Amid his ongoing sexual assault trial, a woman named Autumn claims she is the daughter of the 'Bill Cosby Show' star.
- Jun 8, 2017
AceShowbiz - Bill Cosby's alleged love child has gone public. A woman named Autumn Berkes claims she is the daughter of the former "Bill Cosby Show" star and "a tall, striking twenty-year old brunette" named Shawn Berkes, according to the book "Cosby: His Life And Times" by Mark Whitaker.
Bill reportedly met Shawn back in 1970. "My sex life with Bill was just part of our friendship. It had evolved into a sexual relationship. It was consensual," Shawn says, adding that she and Bill continued an affair for 10 months, until one weekend in 1973.
"Finding himself alone in Vegas for a month, Cosby called Shawn Berkes again," reads the book, as quoted by Radar Online, "He invited her to join him for another rendezvous at the Hilton. But when Berkes arrived at his suite on the thirtieth floor, she had a surprise. She reached into her purse and pulled out a photo of a fourteen-month-old baby, a little girl with curly hair and olive skin named Autumn. 'This is your daughter,' Berkes said."
According to the book, Bill denied his paternity, but Autumn tried to blackmail her "dad." In 1997, she was arrested on extortion charges for demanding Bill pay her $24 million over claims she was his daughter. She was ultimately sentenced to 26 months in prison.
"When news of the arrest first broke, Cosby's spokesmen insisted that he barely knew Jackson," Mark writes, "They admitted that he had paid for Autumn's college tuition for a year and set up a fund for other expenses, but they described her as just one of the hundreds of young people Cosby had helped put through school."
During an interview with Dan Rather, Bill admitted he had has sex with Shawn and that there was "a possibility" he was Autumn's father.
