A civil jury in California on Monday awarded a woman nearly $60 million in damages over her civil case against actor Bill Cosby, concluding that he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1972.
In her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, 84-year-old Donna Motsinger said that when she served as a waitress in the 1970s, Cosby had given her wine and a pill that left her unable to move, per the Los Angeles Times. She said she woke up in only her underwear, and that "she knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby."
Jurors awarded her $17.5 million in past damages and $1.75 million for future damages, including "mental suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, inconvenience, grief, anxiety, humiliation, and emotional distress." She was awarded an additional $40 million in punitive damages following the second phase of the trial on Monday afternoon, per the Associated Press.