L.A. prosecutor declines to file charges against Bill Cosby

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday it investigated a woman's claim that she was drugged and assaulted by Bill Cosby in 2008 at the Playboy Mansion, and will not file criminal charges against him.

Chloe Goins, 25, said that when she was 18, Cosby gave her a drink while at a party at the Playboy Mansion on Aug. 9, 2008, and she immediately felt sick, People reports. She said Cosby escorted her to her room, and when she woke up, she wasn't wearing any clothes, and Cosby was biting one of her toes. Investigators said they looked at security footage from the mansion and did not see Cosby or Goins, and also said they had evidence that Cosby was in New York that weekend.

The prosecutor also declined to bring charges against Cosby regarding claims by a woman who said he drugged and raped her in 1965, saying the statute of limitations expired. On Dec. 30, 2015, Cosby was charged with aggravated indecent assault after former Temple University employee Andrea Constand accused Cosby of drugging and assaulting her at his house in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, in 2004.

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