Bill Cosby in a Dec. 30, 2015 booking photo released by the Cheltenham Township, PA Police Department(MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Penn.) — Bill Cosby has dropped a breach of contract lawsuit he filed in February against Andrea Constand, the woman at the center of his sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, as well as her lawyers, her mother and the publisher of the National Enquirer.
In a statement provided to ABC News, Cosby’s new attorney, Angela Argusa, said in a statement, “Last week, Judge Robreno denied in substantial part the motions to dismiss filed by American Media, Inc. (publisher of the National Enquirer), Andrea Constand, and her lawyers. With a court validation of his ability to proceed forward in that action to protect his own rights, Mr. Cosby has today stepped away from that suit and will instead focus his efforts on defending himself against the claims that have been lodged against him.”
The defendants were subject to confidentiality clauses that were part of a settlement of lawsuits brought by Constand against Cosby and the National Enquirer in 2005.
Cosby was charged in December with aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Constand in 2004.
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