickinson's testimony Thursday and what she wrote in her 2002 autobiography about the encounter with Cosby in a hotel room in Lake Tahoe, California.

Dickinson says she wrote about the assault in her book, but Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details. She says she went along because she needed the money.

Dickinson told Cosby's lawyer she "wasn't under oath" when she wrote the book like she is now.

Prosecutors are calling Dickinson and other accusers to the witness stand to show the 80-year-old comedian has a history of drugging and molesting women.

Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. He says it was consensual. His first trial ended in a hung jury.

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