Cosby deposition details sex, deceit

Comedian talked freely about his seductions of women in 2005 statement unsealed by court

Under oath and away from the TV cameras and the soapbox where he did his public moralizing, Bill Cosby sketched a very different image of America's Dad. He was a philanderer who plied young women with drugs, claimed to be adept at reading their unspoken desires and tried to keep "Mrs Cosby" in the dark.

The portrait comes from Cosby's own words in a transcript of a deposition taken in Philadelphia starting in 2005. It is the only publicly available testimony Cosby has given in response to accusations he drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women over four decades.