It's been half a year since New York Magazine began talking to 30 of the women who were allegedly molested by actor Bill Cosby decades ago. Today their latest issue was released, and 35 of the 46 women who have spoken out are surprisingly featured on the cover next to an empty chair to represent the others.
"This project began six months ago, when we started contacting the then-30 women who had publicly claimed Cosby assaulted them, and it snowballed in the same way that the initial accusations did: First two women signed on, then others heard about it and joined in, and so on," the journalist writes. "Just a few days before the story was published, we photographed the final two women, bringing our total to 35. 'I'm no longer afraid,' said Chelan Lasha, who came forward late last year to say that Cosby had drugged her when she was 17. 'I feel more powerful than him.'"
All of the woman featured have been interviewed individually. Their stories can be read here.
